Carpenter, Trades ​/ Skilled Labor

IDEAL CANDIDATE STATEMENT

The ideal candidate will have experience in fabricating and installing wooden and other structures. They will be well-versed in commercial and residential construction, with experience delivering high-quality projects in framing, roofing, finishing, door installation, windows, and siding. They will also be proficient in using various types of tools and equipment related to carpentry, reading blueprints, and managing other trades on larger projects.

The ideal candidate will have strong leadership abilities with a focus on teamwork and customer satisfaction.

This is skilled work of the journey-level involving both rough and finished carpentry work. Employees perform assignments in the construction and maintenance of structural woodwork and equipment requiring the skilled use of standard carpenter tools and power driven woodworking machinery. Assignments are normally made orally or in the form of rough sketches or blueprints. Work is inspected for satisfactory compliance with instructions, although routine repairs are usually made independently without supervision or review.

Depending upon assignment, duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Repairs and maintains doors, floors, windows, partitions, roofs, and small parts of buildings
• Repairs and builds tables, shelves, desks, playground apparatus and other wood equipment and fixtures
• Builds rough wooden structures such as barricades, fences and scaffolds and does sheeting and rough carpentry on park and other City buildings
• Performs hand and bench work in carpentry shop; operates planers, joiners, drill presses, power saws, and other woodworking machinery
• Repairs hand tools, shovels, rakes, band saws; sharpens axes, joiner blades, and rip and chain saws
• Performs related work as required

• Standard practices, methods, materials, and tools of the carpentry trade
• Occupational hazards and safety precautions of the trade

• Plan, lay out and perform carpentry work of average difficulty
• Occupational hazards and safety precautions of the trade

• The care and use of hand and bench tools and equipment of the carpentry trade

Any combination equivalent to experience and education that could likely provide the required knowledge and abilities would be qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be experience as a journey-level Carpenter or completion of a recognized apprenticeship in this work.

Should education be used to qualify for this position, then proof of education such as, but not limited to, university/college transcripts and degrees should be submitted with your application and will be required at the time of appointment. Unofficial documents and/or copies are acceptable. An applicant with a college degree obtained outside the United States must have education records evaluated by a credential's evaluation service.

Evaluation of education records will be due at time of appointment.

Possession of a valid California Class C Driver License at time of appointment. Loss of the Class C license is cause for discipline. Individuals who do not meet this requirement due to a physical disability will be considered for accommodation on a case-by-case basis.

Employees must complete twelve (12) months of probation at a satisfactory performance level prior to gaining permanent status.