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THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.
This National Guard position is for a WOOD WORKER (Title 32), Position Description Number D1218000 and is part of the OK CSMS, Oklahoma Army National Guard.
02/04/2025 to 04/01/2025
$26.36 - $30.75 per hour
WG 8
1 vacancy in the following location:
No
No
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
No
Permanent
Full-time
Excepted
8
No
No
OK-12682989-AR-25-014
830175400
This position is open to current members of the Oklahoma Army National Guard within the military grades of E-3 through E-7.
This position is located in the Joint Forces Headquarters-State, Logistics Directorate (J-4), SurfaceMaintenance Facility. The primary purpose of this position is to perform the full range of standard and nonstandard wood working duties in support of maintenance activities.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Plans, constructs, and repairs a wide range of custom wood containers, parts, and items, of irregular shapes and sizes, in support of maintenance activities. These items include shipping crates, storage boxes, toolboxes, parts bins, dividers, automotive equipment, truck beds, special equipment cases, etc. May revisestandard items to fabricate products. In addition, plans and constructs furniture braces, Formica desktops, counter tops, credenzas, bookcases, etc., where concern for final appearance of work in required.
Resolves complex construction problems and uses special bracing requirements for heavy items (automotive equipment, truck beds), sensitive equipment and items (hazardous materials), delicate and sensitive electronic equipment (calibration items), etc. Utilizes shop plans, blueprints, and item specifications to develop bracing points based on weight, gravity points, method of shipment, potential for shifting or damage, etc.
Plans and lays out work and materials in accordance with blueprints, drawings, and specifications; and knowledge of custom wood and wood substitute items. Measures and selects proper materials and tools. Determines the type and extent of construction or repair necessary to modify and restore standard and nonstandard containers.
Sets up and uses a variety of stationary power tools to make construction features such as joints and grooves, e.g., rabbetted edge lap joints; tongue and grove and doweled edge joints; end lap joints; dado and dado rabbet grooves and joints; and locked corners. Sets up, adjusts, and adapts hand and power tools and devices to measure, cut, fit, join, and install wooden parts.
Maintains and performs operator preventive maintenance on tools and equipment, to include lubrication of power tools and sharpening of saw blades.
Military Grades: E3 through E7
GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Experience or training which demonstrates the ability to use hand and powered tools, machines, and measuring and squaring devices to cut, nail, staple, screw, bolt or fasten wood and wood-like boards, sheets, parts or sections.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:
Experience or training in the full range of woodworking techniques to plan, construct, and repair standardized shipping and storage containers. Experience measuring, developing and laying out changes to existing container plans where specially shaped items require unconventional cradles, blocks, braces or cushioning. Experience making standard joints and grooves. Experience with a wide range of packing methods and techniques. Experience in combining and modifying existing plans for conventional containers to construct irregular shaped containers. Experience using standard manual and power woodworking tools. Experience with various types and properties of hard and soft woods and wood composite materials enabling them to select appropriate material. Experience with various types and properties of fastening devices.
Thorough knowledge of woodworking techniques to improvise or modify construction plans and patterns to construct custom containers and storage items from wood and wood substitute materials. Skill in making nonstandard containers that incorporate several irregular shapes, sizes, and features.
Skill in operating woodworking machines to make varied and complex construction features, such as, wood lathes, table saws, radial arm saws, planners, joiners, circular saw, jig saws, band saws, compound miter saws, drill presses, routers; belt, vibrating, and oscillating rotary sanders, pneumatic nail guns, staplers, grinders, and various hand tools of the trade.
Thorough knowledge of the characteristics of hard and soft woods and wood substitutes used in container construction and repair. Ability to determine the type and extent of construction or repair necessary to modify and restore standard and nonstandard containers.
Skill in bracing and making structural alterations for specialized containers. Skill in determining the weight supports of large, heavy, unbalanced, and irregularly shaped items to make and place supports to prevent such items from shifting during transit or storage.
Ability to read and interpret blue prints, drawings, and specifications to fabricate and/or repair required end products.
There is no substitution of education for specialized experience for this position.
If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency (Register | Selective Service System : Selective Service System (sss.gov)).
This position may be eligible for Union Membership.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Once the announcement has closed, your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine if you meet the qualifications listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documentation will be compared to your responses on the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If you rate yourself higher than is supported by your application package, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from consideration for this position. If you are found to be among the top qualified candidates, you will be referred to the selecting official for employment consideration.
Your qualifications will be evaluated on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics): Technical Competence
To apply for this position, you must submit a complete Application Package which includes:
1. Your resume:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
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