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Carpenter resume examples

Trades Carpentry Jobs · 6 designs · Word & PDF · Free

6 resume examples for Carpenter roles in Trades Carpentry, in Achievement Led, Editorial and Executive Classic layouts. Each is a complete, formatted document — open it in Word, replace the content with your own, and export a PDF when you are done. Free to download.

6 Carpenter resume designs

Every design covers the same sections, so the choice is about how the page looks. Open one to preview it full size and download it.

Carpenter resume example, in full

This is the text of the Achievement Led design shown above — a sample, not a real person’s CV. Copy it as a starting scaffold and replace every line with your own experience.

Rebecca F. Furman

Journeyman Finish Carpenter

Tacoma, WA · (253) 555 0118 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/rebeccaffurman

Key Qualifications

EXPERIENCE

Nine years in residential remodeling, four of them as a journeyman finish carpenter

INDUSTRIES

Custom home remodeling, historic bungalow renovation, small multifamily

SPECIALTIES

Custom millwork, stair building, cabinet and countertop setting, interior trim

SYSTEMS

Buildertrend, Bluebeam Revu, SketchUp, Microsoft Excel

CREDENTIALS

Registered apprenticeship completion, Occupational Safety and Health Administration ten hour card, Lead Safe Renovator certification

EDUCATION

Associate degree in construction technology, Bates Technical College

Executive Summary

Journeyman finish carpenter with nine years in high end residential remodeling around the South Puget Sound. Completed a registered apprenticeship, then moved from framing into custom millwork, stair systems and cabinetry setting. Known for tight reveals, short punch lists and very few callbacks on work homeowners look at every day.

Signature Achievements

  • Brought punch list counts on twelve custom remodels from an average of nineteen items down to six.
  • Built and installed forty three stair sets across four years with no rework charged back to the company.
  • Cut trim material waste from eleven percent to four percent by cutting to a shop list instead of guessing in the field.
  • Trained three apprentices who each passed their second year skill evaluation on schedule.
  • Held callbacks under two percent through a two year run of kitchen and bath installations.

Professional Experience

Journeyman Finish Carpenter

Cascade Ridge Remodeling, Tacoma, WA 2021 to present

Two person finish crew on kitchen, bath and whole house remodels valued from eighty thousand to six hundred thousand dollars.

  • Sets cabinetry, countertops and hardware on roughly eighteen kitchens a year to a quarter inch tolerance across each run.
  • Builds site made shelving, wainscot and coffered ceilings from shop drawings and field measurements.
  • Runs the finish schedule in Buildertrend and flags material lead times to the project manager every week.

Carpenter

Harbor Line Construction Group, Olympia, WA 2018 to 2021

Framing and interior trim on single family and small multifamily work for a regional builder.

  • Framed walls, floor systems and roofs on twenty two townhome units to approved plans and the International Residential Code.
  • Hung interior doors and cased openings at a pace of nine to eleven doors a day.
  • Corrected framing items raised at inspection and kept the schedule within two days of plan.

Carpenter Apprentice

Salish Bay Builders, Tacoma, WA 2016 to 2018

Registered apprenticeship pairing classroom instruction with supervised hours on residential jobs.

  • Logged four thousand supervised hours across layout, framing, siding and interior finish.

Licensure and Certification

Occupational Safety and Health Administration ten hour construction card

Environmental Protection Agency Lead Safe Renovator certification under the Renovation Repair and Painting rule

First aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation certification

Scaffold user and aerial lift operator training

Education

Associate degree in construction technology, Bates Technical College, Tacoma, Washington, 2018

Registered carpentry apprenticeship, Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, completed 2020

Core Skills

Finish carpentry · Stair layout · Cabinet installation · Interior trim · Blueprint reading · Field measurement · Buildertrend · Bluebeam Revu · Dust control in occupied homes · Client walk throughs

Carpenter resume examples — FAQs

How many Carpenter resume examples are there?

6 designs, covering Achievement, Editorial, Classic and Minimalist layouts. They all carry the same sections — the difference is the layout, so pick whichever suits how much experience you need to fit on the page.

Can I edit the Carpenter resume examples?

Yes. Every example downloads as a Word (.docx) file with editable text, headings and spacing, so you can replace the content with your own without rebuilding the layout. A PDF version is also available for each design.

Are these resume examples free?

Yes. Every example on this page downloads free as an editable Word document or a PDF, with no signup, account or payment required.

What format do the resume examples come in?

Each design is available as a Word (.docx) file and as a PDF. Use the Word file to edit the content, and the PDF when an employer asks for a fixed-layout document.

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