WORK PROCESS
CARPENTER, PILE DRIVER
O*NET/SOC CODE: 47-2031.02 RAPIDS CODE: 1009
Description: Sets up power and hand tools necessary to prepare specific pilings. Lays out
from blueprints and/or site plans the exact location of where the pilings will be drive. prepares the piling to be driven, and assists in positioning and driving the piling. Dresses and caps the pilings after having been driven, and prepares them to receive the superstructure. Performs site preparation for installation of various concrete and wood structures. Builds the form work for concrete structure, and constructs the timber fasework for all kinds of structures. May perform light framing and finish work.
ON-THE-JOB TRAINING
APPROXIMATE HOURS
1. Tools and Materials
200
2. Layout
300
3. Pile driving equipment — hammers, leads and rigs, motors and pumps
500
4. Rigging and signaling
400
5. Driving of piles — wood, concrete, steel, etc.
1000
6. Coffer dams and caissons
300
7. Bridge, dock and wharf construction
800
8. Heavy timber construction
400
9. Care and maintenance of tools and equipment
200
10. Form building
1200
11. Rough framing
1200
12. Welding
500
13. Diving and diver tending
500
14. Miscellaneous — safety, scaffolding, shoring, etc.
500
TOTAL HOURS
8000
RELATED INSTRUCTION:
Accident prevention, first aid, safety hazards, State and federal safety codes and regulations. Safety courses per the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. department of Labor
A. Basic mathematics
B. Blueprint reading
C. Pile driver equipment and materials:
1. Pile drivers
a) Floating of water drivers:
i. Construction
ii. Rigging: anchors, lines, buoys, hammer line, pile line, jet rigging, lead rigging, deck winches, and rigger heads
b) Skid drivers: construction, rigging, skidways
c) Crane with swinging leads
d) Swinging leads from marine stiffleg derrick
2. Hammers and leads (drop, steam, pneumatic diesel):
a) Hammer rigging
b) Lead construction (stationary, swinging, pendulum, false, pile extractors).
3. Tools: drilling and setting with long augers
4. Piling:
a) Material: wood; treated wood; steel H. tube and sheet; concrete, cutoffs
b) Driving of material: driving to bearing, jetting
5. Rigging: building sections, stressed beams, knots, hitches, and splices (manila and wire), stiff legs, gin pole, shear legs, mobile cranes, righting capsized drivers
6. Excavations and shoring excavations
7. Form building
8. Construction and releasing of false work
9. Construction of coffer dams: steel sheet piling, wood construction, sealing of coffer dams, removal
10. Construction of wood trestles: truss types, heavy framing
11. Constructing bridges — overpasses, underpasses: abutments, sills, columns, vertical curves and supers, beams (cast in place; precast; pre-stressed and post-stressed)
12. Dock building: wood, concrete
13. Float and pontoon
14. Safety course per the Occupational Safety and Health administration, U.S. Department of Labor
15. Welding and burning
16. Construction of engines, jets, jet pumps, bilge pumps, etc.
