Carpenter

All employees must be fully COVID-19 vaccinated and must be able to

provide verification of their vaccination status as part of the hiring and

onboarding process prior to an official offer of employment to any District

site; this includes current employees who are being promoted to a new

job class.

We are LAUSD. We are at the forefront of innovation in public schools,

with the serious work of tailoring the learning environment to better serve

our community. Here, you will have the opportunity to exercise your

potential in the business of education.

We are technical professionals, skilled workers, support staff, executives,

and community champions. We do our jobs with a sense of integrity,

accountability, and pride in shaping the future.

Our contributions here impact our number one customers - the 600,000

plus K-12 students of LAUSD. With over 1,000 job titles to choose from,

build your rewarding career here by joining nearly 30,000 employees,

and achieve new levels of success in your career!

Benefits Insurance: Paid premiums for your choice of several medical, dental,

vision, and life insurance plans. Retirement: Membership in the California

Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS).

Vacation: Two weeks of paid vacation to start. Three weeks after five

years of year-round paid service. Paid Holidays: up to 13 days.

NOTE: Positions in this job classification may be offered on a 10 or 11

month basis - salary and paid time off for 10 or 11 month positions will be

adjusted accordingly.

Job Duties/Responsibilities Please note that the duties for this position will be performed on-site and

in-person.

Carpenters perform journey-level carpentry work in the construction,

alteration, maintenance, installation, and repair of articles and structures

of wood, fiberboard, hardware, and related materials.

Some typical job duties include:

• Constructs, alters, and repairs structures related to floors, ceilings,

roofs, stairways, doors, windows, modular cabinets, and finish carpentry

components by using materials that include but are not limited to wood,

fiberboard, gypsum board, mineral tile, and metals

• Builds and sets forms for concrete construction

• Measures, saws, and installs sheathing for walls and roofs

• Covers sheathing with building paper and applies sidings

• Saws, fits, and erects exterior and interior trim

• This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities performed in

this position. For more information, please refer to the class description :

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/offices/personnel/class/class_comp/cds

/ cc3436.PDF

Minimum Requirements Education:

Graduation from high school or evidence of equivalent educational

proficiency.

Experience:

Successful completion of a recognized carpentry apprenticeship program

or five years of experience in carpentry work on buildings, one year of

which must have been at the journey level.

SPECIAL PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to stand, walk, bend, crawl, climb, reach overhead, crouch,

kneel, balance, push, pull and safely lift and carry items weighing up to

100 pounds

• Ability to work safely at heights including the use of ladders, scaffolds,

and other related equipment

• Ability to safely work in confined spaces

Desirable Qualifications The ideal candidate will have completed a four year recognized

carpentry apprenticeship program and have worked as a journey-level

Carpenter.

Further, the ideal candidate will possess broad technical skills and

knowledge of the following:

• Standard practices, processes, materials, and tools of the carpentry

trade

• Properties, adaptability, and uses of woods and other carpentry

materials

• Safety practices and regulations pertaining to the carpentry trade

• Microsoft Word and Outlook

In addition, the ideal candidate will possess the ability to:

• Safely and effectively use the tools and machines of the trade

• Read, interpret, and work from sketches, drawings, plans, and

blueprints

• Follow oral and written instructions

• Work effectively with others

• Enter and retrieve information using computers and other peripheral

equipment

Employment Selection Process The employment assessment for these positions tentatively consists of a

Performance Test.

IMPORTANT: The application deadline will be determined once we

receive a sufficient number of qualified applications to meet the hiring

needs.

Please be sure to include correspondence from @lausd.net as an

approved sender so that messages aren't accidentally placed into your

spam/junk e-mail folder.

For more information about the LAUSD employment assessment

process, visit the 'My LAUSD Career' section of our website at

http://www.lausdjobs.org .

Application Process NOTE: The application deadline will be determined once we receive

sufficient qualified applications to meet our hiring needs.

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APPLICATION?

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form" located to the left of the Quick Links.

To find out whether the application deadline has been extended, visit the

website at: http://www.lausdjobs.org .

The Los Angeles Unified School District intends that all qualified persons

shall have equal opportunities for employment and promotion.

Reasonable accommodations in completing an application and testing

are available to individuals with disabilities. Please call (213) 241-3455

for more information.

Additional Posting Information Selection and promotion are based on a competitive employment

assessment process. Candidates who pass all parts of the assessment

process are placed on a hiring (eligibility) list based on their assessment

score. Hiring departments may make job offers to candidates on the top

three ranks of the hiring list. Eligibility typically lasts for 12 months. The

hiring list resulting from this assessment process may be used to fill open

positions in related job classifications.