A Carpenter is responsible for constructing, installing, and repairing structures and fixtures made of wood, plywood, and other materials. They work on a variety of projects, from building frames for houses and commercial buildings to installing cabinets, doors, and flooring. A carpenter must be skilled in using tools, reading blueprints, and working with different types of materials to create precise and sturdy work. This role requires a combination of technical skills, attention to detail, and physical strength.

1. Preventative Maintenance & Repair

• Ensures that periodic equipment maintenance is carried out in order to control hospital and department costs and ensure the conservation of all hospital resources.
• Acts as a substitute for departmental staff until replacements arrive in an effort to ensure prudent departmental management and promote departmental effectiveness.
• Productivity
• Determines and solves problems concerning delays in work schedules in an effort to ensure timely and efficient project completion. Inspects work in progress in order to ensure job specification conformance.
• Always strives to make good use of time; seeks out more effective ways to complete task. Reasonably completes all duties scheduled during the work day without interference to the quality of work. Calculates quantity of materials needed for a job, ensures that supplies are available at all times.
• Assists in developing and recommending annual department operating and capital budgets and monitors the economical use and procurement of personnel, equipment, and supplies.
• Other Duties as Assigned
• Maintains work area in a neat, orderly and efficient manner at all times.
• Demostrates a complete understanding of all policies and procedures and accepted construction methods.
• Continually strives to learn and develop systems to prevent breakdown of equipment.
• Attends inhouse educational programs that are relative to the established carpenter duties.
• Consistently notifies supervisor of possible problem areas.
• Consistently demonstrates the ability to assess a situation and choose appropriate course of action.

2 years building/hospital maintenance experience
Education
Post High School Vocational/Specialized Training
Special Skills
Working knowledge of all crafts Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching Frequent prolonged standing/walking Pushes/pulls or moves/lifts heavy equipment/supplies.

Our Lady of the Lake is uniquely capable of caring for a full range of illness or injury, including those that are extremely complex, for both pediatric and adult patients. Our family of services includes:

• An 988-bed hospital and the area’s only Level II Trauma Center
• A freestanding Children’s Hospital
• A 545-provider care network covering more than 40 specialties
• Two free-standing emergency rooms—Our Lady of the Lake Livingston and Our Lady of the Lake North
• A network of nearly 15 urgent care clinics
• Outpatient imaging and surgery centers
• Assumption Community Hospital
• Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University
• Our Lady of the Lake Ascension , a 78-bed, community hospital providing emergency, inpatient, outpatient, and surgical services to Ascension Parish and surrounding areas

We serve 38,000 inpatients and 820,000 outpatients annually and are committed to building a healthy community through excellence in patient care and education. A part of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, Our Lady of the Lake is consistently awarded for compassionate care, clinical expertise, leading edge technology and innovation

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