Locksmith

Summary

Employee will be assigned to the Carpenter Shop, Maintenance and Operations Section of Engineering Service, VA Medical Center, Poplar Bluff, MO.

The Locksmith performs work involved with repairing, overhauling, modifying, testing, and installing a variety of locking devices typically found on doors, desks, compartments, mobile equipment, safes, vaults, and other secured locations.

Duties

Duties include, but may not be limited to the following :

• Installs, programs, and maintains standard and electronic locks.
• Performs visual and operational checks to locate trouble sources and determine best methods of correcting problems.
• Removes locks, disassembles, detects worn or damaged parts, ., broken springs, jammed pins, bent discs, broken tail pieces, rust, and corrosion.
• Duplicates keys, cuts keys, and rekeys locks by using standard key coding practices.
• Maintains blank keys of all known locking devices, cuts keys required for issue and replacement as required, not maintaining extra keys, precut keys, or discarded turned-in keys.
• Seizes and reports unauthorized keys to the Chief, Engineering Service and Police Service.
• Maintains Master Keying Plans for facility.
• Installs locks in doors, desks, office furniture, safes and other units as required by approved work orders only.
• Makes necessary alterations on locking mechanisms and units to close fit.
• Replaces escutcheon and face plates on doors to change size of existing holes, measures precisely and cuts off excess spindles, and changes position of spline key to reverse lock case direction.
• Picks or neutralizes locks as required in emergency when keys are unavailable, removes broken keys from keyways, corrects door sag by tightening hinges to bring locking components into proper alignment, and makes minor adjustments to door closures and coordinates to ensure proper locking alignment.
• Maintains electronic files pertaining to key issues to include area designation and programs key control systems such as proximity alarms and physical access control systems (PACS).
• Develops and maintains a special key hardware system for use in special areas such as mental health, meeting all special requirements for these areas.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Work Schedule : Monday - Friday, 8 : 00am - 4 : 30pm.

Recruitment & Relocation Incentives : Not authorized