Carpenter Leader

Full Job Description

This position is located at Overton Brook VA Medical Center, Engineering Service.

The work involves constructing, altering, maintaining, and repairing buildings, structures, partitions, panels, tool cabinets, bookcases, work benches, and other items using wood, wood substitutes, and composite building materials.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 03/13/2026.

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.

The potential eligibles are then rated against the remainder of the Job Elements: Carpentry/Woodworking Equipment Assembly, Installation, Repair Interpret Instructions, Specifications (includes blueprint reading) Lead or Supervise Measurement and Layout Technical Practices Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment 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. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week.

Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities.

Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Physical Requirements: Position must be in good physical condition, have good eyesight (with or without glasses) and not be color, with the ability to work in close and cramped positions.

The position requires walking, standing, bending, lifting, carrying, and pushing and pulling moderately heavy loads. Carpentry workers at this level work in wood shops and at job sites.

When working in a shop, carp enters stand for extended periods while operating machines such as bench planners, saws, and drill presses. The work requires considerable bending, kneeling, and stooping.

When at a job site, strenuous physical exertion is sometimes required when handling heavy and bulky materials such as sheets of plywood, framing members, and other building and construction materials.

Uses manual or portable power tools for extended periods in uncomfortable positions. On-site work typically requires bending, stooping, crawling, and climbing on ladders, scaffolding, and rooftops.

Workers may lift and move materials up to 18 kilograms (40 pounds), unassisted, and occasionally lift or move heavier items with the assistance of lifting devices or other workers.

May require working in restricted areas and pushing/pulling moderately heavy loads. Must be able to perform work while wearing a respirator or self-contained breathing apparatus.

Constant vigilance and attention to details is required to eliminate hazards and to maintain safe working conditions for all concerned.

Working Conditions: It may be hot, cold, humid, wet, outdoors, indoors, on a scaffold or ladder, or in the pipe crawl space.

Position shall be subjected to hazards normally encountered in the trade and various types of Infections.

Position must be able to work during any emergency need for repairs, night or day, to work long hours until such jobs are completed.

Some work is performed in shop areas where the worker is exposed to moderate or high noise levels from operating machinery, sawdust in the air, glue fumes, and hazards associated with woodworking and related power equipment.

When working at job sites, workers may be exposed to weather conditions and the hazards of working on and around scaffolds and ladders. They are subject to cuts, bruises, and contusions.

Carpenters may work in confined areas such as crawl spaces and attics which may be dusty and dirty. They use protective devices such as ear plugs, safety glasses, respirators, and gloves.

The position shall be subjected to the hazards normally encountered in the trade and various types of infections. Major Duties:

Duties may include: Operation of general and precision carpentry and woodworking equipment. Produces finished products with precise fits, accurate dimensions, and acceptable appearance.

Interpret complex instructions, sketches, blueprints, and building codes.

Measures for layouts such as those required to construct footings for structural foundations and construct concrete forms and related structures with little or no supervisory guidance.

Uses advanced shop mathematics to plan, compute, and lay out more complex and exact projects with features such as arcs, tangents, and circles.

Skilled in setting up and operating the full range of industrial woodworking and related machinery such as routers, band and scroll saws, and drill presses.

Determines the proper grade, size, and type of lumber or wood substitute material required for the job.

Operates and uses power and hand tools and other woodworking equipment such as portable drills, clippers, joiners, shavers, tenoners, sanders, routers, power activated nail guns, combustion type saws, screw fasteners, drill presses, and table saws.

Sets up and adjusts stationary power equipment by checking and adjusting, for example, the "squareness" of the blade on a radial arm saw in relation to the surface of the cutting table.

Performs routine maintenance on equipment by lubricating machines, changing, and sharpening saw blades, and by adjusting drive belt tensions.

Work Schedule: Monday through Friday; 8:00am-4:30PM; Subject to change based on the needs of the facility.

Position Description Title/PD#: Carpenter Leader/PD075590 Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized