Skills
Protect Self and Others
- Comply with acts, regulations, codes, standards and directives
- Identify health and safety hazards in the workplace
- Use personal protective equipment
- Maintain personal protective equipment
- Practice safe work habits
- Follow company or worksite fire procedures
- Use emergency safety equipment
- Practice good housekeeping in the workplace
- Handle designated substances
- Lift and carry materials
- Conduct pre- operational check of equipment
- Report injuries to supervisor or first aid personnel
- Employ simple first aid relating to illness and occupational injury
- Lock out, tag and de-energize mechanical equipment
- Control dust and toxic material emissions
Select Lumber and other Raw Materials
- Select lumber
- Select panel products
- Select veneers
- Select plastic laminates
- Store materials
Interpret Drawings, Prepare Sketches, and Perform Costing
- Interpret shop or technical drawings and specifications
- Prepare sketches and drawings
- Calculate cost of finished product
- Assess job site conditions
- Calculate finishing requirements
- Prepare documentation
- Prepare a job estimate report
- Cost out a simple unit
- Integrate cabinet structural requirements
Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
- Select hand tools and attachments
- Use hand tools and attachments
- Maintain hand tools and attachments
- Select portable power tools and attachments
- Use portable power tools and attachments
- Maintain portable power tools and attachments,
- Select stationary power equipment
- Use stationary power equipment
- Maintain stationary power equipment
Create and Use Jigs, Fixtures and Templates
- Identify the need for jigs, fixtures and templates
- Design jigs, fixtures and templates
- Construct jigs, fixtures and templates
- Test, adjust and verify jigs, fixtures, templates, parts and components
- Use and layout template
Operate and Maintain Break-out Machinery and Panel Processing Equipment
- Use solid-wood break-out machinery
- Maintain solid- wood break-out machinery
- Use panel-sizing equipment
- Maintain panel- sizing equipment
- Remove lumber material defects
- Set up and assemble tooling
- Monitor tooling performance
- Glue up panels
- Evaluate machining quality
Operate and Maintain Equipment for Veneer, Non-wood Laminate, Polymer and Specialty Overlap Application
- Select veneer material and core material
- Set up veneer equipment
- Operate veneer equipment
- Maintain veneer equipment
- Select non-wood laminates and core material
- Glue non-wood laminate to core with adhesive
- Trim non-wood laminate
- Select specialty overlay material and core
- Bond specialty overlay to core with adhesive
- Trim specialty overlay
- Select solid polymers
- Fabricate solid polymers
Perform Finishing Machining
- Identify machinery requirements
- Lay-out or detail parts and label orientation
- Select and operate traditional, complex and computerized machinery
- Prepare solid wood and solid polymers prior to machining
- Cut materials including solid wood, veneers, non-wood laminates, specialty overlays, and solid polymers
- Identify the need for servicing, removing, replacing
- Fabricate machine jigs, fixtures, patterns, forms or templates
- Maintain efficient organization
Perform Sanding
- Select sanding machines
- Set up sanding machines
- Operate sanding machines
- Maintain sanding machines
- Select abrasive belts
- Set-up abrasive belts
- Operate abrasive belts
- Maintain abrasive belts
- Produce mould blocking
- Sand component parts
Perform Sub-Assembly, Assembly and Pre-Finish Operations
- Select adhesives for application to cabinet components
- Apply adhesives to cabinet components
- Select fastening devices
- Arrange and use fastening devices
- Maintain fastening devices
- Design sub- assembly and assembly jigs and fixtures
- Construct sub- assembly and assembly jigs and fixtures
- Apply sub- assembly and assembly jigs and fixtures
- Select/collect appropriate or specified hardware
- Install hardware and fasteners and fit
- Perform pre-finish operations
- Inspect and clean plastic laminate
Perform Finishing or Re-Finishing Operations
- Create a structured finishing procedure
- Construct a control step-panel
- Select finishing materials
- Mix finishing materials
- Apply finishing materials
- Polish the finish
- Maintain finishing equipment
Trim and Pack Units
- Select fasteners and hardware
- Install hardware
- Assess finished product for quality assurance
- Package the product for shipping
Perform Specialized Operations
- Build stairs and balustrades
- Machine stair and balustrade components
- Assemble stairs and balustrades
- Restore and refinish cabinetry or millwork to original condition
- Create decorative woodwork
Install Cabinetry and Mill Work
- Modify cabinetry and millwork to site conditions
- Install architectural millwork
- Install cabinets and countertops
- Protect woodwork during construction
For more information, see Ontario College of Trades Training Standards
