Trades Specialist, Carpenter
Trades Specialist, Carpenter
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Job Description
Are you looking to take your career to new heights with a leader in healthcare SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is one of the nations leading metropolitan medical centers. As the only academic medical center in Brooklyn we serve a large population that is among the most diverse in the world. We are also highlyranked by Castle Connolly Medical a healthcare rating company for consumers among the top 5 leading U.S. medical schools for training doctors.
Bargaining Unit:
CSEA
Job Summary:
The Department of Facilities Management and Development at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is seeking a fulltime Trades Specialist Carpenter.
Trades Specialists (Carpenter) perform journeylevel carpentry work and may supervise others in the construction and repair of structures and other wood items. In addition to carpentry this trade includes roofing millwork furniture construction furniture finishing and repair and cabinet work and use of common construction tools and equipment. Incumbents may also install and adjust door and building hardware including locks door closures door knobs hinges door checks sash fittings and other lock work activities.
Illustrative Tasks
- Builds repairs and installs such items as counters cabinets benches partitions floors doors windows building framework roofs and trim following verbal or written instructions utilizing the tools of the carpentry trade and following standard carpentry techniques.
- Installs and repairs ceiling and floor tiles.
- Does general millwork; may build cabinets furniture and other wooden equipment in the shop using woodworking machines.
- Maintains shop machinery.
- May keep inventory and control of the distribution of carpentry tools and equipment and maintain such equipment.
- May conduct inspections of the facility to determine maintenance needs and recommend priorities for repair based on the nature of the maintenance problem.
- Trades Specialists (Carpenter) may supervise and instruct others in the construction and repair of structures and other wooden items.
- Assigns work to a maintenance staff.
- May draw rough sketches or prepare plans to scale from verbal or written instructions to accomplish a project.
- May review plans and recommend and order the kind quantity and quality of materials to be used.
- Assembles materials tools and equipment required to accomplish the work according to plan.
- Lays out the work for staff and performs such skilled tasks as laying out the cutting of roof trusses and stairs hanging doors and installing hardware.
- May give verbal instruction and/or demonstrate proper carpentry techniques and the use of carpentry tools and equipment.
- Observes and inspects work in progress and when completed to ensure that the job is done properly.
Required Qualifications:
- Noncompetitive: 4years of fulltime experience in carpentry work under a skilled tradesperson which would provide training equivalent to that given in a training apprenticeship or equivalent program or an equivalent combination of experience and training gained by completion of technical courses in carpentry at a school institute or branch of the Armed Services;
- OR successful completion of the 2year Trades Specialist (Carpenter) traineeship or a 2year carpenter training apprenticeship OR equivalent program* such as the New York State Civil Service Employees Association Partnership Applied Skilled Trades Traineeship and Certificate Program.
(* Successful completion of the traineeship and the training program includes a total of 288 hours of tradespecific classroom instruction 45 hours of technical math course work 45 hours of technical communications course work and 15 hours of blueprint/schematic reading course work. Course work must be completed with an average of C or better. Additionally successful completion of the traineeship also includes 4000 hours of onthejob training.)
Preferred Qualifications:
Work Schedule:
Variable Days; Variable Hours (FullTime)
Salary Grade/Rank:
Salary Range:
As per civil service guidelines
Executive Order:
Pursuant to Executive Order 161 no State entity as defined by the Executive Order is permitted to ask or mandate in any form that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation or any prior compensation history until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time please contact the Governors Office of Employee Relations at(518)or via email at.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is an affirmative action equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race color national origin religion creed age disability sex gender identity or expression sexual orientation familial status pregnancy predisposing genetic characteristics military status domestic violence victim status criminal conviction and all other protected classes under federal or state laws.
Women minorities veterans individualswith disabilities and members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.
If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process or in order to perform the essential functions of a position please contactHuman Resources at
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
