Carpenter, Trades ​/ Skilled Labor

Located in Lewiston, Maine, Bates is internationally recognized asa leading liberal arts college. We are proud to offer a highly personalized education that centers on deep and sustained interactions among students, faculty, and community. We are engaging the forces — intellectual trends, demographic changes, and technology — that are transforming higher education and the worldinto which our students graduate.

Executing all varieties of carpentry-mason related construction,maintenance, renovation, and repair projects on campus, using high quality carpentry/masonry skills.

• Coordinate all carpenter and or masonry work with other building trades
• Read and interpret blueprints
• Communicate well with all customers, staff and faculty and understand their needs
• Provide sketches of objects to be built in the carpenter shopand installed throughout the campus buildings
• Operate all carpenter related equipment
• Perform all carpentry related functions
• Complete work orders and PM (Preventive Maintenance) slips

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Trade school diploma or other carpentry and or masonry credentials desired

• 5 years of residential and/or commercial building experience
• Ability to work with wood, metal, or materials necessary for fabrication, repair, and renovation of all buildings
• Knowledge of tools, building supplies, and hardware associated with building trade
• Computer experience and ability to understand CAD drafting usesand blueprints
• Knowledge of roofing, concrete work, window, and door installation also desired
• Ability to use table saws, band saws, planers, and other tools generally associated with building trades
• Some experience with tile work preferred including grouting
• Some masonry experience preferred including repointing, andlaying brick

• Commitment to equity and inclusion, and serving the needs of aculturally and educationally diverse community.
• Basic math and computer skills.
• Ability to logically trouble-shoot equipment problems.
• Ability to follow oral and written instructions in the conductof the job.
• Establish and maintain working relationships with supervisors,co-workers and outside contacts.
• Ability to perform manual tasks requiring moderate physicalstrength.
• Ability to use tact and diplomacy to effectively handle a broad range of interpersonal situations and to respond appropriately toconflicts and problems.
• Ability and willingness to work weekends, evenings, on-call andother non-traditional schedules.

Bates College offers competitive salaries, excellent benefits(health, dental, 9% retirement contribution with potential for an additional 3% match, 10 days of vacation*, 13 paid holidays, free parking, access to library and athletic facilities & more), anda supportive, collegial environment in a drug- and smoke-free workplace.

The hiring range for this position is $23.76to $28.00. Placement within the range depends on experience andother factors.

Bates College is committed to the principle of equal opportunity and providing an educational and work environment free from discrimination. The college prohibits discrimination on the basisof race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, age, disability,genetic information or veteran status and other legally protected statuses in the recruitment and admission of its students, in the administration of its education policies and programs, or in the recruitment of its faculty and staff.

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