This position is located in the Department of Homeland Security, US Coast Guard, Industrial Department, Structural Group in Baltimore, MD.

Duties

You will be responsible for leading a group of employees who perform all kinds of trade tasks involved in constructing, repairing, or renovating a wide variety of types and sizes of marine craft and vessels.Being a civilian working for the Coast Guard makes you a valuable team member. Typical duties include:* Performing all kinds of sheetmetal, boat joiner tasks including working from blueprints, drawings, and specifications.* Providing draft marking, boot-topping lines, numerals, and identification slash markings; aligns and sets peloruses, compasses.* Constructing staging for ship work, building temporary wood supports and shoring of various kinds.* Providing and maintaining ladders, access gangways, safety railings and covers, step stools, protective coverings and tarpaulins and miscellaneous crating and uncrating.* Removing, preparing decks and installing ceramic tile, vinyl tile, vinyl matting, latex underlayments, terrazzo, cement, epoxy decks, etc.* Building various supporting structures for ship while it is under construction; building fixed ways, sliding ways, launching cradle and cushioning structures in preparation for launching.* Installing joiner coamings and furrings, nomex panels and aluminum bulkhead and ceiling paneling, locker and furniture foundations, and all furniture and furnishings.* Cutting, punching, drilling and otherwise shaping sheetmetal using shears, rolls, saws, brakes, bending machines and other metal forming machines.* Reviewing job orders, schedules, and other requests for services and discusses same with his/her supervisor.* Inspecting work in progress to assure that satisfactory standards for quality and quantity are met.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Applicant is required to meet the physical requirements of the position.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.

Qualifications

Applicants will be evaluated on their ability to perform the duties of the position rather than the length of experience. Eligibility will be determined by the relevance, scope, and quality of all experience and training, regardless of where or how acquired.Applicants will be rated and ranked based on their knowledge of the following job elements:1. Ability to do the work of the position without more than normal supervision. (SCREENOUT)2. Knowledge of equipment assembly, installation, repair, etc.3. Technical practices (theoretical, precise, artistic)4. Ability to interpret instructions, specifications, etc.5. Knowledge of materialsNational Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

This position does not have a positive education requirement. If you are including education on your resume, report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. See Required Documents section for detail.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. See Recognition of Foreign Qualifications click here

Contacts

• Address United States Coast Guard 2703 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE STOP 7120 Washington, District of Columbia 20593 United States
• Name: USCG Applicant Support
• Phone: 866-656-6830
• Email: [email protected]