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Carpenter
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 30 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
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Subject to background/security investigation 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 identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP) 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 or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
Job ID: df64ecda-4a24-4419-9685-6fe9f9369fba
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