Carpenter

Veterans Health Administration • Boise, ID

7d • Onsite

About The Position

This position is in Facility Management Service at the Boise VA Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. The Carpenter performs a variety of tasks to maintain, repair, and complete minor projects in offices, bedrooms, shops, warehouses, dining and medical areas, and other interior and exterior building spaces. The work involves constructing, installing, repairing, and modifying wood and wood-substitute structures and items to ensure close-tolerance fit and structural soundness, including adapting work to older structures while following applicable codes, policies, procedures, and best practices.

The Carpenter completes work-order repairs, maintenance, and modifications; performs carpentry, flooring, wall-finishing, roofing, window, door, fixture, hardware, masonry, and concrete work; and builds or installs items such as shelves, bins, cabinets, and framed boards. The position uses a range of hand and power tools and includes maintaining and storing equipment. The employee may guide patients, temporary carpenters, and apprentice carpenters, and may assist with small-scale asbestos abatement projects as needed.

The work schedule is Monday through Friday, 6:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Mountain Time. The employee must possess a current, valid state driver's license and obtain a U.S. Government motor vehicle operator's identification card within 60 days of assignment. The position involves moderate physical exertion and work in varied locations, including roofs, scaffolds, crawl spaces, ladders, and shop areas. The employee may encounter noise, sawdust, glue fumes, woodworking hazards, extreme weather, and confined or dusty spaces, and uses protective equipment such as ear plugs, safety glasses, respirators, and gloves.

Requirements

• Demonstrated training or experience of sufficient scope and quality to perform the work; no specific length of training or experience is required.
• Ability to construct, install, repair, and modify wood and wood-substitute structures and items requiring close-tolerance fit and structural soundness.
• Ability to study blueprints, sketches, and work orders.
• Ability to fit, install, and maintain finished hardware, including locks and kick plates, and maintain and repair padlocks and mortise, cylindrical, and push-button combination locksets.
• Experience and duties must be fully documented on the resume, including job title, duties, start and end dates by month and year, and hours worked per week.
• Current and valid state-issued driver's license.
• U.S. citizenship, except that non-citizens may be appointed when qualified citizens cannot be recruited in accordance with VA policy.
• Suitability for federal employment as determined by a background investigation.
• Selective Service registration for males born after December 31, 1959.
• Ability to complete the required online onboarding and provide acceptable identification and application documents.
• Ability to serve a one-year probationary period.
• Ability to perform moderate physical exertion, including frequent lifting up to 50 pounds, pushing, pulling, carrying, climbing, bending, stooping, crawling, and negotiating confined spaces; occasional lifting over 50 pounds and strenuous exertion.
• Ability to work in varied locations and distinguish colors.
• Ability to use protective devices, including ear plugs, safety glasses, respirators, and gloves.
• Compliance with annual seasonal influenza vaccination requirements or an approved medical or religious exemption; employees with an exemption must wear a face mask.

Responsibilities

• Perform carpentry work to maintain, repair, and complete minor projects in building interiors and exteriors.
• Construct, install, repair, and modify wood and wood-substitute structures and items, adapting work to existing structures and following codes and procedures.
• Complete work-order repairs, maintenance, and modifications, including installing framing, wallboard, composition board, sheathing, and dropped ceilings.
• Prepare flooring underlayment, patch concrete, install flooring, and repair flooring and wall finishes including vinyl, ceramic tile, hardwood, and siding.
• Repair, texture, and paint surfaces as needed when repairing or installing wallboard, composition board, tile, and siding.
• Maintain roofs and repair composition or wooden shingles and trim.
• Repair and install windows, screens, shades, doors, kitchen and bathroom fixtures, hardware, and locks; cut and replace glass panes; and install moldings and trim.
• Build forms, pour and finish concrete, and perform masonry work, including repairing and laying bricks and blocks.
• Build and install shelves, bins, cabinets, framed boards, and other items; apply Formica or plastic laminates where needed.
• Install hardware and wall-mounted items such as soap dispensers and display cases.
• Operate, maintain, and store hand and power tools and equipment.
• Work with and guide patients, temporary carpenters, and occasionally apprentice carpenters.
• Assist with small-scale asbestos abatement projects in the trade as necessary.
• Obtain a U.S. Government motor vehicle operator's identification card within 60 days of assignment.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package for the employee and family.
• Potential credit for qualifying job-related non-federal experience or active-duty uniformed military service toward the annual leave accrual rate, subject to request and approval before appointment and not guaranteed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed