Locksmith

Locksmith Position

This Locksmith position is aligned under the Architectural Shop/Section in the Facilities Management Division at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee, WI. The work involves repairing, overhauling, modifying, testing, and installing a variety of locking devices typically found on doors, desks, compartments, mobile equipment, safes, vaults, and other secured locations. The work extends beyond the duplication requests of keys and the keying/combinating of locking mechanisms. Additionally, the work involves construction, altering, maintaining, and repairing buildings, structures, partitions, panels, and other items using wood, wood substitutes, and composite building materials.

Major Duties:

• Performs the full range of work in the installation, repair, maintenance and modification of a wide variety of commercial locking devices with varying makes and models found in doors, desks, safes, vaults, compartments, mobile equipment, and secured areas.
• Provides expertise and advice and recommendations to management on the most appropriate locking device capabilities/systems for specific security requirements and application.
• Attends seminars and carefully reviews trade journals, catalogs, regulations and manuals to maintain expert knowledge.
• Responsible for the development and maintaining records, including data entry and updating key information in the space files, files, lists of requirements and installations, etc.
• Coordinates work with personnel in other shops or trades.
• Develops and maintains a special key hardware system for use in special areas such as mental health, HOPTEL, meeting all special requirements for these areas.
• Carpentry tasks such as alterations and/or remodeling which include removing and installing partitions, additions to buildings, opening of walls for installation of doors and windows, cut and sets concrete forms, lay out and cut roof rafters and joist's, lay out fabricate and install stairs.
• Reads, interprets, and works from construction drawings and blueprints, both common and complex, and/or oral instructions from the Unit Supervisor to cut lumber to size for ceiling and floor plates, studs, braces headers, framework for doors and windows, including headers and anchors.
• Performs inspection and repair of fire and smoke barriers on the campus.

Work Schedule:

Full-time, Monday-Friday, 7 AM-3:30 PM, may be required to be present to provide off-hours emergency support. *The position is AWS eligible for 8 - 9 hr days, 1 - 8 hr day and one day off a pay period, the day off being a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.