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Open: March 31, 2026 — Closes: April 9, 2026
Summary
This position is located in Independence National Historical Park within the Facility Maintenance Division, which also supports the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site, Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial, and Gloria Dei (Old Swedes) Church National Historic Site. The position performs journey-level carpentry work essential to the preservation, maintenance, and repair of a wide range of historic and modern structures using wood, wood substitutes, and composite materials.
Major Duties
Performs construction, alteration, installation, repair, and modification of structural and finish components, including frameworks, rafters, concrete forms, walls, doors, finished paneling, window frames, interior and exterior trim, staircases, trusses, beams, and related items (e.g., workbenches, countertops, bookcases, equipment cabinets, and computer consoles), where precision, spacing, fit, structural soundness, and appearance are critical. Serves as an inspector on contracted work and on work performed by employees below the journeyman level, ensuring compliance with applicable standards and specifications. Constructs, rehabilitates, modifies, and assembles structures from blueprints, sketches, and verbal instructions, including frameworks, rafters, doors, finished paneling, windows, interior and exterior trim, staircases, trusses, beams, small buildings, and interior building finishes. Repairs doors, windows, wood and wood-substitute materials, exterior siding, flooring, and interior finishes as part of stabilization and restoration efforts to ensure completeness and structural integrity; repairs roof sheathing and rafters as required. Fabricates duplicate replacements for deteriorated wood components, including moldings, beams, timbers, and stairways, ensuring precision in complex angle and curved cuts. This is a term position (more than 1 year) with an initial appointment expecting to last at least 13 months but may be extended up to a total of four years, or more based on any changes to regulations governing the number of years term appointments may last, without further competition. Term positions do not convey permanent status in the Federal service. The National Park Service retains the right to extend the duration of this appointment after selection and/or appointment, based on changes to the regulation governing the number of years term appointments may last. This change, which may be made at the agency's sole discretion and without further competition, shall not be construed or interpreted as the granting of a right to a selectee or employee to such an extension. No extension to a term appointment shall be granted to a selectee/employee to an amount of time that exceeds the maximum number of years authorized under any present or current regulation, unless such regulation expressly allows such action.
