Description
Salary: $54,866 - $82,342
Position Grade: 211T
Department: Water Division
Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)
Examination Number: EX1726
Location: St. Louis, MO
Incumbents perform journey and lead carpenter duties to build, maintain and repair facilities for the Water Division.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Leads work crew of Carpenters engaged in the construction, alteration and repair of buildings, floors, roofing, stairways, partitions, doors, windows, concrete forms, and other structural woodwork.
- Determines methods of performance of work. Coordinates work with other trades. Advises on rating of crew members.
- Ensures compliance with all safety procedures and City and Water Division Work Rules.
- Ensures compliance with plans and drawings.
- Prepares "as built" drawings and sketches of completed work.
- Maintains and repairs shop tools and equipment.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform basic level of data analysis including the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize and/or reference data, statutes and/or guidelines and/or group, rank, investigate and diagnose. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established standards to recognize interactive effects and relationships.
- Human Interaction: Requires the ability to persuade, convince, influence, train and monitor co-workers, in favor of a desired outcome. Requires the ability to act as a lead person.
- Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, calibrate, tune and synchronize, and perform complex rapid adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as saws, lathe, planer, drills, power nailers, sanders, grinders, chisels, routers, heat gun, motor vehicle, measuring devices and/or related materials used in performing essential functions.
- Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of reference, descriptive and advisory data and information such as architectural drawings, shop drawings, billing invoices, maintenance reports, materials lists, technical operating manuals, work safety regulations, procedures and guidelines.
- Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, fractions and decimals; calculate surface area and volume; may require the ability to perform mathematical operations involving basic algebra, geometry and trigonometry.
- Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems such as leading, teaching and planning. Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution
- Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against measurable or verifiable criteria.
- Environmental Factors: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, toxic/poisonous agents or heights.
- Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to lift, push and pull objects up to one hundred (100) pounds to perform carpentry duties. Requires the ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, climb, balance, bend and twist while performing carpentry duties such as nailing roofs and floors, and using ladders.
- Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes, sounds and textures associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks. Incumbents are required to identify colors, shapes and textures to match colors and sand finishes; identify sounds to determine whether machines/tools are operating properly.
Qualifications
Completion of a recognized Carpentry apprenticeship program; plus three years of experience as a journeyman carpenter; OR an Associate’s degree in Carpentry and/or Building Construction Technology, or a closely related curriculum; plus five years of experience in the carpentry trade.
Candidates are required to furnish their own basic carpentry tools.
License: Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license while employed by the City of St. Louis. Must possess a valid driver's license at the time of filing application and be able to present it upon request. Please note type of license, number, class and expiration date on the Employment Application. Only qualified applicants who provide proof of a valid driver’s license will be considered for this position.
Scoring Components and Their Weights
Experience and Training: 100%
May be Subject to:
Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
Medical Examination: Pass/Fail
Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request
When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Veterans Preference Points
To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.
City Residence Preference Points
City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.
Accommodations
If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.
