Job Abstract

The Carpenter performs a variety of duties related to general maintenance work. This includes building new walls and ceilings, modifying and maintaining all interior spaces, exterior building spaces, and roofs. This is an essential position for the maintenance and operation of the campus and will respond to emergencies. The Carpenter reports directly to the Maintenance Supervisor.

Essential Functions:
Constructs, alters, repairs and maintains doors, roofs, windows, furniture, scaffolds, concrete forms and other structural components of buildings using hand and power tools such as drills, joiners, sanders, saws, and other equipment of the carpentry trade.

Removes walls, repairs walls, installs partitions and steps; renovates rooms within buildings using hand and power tools. Prepares walls for paint and completes painting as needed. Installs and furnishes dry wall, wood paneling, siding and other prefabricated materials. Installs wood, ceramic, resilient, or cement floors. Installs glass, ceiling, windows and doors. Fits, installs and maintains finished hardware such as closures and kick plates.

Operates, maintains, and ensures adequate supplies, tools, power tools, and equipment. Reviews blueprints and work orders to determine materials needed for assigned work. Performs routine maintenance and repairs of structural components of campus buildings. Responds to repair requests, troubleshoot problems and make necessary repairs as needed.

Participates in all essential weather related operations including snow and ice removal. Participates in on-call rotations, and responds to emergency calls.

This is a full time position scheduled to work: Monday through Friday 7:30am to 4pm, with 1 hour for lunch.

Physical and Environmental Demands Include:

Work involves regular performance of heavier physical tasks such as walking over rough or uneven surfaces, bending, stooping, working in confined space, and lifting or carrying moderately heavy (20-50 pounds) items and occasionally very heavy (I00 pounds or over) items.

The work environment involves exposure to various elements such as chemicals, dust, fumes, cold, heat, noise, vibrations, or dampness, where work exposes the employee to potentially non-disabling injuries. Duties require that work be performed in adverse weather conditions. Work may require exposure to dangerous equipment and machinery . Work may requires use of protective clothing or gear such as earplugs, hard hats, mask, gloves, insulated clothing, boots, coats, etc. Ability to work from ladders and scaffolding.

Carpentry experience 5-8 years
Vocational or technical training

Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit, Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, Loyola inspires students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world. Loyola’s beautiful, historic Evergreen campus is located in Baltimore, and its graduate centers are in Timonium and Columbia. Loyola enrolls 4,000 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students across the Sellinger School of Business and Management, the School of Education, and Loyola College of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1852, Loyola is one of 27 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States and the first to bear the name of Saint Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus.

Loyola University Maryland strongly values the benefits that diversity brings to the workplace. In accord with its Ignatian values, the University is committed to creating and promoting a community that recognizes the inherent value and dignity of each person. Loyola University Maryland does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military status, or any other legally protected classification. The University recruits, hires, and promotes in accord with this policy and its Core Values.

Successful candidates for any staff, faculty, or administrative position at Loyola University Maryland will be subject to a pre-employment background check. Note: In some cases, experience and/or education may be substituted for requirements.