Carpenter
What you'd do
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.
Major duties
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.
What you need to qualify
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. EXPERIENCE: A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstrates you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards. SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT: Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Those applicants who appear to possess at least the minimal acceptable qualification requirement are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
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