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Carpenter
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 4 days ago
About the Role
OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise to care for those who have served in our nation's military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate care to Veterans? DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY: This position is being filled using Direct-Hire Authority (5 CFR 337.201) for this occupation.
What You'll Do
- →This Carpenter position is aligned under the Architectural Shop, Facilities Management Division, at the Clement J.
- →Zablocki Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI.
- →The work involves construction, altering, maintaining, and repairing buildings, structures, partitions, panels and other items using wood, wood substitutes, and composite building materials.
- →Major Duties: Reads, interprets, and works from drawings and blueprints.
- →Utilizes good carpentry practices, and follows state and federal codes.
- →Performs wall, floor ceiling construction, lays sub-flooring in an expert fashion, and hangs suspended ceilings or attaches ceiling tile.
- →Fabricates and installs Formica countertops and installs wall coverings.
- →Cuts, sands, and plane lumber.-Installs and adjusts storm door checks.
- →Repairs and inspects fire doors using local checklist.
- →Performs carpentry tasks such as alterations and/or remodeling which includes removing and installing partitions, additions to buildings, opening of walls for installation of doors and windows, cuts and sets concrete forms.
- →Cuts lumber to size for ceiling and floor plates, studs, braces headers, framework for doors and windows, including headers and anchors.
- →Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday-Friday, 7 AM-3:30 PM and may be required to be present to provide off-hours support for utility outages, maintenance and projects support, etc. *Eligible for Alternate Work Schedule (AWS) with (8) 9 hour days and (1) 8 hour day and (1) day off a pay period being a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.
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: 5ce27071-05cf-44da-903b-5e5eb1ac4188
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