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Ketchikan Indian Community Lead Carpenter in Ketchikan, Alaska
General Information
Job Title: Lead Carpenter
Date Posted: 05/22/2024
Location: Maintenance
Compensation and Hours
Minimum Salary: 28.65/Year
Maximum Salary: 42.98/Year
Type of Job: Full Time
Hours per Week: 40
Benefits: Health/Dental/Vision/401K
Anticipated Job Duration: None Selected
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Job Description
Position:
Lead Carpenter
FLSA:
Non-Exempt
Department
Maintenance
Status:
Full-Time Regular
Supervisor:
Building Superintendent
Supervisory:
Yes
Indian Preference: Consistent with Public Law 93-638 and other federal laws recognizing the inherent right of the Tribe to exercise Indian Preference.
Purpose
Ketchikan Indian Community (KIC) job descriptions are a management tool to help organize duties and provide employees with the employer’s expectations with regard to a specific job classification. The duties listed are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is a reasonable assignment for the position. This job description is not an employment agreement or contract. Management has the exclusive right to alter this job description at any time without notice.
Job Summary
Will oversee maintenance and repairs of electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), carpentry, painting, and other building systems.
Recommends hires and trains carpenters and maintenance technicians. Organizes and oversees the schedules and work of assigned staff.
Work is performed with considerable latitude for independent judgment and action. Assignments and instructions are received orally or written from immediate supervisor.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Personnel Management
Directs personnel management for consistency in the programs and services for Carpenters and Maintenance Technician staff of the Maintenance Department. Monitors and approves staff development and training standards. Ensures the personnel policies are followed, interprets policy, and monitors personnel actions for adherence to Tribal policy.
Supervises multiple Carpenters and Maintenance Technician staff positions. Monitors staff evaluation process and annual employee safety programs. Ensure adhere to local, state or federal standards for employee training, specifically, HIPAA compliance, safety, workplace violence, and preventing sexual harassment.
Recruits, selects, orientates, trains, coaches, counsels, and disciplines the Carpenters and Maintenance Technicians;
Recommends all hiring, promotions, salary increases, merit increases, transfers, discipline and removal of Carpenter and Maintenance Technicians to the Building Superintendent.
Nature of Work
Maintenance projects in multiple KIC facilities, construction, and remodeling of residential structures in the Ketchikan area working with the KIC Housing Programs include but are not limited to:
Foundation shoring and retrofitting
Framing floors, walls, and roofs
Drywall hanging, taping, and repair
Roofing application (all types)
Replacement of windows and doors
Weatherproofing
Insulation
Decking and siding
Familiarity of acceptable building practices, especially those pertaining to weatherproofing structures in southeast Alaska.
Knowledge of building codes, reading of blueprints and specification sheets, and adherence to safety standards are required.
A limited knowledge of the other building trades is helpful in order that coordination issues do not delay the job.
Carpenters and Maintenance Technicians will work on KIC client homes while occupied. Therefore, must be courteous, considerate, neat in appearance, and conduct themselves in a professional manner.
KIC COMPETENCIES
Cultural Competency: To be respectful and responsive to the health beliefs, practices, and cultural and linguistic needs of KIC Tribal Members. Developing cultural competence is an evolving, dynamic process that takes time and occurs along a continuum.
Commitment: To serve Tribal Members and set a high standard for yourself in your performance; strive for results and success; convey a sense of urgency and bring issues to closure; and stay persistent despite obstacles and opposition.
Customer Service: Meet/exceed the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; identify, understand, and monitor the needs of both internal and external customers, always talk and act with customers in mind; and recognize working colleagues as customers.
Effective Communication: Ensure important information is passed to those who need to know; convey necessary information with respect, clearly and effectively orally or in writing
Responsiveness and Accountability: Demonstrate a high level of conscientiousness; hold oneself personally responsible for one's own work; and do the required fair share of work.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES
Considerable knowledge of materials, methods, and techniques commonly used in construction, maintenance, and repair activities;
Knowledge of prevention measures and structure safety;
Knowledge of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA);
Skill to operate software programs;
Ability to use a variety of hand tools;
Ability to do home repair inspections and written reports pertaining to work required;
Ability to communicate professionally over the telephone and in person in a positive and clear manner;
Ability to manage multiple tasks, including telephone, computer operations and in-person visits simultaneously;
Ability to take verbal instruction and complete assigned project by established deadline;
Ability to be flexible in order to perform at the highest level as a team player;
Ability to utilize maximum degree of professionalism and diplomacy with those who may be experiencing a high degree of stress both mentally and/or physically (both patients and co-workers);
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and able to prioritize assignments;
Ability to maintain confidentiality of all KIC operations and staff.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES
Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in a variety of environments and weather with exposure to dust, fumes, and chemicals in both indoor and outdoor construction, carpentry, maintenance, and sanitization duties.
Must have full range of physical motion as required to properly operate manual and electric power tools. Ability to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl into awkward spaces. Routinely lifting and carrying items and boxes up to forty (40) pounds. Verbally communicate to exchange information. Normal visual and hearing range with or without correction.
QUALIFICATIONS
Licensure
Possess current valid State of Alaska driver's license with a record acceptable to KIC’s Insurance carrier.
Education / Experience
High school diploma or equivalent required.
Five years of construction / maintenance work and two years supervisory experience required.
Required Job Qualifications
Can you pass a drug test?
Are you 18 or older?
2(a). Education - Do you have a GED or High School diploma
Do you have a pending charge or past conviction for DWI/DUI?
Do you have any pending charge(s) or past conviction(s) for possession of a controlled substance?
Has a driver's license, permit, or privilege ever been suspended or revoked?
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