Locksmith

This position is located within Engineering Service at the Palo Alto Health Care System in Palo Alto, California.

Qualifications:

PHYSICAL EFFORT AND WORK CONDITIONS: Work requires good coordination and good physical condition. Locksmith is required to make inspection/appraisals from ladders, scaffolding, platforms, and other hard to reach places. Required to walk, stand, stoop, bend, kneel, climb, crawl and work in uncomfortable positions and to pull, push, reach over the shoulder and lift supplies and/or equipment weighing up too 100 pounds. Must have rapid mental and muscular coordination simultaneously, good hearing, depth perception, and the ability to distinguish basic colors and shades of colors. Glasses are permitted. Work is both outside and inside in areas of medium to excessive heat, cold, humidity, dampness or chilling areas that have intermittent noise, dust, fumes, grease, dirt, oils, with exposure to electrical wires and energy. Areas may be slippery and/or uneven surfaces, in equipment rooms, tunnels, crawl spaces, penthouse, overhead catwalks, scaffolding and/or in tight areas such as manholes and electrical equipment closets.

Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications. For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for. Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration. The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements. While a specific length of training and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume.

You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position:

• Equipment Assembly, Installation, Repair
• Interpret Instructions, Specifications (includes blueprint reading)
• Measuring Instruments
• Technical Practices
• Troubleshooting
• Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
• Without more than normal supervision

IMPORTANT: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. All experience listed on your resume must include the month and year start/end dates. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Responsibilities:

Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Repairs, installs, recombinates and adjusts all types of locks and locking devices;
• Cuts keys, changes combinations, and opens locks and locking devices by picking, manipulating and/or drilling, and/or other methods;
• Recombinates door locks and cuts keys from matrix and/or written instructions without using master or duplicate keys;
• Installs, repairs, or replaces building hardware including door closers, locks, hinges, door stops, etc.;
• Sets master key systems as required for small group of locks such as patient lockers;
• Reads and interprets blueprints and sketches, manufactures literature, installation diagrams and templates;
• Adheres to proper safety practices at all times, and to encourage proper safety practices among fellow employees;
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm
Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not approved
LICENSE REQUIREMENT: Applicants to this vacancy must possess a current U.S. Driver's License. Applicants who do not possess the required license are ineligible for further consideration. Possession of this license must be reflected on your resume to receive credit for your response. Do not upload a picture of your driver's license with your application materials; if selected for interview you will be asked to provide a copy of the license at that time.

Salary : $34 - $40