Carpenter - Facilities Services

ummc; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

UMMC is seeking a journeyman carpenter for the Facilities Services team. The role involves constructing, repairing, and installing fixtures across the Main Campus Jackson facility.

Knowledge of materials, methods, and tools for building maintenance is essential, along with ability to read blueprints and comply with safety guidelines. Required: high school diploma/GED and at least one year of carpenter experience, plus a valid driver’s license.

Qualifications

• High school diploma/GED and one year of carpenter experience.
• Valid Driver's License required.
• Vocational or technical certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Performs skilled carpentry work following instructions, rough sketches, or drawings for construction, repair, maintenance, and alteration of buildings and fixtures.
• Repairs and maintains building components including floors, walls, ceilings, doors, and furniture.
• Measures, shapes, and cuts materials to specified dimensions using hand tools and power equipment; sand, paint, and stain wooden items as needed.
• Completes finishing tasks and assembles frameworks; replaces damaged structural components as required.
• Constructs rough wooden structures such as barricades, boxes, scaffolds, and frameworks.
• Operates power tools and machinery, maintaining safety and quality standards.
• Maintains a clean work area and adheres to safety/environmental regulations; documents work progress.

Skills

Blueprint reading

Verbal communication

Written communication

Safety compliance

Education

High school diploma/GED

Driver's license

Vocational or technical certification preferred

Job description

Job Requisition ID: R00053271

Job Category: Professional and Technical

Organization: Fac Services-Carpenter

Location/s: Main Campus Jackson

Job Title: Carpenter - Facilities Services

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.

Education & Experience

Education and Experience Required: High school diploma/GED and one (1) year of carpenter experience.

Certifications, Licenses, or Registration required: Valid Driver's License required.

Preferred Qualifications: Vocational or technical certification.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair 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.

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.

Physical and Environmental Demands

Requires 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 travelling 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, frequent bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 100 pounds, occasional climbing, occasional crawling, frequent crouching/stooping, occasional driving, frequent kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, frequent reaching, occasional sitting, frequent standing, frequent twisting, and frequent walking. (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-5