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Maintenance Helper

Arlington, VA · On-site

$25/hr

... carpentry. * Maintaining a log keeping and visible inspection of all operating equipment, including chiller, cooling tower, water heaters, pumps and fan coil units. * Inspecting rooftop exhaust fans ...

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Maintenance Helper

Arlington, VA · On-site

... carpentry. * Maintaining a log keeping and visible inspection of all operating equipment, including chiller, cooling tower, water heaters, pumps and fan coil units. * Inspecting rooftop exhaust fans ...

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Handyman

New York, NY · On-site

$25/hr

... carpentry. * Maintaining a log keeping and visible inspection of all operating equipment, including chiller, cooling tower, water heaters, pumps and fan coil units. * Inspecting rooftop exhaust fans ...

Planned Companies

Maintenance Helper

Arlington, VA · On-site

$25/hr

... carpentry. * Maintaining a log keeping and visible inspection of all operating equipment, including chiller, cooling tower, water heaters, pumps and fan coil units. * Inspecting rooftop exhaust fans ...

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Maintenance Technician

Jersey City, NJ · On-site

$27/hr

... carpentry. * Maintaining a log keeping and visible inspection of all operating equipment, including chiller, cooling tower, water heaters, pumps and fan coil units. * Inspecting rooftop exhaust fans ...

Planned Companies

Maintenance Helper

Arlington, VA · On-site

$25/hr

... carpentry. * Maintaining a log keeping and visible inspection of all operating equipment, including chiller, cooling tower, water heaters, pumps and fan coil units. * Inspecting rooftop exhaust fans ...

Planned Companies

Maintenance Technician

Jersey City, NJ · On-site

$27/hr

... carpentry. * Maintaining a log keeping and visible inspection of all operating equipment, including chiller, cooling tower, water heaters, pumps and fan coil units. * Inspecting rooftop exhaust fans ...

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Handyman

Jersey City, NJ · On-site

$30/hr

... carpentry. * Maintaining a log keeping and visible inspection of all operating equipment, including chiller, cooling tower, water heaters, pumps and fan coil units. * Inspecting rooftop exhaust fans ...

Planned Companies

Handyman

Jersey City, NJ · On-site

$30/hr

... carpentry. * Maintaining a log keeping and visible inspection of all operating equipment, including chiller, cooling tower, water heaters, pumps and fan coil units. * Inspecting rooftop exhaust fans ...

Planned Companies

NJ · On-site

... carpentry. * Maintaining a log keeping and visible inspection of all operating equipment, including chiller, cooling tower, water heaters, pumps and fan coil units. * Inspecting rooftop exhaust fans ...

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How much do cooling tower carpenter jobs pay per hour?

As of Aug 19, 2026, the average hourly pay for cooling tower carpenter in the United States is $25.06, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $20.91 and $28.37 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a cooling tower carpenter?

A Cooling Tower Carpenter constructs, repairs, and maintains the wooden components of cooling towers used in industrial and HVAC systems. They work with materials such as wood, fiberglass, and metal to ensure structural integrity and efficiency. The job involves reading blueprints, measuring and cutting materials, assembling frameworks, and performing routine inspections. Safety is a priority, as work is often performed at heights and in various weather conditions. Skilled craftsmanship and knowledge of construction techniques are essential for this role.

What does a cooling tower carpenter do?

A typical day for a Cooling Tower Carpenter involves constructing, repairing, or replacing structural wooden components of cooling towers, often working at significant heights and in outdoor conditions. You'll spend time interpreting plans, measuring and cutting materials, assembling frameworks, and ensuring all work meets safety and quality standards. Collaboration with other trades, such as welders, crane operators, and engineers, is frequent to coordinate the efficient and safe completion of projects. The work is physically demanding and may require flexibility in hours, especially during major maintenance periods or plant shutdowns. Over time, experienced carpenters may progress to supervisory roles or specialize further within industrial construction settings.

What skills and qualifications are needed to be a cooling tower carpenter?

To thrive as a Cooling Tower Carpenter, you need advanced carpentry skills, the ability to read blueprints, and experience working with specialized materials used in cooling tower construction and repair. Familiarity with construction tools, safety harness systems, and certifications such as OSHA safety training are typically required. Strong teamwork, attention to detail, and effective problem-solving skills set outstanding candidates apart. These abilities are critical to maintaining structural integrity, ensuring worker safety, and adhering to precise project specifications in often demanding environments.

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Construction General Superintendent

Midwest Cooling Towers

Chickasha, OK • On-site

Full-time

Re-posted 29 days ago

Job description

Summary The purpose of this position is to supervise field erection of cooling towers, ensuring that each job is completed safely, efficiently, and with quality. The incumbent ensures that the construction aspect of cooling towers is completed under experienced leadership and direction. Further, the incumbent is responsible for customer satisfaction and completing each job according to contract and budget. This role involves travel, within the US, in order to effectively hire and supervise the craft workers who complete cooling tower construction. The successful incumbent demonstrates strong leadership skills, ensures that job sites are as safe as possible, works well with clients and fellow associates, and stays on time and on budget. This position typically overseas project(s) of a large scale, with a large budget and/or that contains smaller projects being operated all as part of the overall project.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following (other duties may be assigned).
  • Knowledgeable of the policies set in the Employee Information Handbook and know the consequences of not following company policy.
  • Interface with clients.
  • Highly knowledgeable in carpentry skills, procedures, and fabrication to insure the most efficient and timely installation.
  • Demonstrate safety knowledge on all tools they may work with within their area.
  • Conduct safety orientations and supervise safe work practices
  • Receive and manage construction materials
  • Create daily reports and time reports
  • Close out each job, including final paperwork, ensuring client approval and satisfaction
  • Attend pre-construction meetings
  • Confer with supervisory and engineering personnel and inspectors and suppliers of tools and materials to resolve construction problems and improve construction methods
  • Study specifications to plan procedures for construction on basis of starting and completion times and staffing requirements for each phase of construction
  • Keep work area neat and clean
  • Conduct daily and weekly Safety meetings
  • Complete incidents reports as necessary
  • Purchase small construction needs, rent any equipment required, and issue purchase requisitions to management as necessary.

Supervisory Responsibilities:
  • Recruit and train field construction employees in job duties and safety, including foremen that can independently handle a specific job assignment.
  • Hire, supervise, and terminate craft employees.
  • Responsible for all supervision of the crew members, handle any day to day labor problems and any safety violations on the jobsite.
  • Send employees for urine drug screens when required by either Midwest Cooling Towers or jobsite personnel and complete necessary paperwork.
  • Responsible for inspecting and supervising work to ensure that the workmanship is to job specifications.
  • Monitor progress of subcontractors
  • Maintain contact with management concerning job progress.

Qualifications:
  • Required HS Diploma or GED.
  • Minimum 5 years cooling tower field experience or equivalent.
  • Must have OSHA 30 within 18 months of taking position.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Safety Knowledge:
  • Conduct daily and weekly Safety meetings
  • Must demonstrate safe work practices in installation of cooling towers including safety knowledge concerning chemical and/or process hazards associated with work in plants. Including: Lock Out/ Tag Out, Confined Space, Plant Emergency Action Plan, Safe Work Permits, Hole Watch/Standby, Fire Watch, and Fall Protection.
  • Must work safely on and around scaffolding, platforms, ladders, and/or cooling tower structures.
  • Administer basic first aid when/if needed on the jobsite.

Language Skills:
  • Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
  • Ability to write simple correspondence.
  • Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and large group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Reasoning Ability:
  • Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed and involved written or oral instructions.
  • Capable of laying out work, preparing progress reports on construction, errors in design, fabrication, shipments, recording time records and field payroll records.

Physical Demands:
  • The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  • While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 100 pounds, frequently lift and/or move more than 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:
  • The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  • While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; extreme heat and risk of electrical shock. The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; toxic or caustic chemicals and vibration.
  • The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.

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