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Progression of skills and expectations from beginner to contractor
- Show up on time / do what you say you will do
- Learn not to “scare the clients”
- Learn what it means to be safe on the job
- Teach more experienced guys – you will do this just by being a beginner and asking questions
- Do as told (this will include cleaning up, moving materials, fetching things and demolition) while paying attention to what else in going on around you
- Get to know more experienced guys
- Learn flow of job and how to move around on a construction site
- Begin to look for things that you think you might be able to do
- Ask to try things or ask if there is anything that you could try
- Begin to do simple carpentry tasks (cutting, framing simple walls, shoe mold, baseboard)
- Start collecting and learning how to use tools
- Listen to or pay attention to conversations involving planning, problem solving and plan reading
- Start to pay attention to the next few days plan and the order in which things happen
- Begin teaching new guys
- Add more complicated carpentry skills (roof and stair framing, hanging doors, hardware)
- Pay attention to and start learning about other trades
- Layout framing
- Plan reading
- Begin learning how long tasks take
- Learn all the facets of carpentry
- Begin thinking one week ahead
- Begin ordering materials
- Conversations and decision making with clients
- Communicating with other tradesmen
- Coordinating with subcontractors / other trades (how a house goes together)
- Begin taking responsibility for the job – start with the jobsite at the end of the day
- Continue learning from and teaching younger guys
- Learn scheduling – trades and plans – and how much time to allow
- Phone calls to schedule subs
- Begin thinking one month ahead
- Communicate with clients, subcontractors, architects, project manager, and crew
- Manage construction documents, information and bookkeeping
- Gather information ahead of needs – decisions, selections, drawings
- Begin negotiating with clients – schedule, planning
- Refine skills of “don’t scare the client”
- Full responsibility for the job
- Help project manager with estimating
- Learn regulations – inspections and install requirements
- Estimating
- Information from outside the job
- Think one year ahead
- Working and thinking away from the job
- Team development – employees, subs, clients, design team
- Billing / bookkeeping / invoices
- Taxes / insurance
- Contract negotiations
- Compliance – permits, HOA, etc.
- Hiring
- Development – future work, new relationships
- Professional team development
- Time horizon of one to three years
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