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Carpenter
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 62 days ago
About the Role
Position functions as a Carpenter for the Eastern Kansas Health Care System, Facilities Management Service, and performs a full range of carpentry and related maintenance duties, placing a high emphasis on general carpentry and interior renovations to maintain a safe and functional environment.
What You'll Do
- →Major duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to: Constructs, installs, and repairs structures and fixtures, such as windows, doors, floors, ceilings, and cabinetry.
- →Reads and interprets blueprints, drawings, and sketches to determine specifications and calculate requirements.
- →Operates woodworking machines and uses hand tools to cut, shape, and form wood, plastic, and other materials.
- →Installs frameworks, partitions, doors, and windows.
- →Prepares and applies coating materials on wood, metal, concrete, synthetic, and other surfaces utilizing standard and special methods of the painting trade.
- →Repairs drywall and plaster; patches and finishes surfaces; replaces damaged components; ensures paint-ready condition.
- →Measures and calculates the quantity of wall covering needed for a wall-covering task.
- →Uses metals, synthetic resins, plastics, and patching compounds, pumice, and rottenstone for evening out dents and scars in the surfaces to be covered.
- →Conducts inspections; performs preventive maintenance; documents work; ensures compliance with standards.
- →Maintain all tools and equipment in operating condition.
- →Performs interior and exterior painting.
- →Executes painting both inside and outside of buildings, equipment, furnishings, machinery, and other surfaces.
- →Performs exterior road striping and marking using appropriate paint and equipment.
- →Erects rigging, staging, and scaffolding as part of the painting operation.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Services Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 4e1f5a50-5eb3-41d5-8dfd-2c46f48e5001
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