Wood Crafter

Duties

TOUR OF DUTY: Monday - Friday 6:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. (hours are flexible)

Duties and responsibilities include the following:

• Makes and repairs high grade wooden items such as cabinetry, furniture and decorative woodwork. These items have intricate, precise and fancy features and details such as curved and contoured surfaces, book-matched panels, scrollwork, friezes, inlays and complex joints.

• Selects, cuts, turns, shapes, joins, bonds, fits, assembles and decorates wooden materials and parts using the full range of hand and power woodworking tools, machines and techniques to create superior and structurally reliable wood work which requires exact fitting and close weight, pressure and size tolerances to construct specialty furniture.

• Uses wood supplies and precision woodworking methods to plan and lay out their work from specifications, blueprints, rough sketches and verbal instructions.

• Complies with all OSHA safety rules and regulations to ensure that work progresses in a safe manner.

• Reviews blueprints and drawings to assemble and/or re-manufacture parts and pieces of historic wood items or splice in new wood with old since the historic features of many Capitol Hill structures must be precisely recreated and/or modified to exact specifications.

Qualifications

You must meet all eligibility and qualification requirements by the closing date of the job announcement.

You must meet the following SCREEN-OUT required for this position:

-- Ability to perform woodworking tasks without more than normal supervision.