Carpenter - Facilities Services
University of Mississippi Medical Center · Jackson, MS · 1 wk ago
ManagementFull-time
Job Requisition ID R00053271 | Full time | Day shift | Hourly pay class
Job Summary
To perform journeyman-level carpentry work to construct, erect, install, or repair structures and fixtures. Utilize a variety of materials, including but not limited to wood, concrete, plaster, tile, brick, metal, and glass.
Responsibilities
- Performs skilled carpentry work by following instructions, rough sketches, or detailed drawings for the construction, repair, maintenance, and alteration of buildings, doors, partitions, and related fixtures.
- Repairs and maintains building components, including floors, walls, ceilings, screens, windows, sashes, doors, and furniture.
- Measures, shapes, and cuts materials to specified dimensions using hand tools, machinery, and power saws.
- Sands, paints, and stains desks, chairs, and other wooden items.
- Completes various finishing tasks and assembles frameworks or structures using hand tools, screws, nails, dowel pins, or glue.
- Removes and replaces damaged or defective structural components.
- Constructs rough wooden structures such as barricades, boxes, scaffolds, and frameworks.
- Operates power equipment including saws, jointers, lathes, sanders, planers, and boring and mortising machines.
- Maintains a clean work environment, adheres to safety and environmental regulations, and ensures compliance with accrediting and licensing standards.
- Completes and documents work in a timely manner while maintaining quality standards.
- The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.
Requirements
- High school diploma/GED and one (1) year of carpenter experience.
- Valid Driver's License required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Vocational or technical certification.
Skills
- Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of buildings and structures.
- Skills in installing, repairing, and selecting the appropriate equipment necessary to complete the job.
- Verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to read blueprints correctly.
- Ability to comply with safety and environmental guidelines.
Physical and Environmental Demands
- Frequent exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold.
- Frequent handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment.
- Frequent exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations.
- Occasional working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours.
- Occasional traveling to offsite locations.
- Occasional activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature.
- Frequent work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality.
- Occasional lifting and carrying up to 100 pounds.
- Occasional climbing and crawling.
- Frequent bending, crouching/stooping, kneeling, pushing/pulling, reaching, standing, twisting, and walking.
- Occasional driving and sitting.
Benefits
Eligible for full benefits.