Carpenter – Facility Maintenance

The City of Seattle is seeking to hire two journey-level skilled carpenters to perform carpentry work in the construction, maintenance, alteration, and repair of buildings, building equipment, and facilities.

In this role you’ll have the opportunity to perform a broad scope of facility maintenance work, including maintenance, repair, alteration and construction. These positions require work under the general direction of the Carpenter Crew Chief and within a team of 30+ members of skilled trades and administrative professionals.

FAS is often the public's first interaction with the City of Seattle, operating as a customer-focused front door that assists with everything from paying utilities or reporting a pothole to requesting public information or even adopting a new pet.

The 500-plus employees of FAS span across 10 divisions and work behind-the-scenes providing critical functions, like managing 120 City facilities—including police and fire stations—overseeing the City's neighborhood customer service centers and Customer Service Bureau and making sure minority-owned businesses can equitably compete for City contracts. No matter the need, FAS is here—at your service.

• Install and maintain doors, electronic and manual locks and other security hardware.
• Alter, repair, and construct a variety of building structures such as walls, partitions, doorways, window casings, stairways, and roofs.
• Build, install and repair, cabinets, furniture and other fixtures such as soap-towel-toilet paper dispensers, shelving, bulletin boards, whiteboards.
• Design, construct, remodel, repair and install cabinets. Install flooring, ceiling and wall covering materials. Estimate and requisition materials for work activities; maintain records of job time and materials used.
• Operate power equipment such as saws, jointers, lathes, sanders, planers, boring and mortising machines; clean, sharpen, maintain and repair such equipment.
• Read, interpret, and work from blueprints, plans, specifications, and written instructions to complete work orders timely and within City building codes.
• Build and install concrete forms; pour and finish concrete.
• Assist in the design and development of plans for new construction depending on the work assignments. Read, track and input work orders in the City's work order management system.
• Employees may also occasionally perform tasks associated with related trades.

• Three years of carpentry trade experience under the direction of a journey level carpenter
• Completion of an accepted carpentry apprenticeship program.
• Valid Washington State driver's license or ability to obtain one by the start date.

Or a combination of education and/or training and/or experience which provides an equivalent background required to perform the work of the class.

Candidates may be most successful in this role if they have a broad scope of journey-level maintenance carpentry and related trades knowledge and experience including locksmith experience, are able to diagnose issues and solve problems and have strong mechanical skills. This skill level is typically gained through completion of apprenticeship program and at least three years of journey level experience.

ten (10) years of recent experience as a journey level Carpenter in maintenance or commercial construction. We hope that you have finish carpentry and cabinet making skills. You know how to use a smartphone for communication, email, texting, photos, Microsoft Teams, google maps, and for research. You are comfortable using a computer for email and for looking things up.

• This position requires full-time onsite work.
• Required to stand, walk or bend for extended periods of time.
• Required to lift objects weighing more than 50 pounds.
• Work in confined spaces or at heights from ladders, lifts and scaffolds.
• May require handling or working with toxic/hazardous substances.
• Required to work outdoors in all types of weather.
• Must comply with PPE standards and all safety guidelines.
• Must be able to read and interpret blueprints.
• May be called after-hours for emergency repairs.

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