CARPENTER - Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health Board : Job Details

Job Summary:The Carpenter in a health clinic setting is responsible for the construction, repair, and maintenance of the facility's structural components to ensure a safe and efficient environment for patients, staff, and visitors. The role includes performing routine and emergency carpentry tasks, such as installing and repairing walls, ceilings, doors, cabinets, and other clinic fixtures. The carpenter works in compliance with health and safety regulations and ensures that all carpentry work meets the clinic's standards for hygiene and infection control.Essential Functions: Follow established safety rules and regulations and maintain a safe and clean environment. Study specifications in blueprints, sketches, or building plans to prepare project layout and determine dimensions and materials required. Measure and mark cutting lines on materials, using a ruler, pencil, chalk, and marking gauge. Shape or cut materials to specified measurements, using hand tools, machines, or power saws. Install structures or fixtures, such as windows, frames, floorings, trim, or hardware, using carpenters' hand or power tools. Construct, install, and repair structural elements including doors, walls, cabinets, shelving, and other clinic fixtures. Perform regular inspections and preventative maintenance to ensure structural integrity and safety compliance. Work with other departments, including maintenance and clinical staff, to ensure minimal disruption to clinic operations during repairs. Adhere to health, safety, and infection control protocols, especially in sensitive medical areas. Respond to urgent repair requests to ensure that critical areas such as patient rooms, treatment areas, and public spaces are maintained to the highest standards. Assist with remodeling, expansions, or renovations in alignment with clinic growth or updated facility needs. Perform other duties as needed.Professional Behavior: Effectively plan, organize workload, and schedule time to meet the demands of the position. Work in a cooperative and professional manner with OHC and GPTLHB staff. Treat Great Plains tribes and collaborators with dignity and respect. Utilize effective verbal and written communication skills. Advance personal educational development by attending training sessions and seminars as appropriate. Exemplify excellent customer service with tribal stakeholders, health board colleagues, program partners, service recipients, visitors, and guests. Foster a work environment of wellness, courtesy, friendliness, helpfulness, and respect. Relate well and work collaboratively with coworkers and all levels of staff in a professional manner. Consistently demonstrate respect for and acceptance of differing capabilities, cultures, gender, age, sexual orientation, and/or personalities. Maintain and ensure organizational privacy and confidentiality. Handle crisis and tolerate stress professionally. Be self-directed and take proactive initiative to assist others. Resolve issues with other departments and coworkers without direct supervision if needed. Exercise flexibility to alter plans/routines when situations require and continue to perform without projecting stress/frustration that would adversely affect the work environment. Promote an alcohol, tobacco, and drug-free lifestyle. Embrace modes of appearance and attire that reflect a professional presence. Adhere to GPTLHB policies and procedures. Other duties as assigned by the Supervisor Requirements: Participates in Core Connections training and applies GPTLHB Core Connections concepts and practices in their work. Familiarity and/or experience working with American Indian populations and respect for and knowledge of traditional, cultural, and spiritual practices of diverse American Indian communities, as well as an ability to work with other culturally and ethnically diverse populations. Possess the ability to resolve issues with other departments and coworkers without direct supervision. Able to exercise flexibility to alter plans/routines when situations require and continue to perform without projecting stress/frustration that would adversely affect the work environment. Ability to maintain a flexible work schedule, including evenings, weekends and overnight or extended travel as necessary. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to community members, relatives, and employees of the organization. Proficiency with computer programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and other Internet technologies. Valid driver's license must be kept current, and certificates, credentials or licenses must be kept current and consistent with regulations required by applicable federal, state and/or grant regulations.Supervisory Controls:The supervisor makes assignments by defining objectives, priorities, and deadlines and assists the employee with unusual situations that do not have clear precedents.The employee plans and carries out the successive steps and handles problems and deviations in the work assignments in accordance with instructions, policies, previous training, the scope of license/certification, or accepted practices in the occupation.Completed work is usually evaluated for technical soundness, appropriateness, and conformity to policy and requirements. The methods used in arriving at the end results are not usually reviewed in detail. Guidelines: There are established procedures for doing the work and a number of specific guidelines are available as a resource. The employee may be required to use judgment in locating and selecting the most appropriate guidelines, references, and procedures for application and in making minor deviations to adapt the guidelines to specific cases. The employee may also determine which of several established alternatives to use. Situations to which the existing guidelines cannot be applied or significant proposed deviations from the guidelines are referred to the supervisor. Complexity:The work includes some variations and may involve different and unrelated processes and methods. The decision regarding what needs to be done depends upon the analysis of the subject, phase, or issues involved in each assignment, and the chosen course of action may have to be selected from many alternatives.The work involves conditions and elements that must be identified and analyzed to discern interrelationships. Scope and Effect:The work involves treating a variety of conventional problems, questions, or situations in conformance with established criteria. The work product or service affects the design or operation of systems, programs, or equipment; the adequacy of such; the social, physical, and economic well-being of people; or the social or economic well-being of the organization. Personal Contacts:The personal contacts are with individuals or groups from outside the organization in a moderately unstructured setting. For example, contacts are not established on a routine basis and the purpose and extent of each contact is different. Purpose of Contacts:The purpose is to plan, coordinate, or advise on work efforts, or to resolve operating problems by influencing or motivating individuals or groups who are working toward mutual goals and who have basically cooperative attitudes. Physical Demands:The work requires considerable and strenuous physical exertion, such as frequent climbing of tall ladders, lifting heavy objects over fifty pounds, crouching, or crawling in restricted areas, and defending oneself or others against physical attack. The employee must be able to read, write, speak, and hear.Work Environment:The work environment involves high risks with exposure to potentially dangerous situations or unusual environmental stress that require a range of safety and other precautions, e.g., working at great heights under extreme outdoor weather conditions, subject to possible physical attack or mob conditions, or similar situations where conditions cannot be controlled. Supervisory and Management Responsibility:This is a non-supervisory position that may provide functional direction, guidance, and instruction to other employees when necessary. This position possesses authority to assign, coordinate, and review quality and quantity of work of other employees. Instructs employees in specific techniques or technical methods for accomplishing work assignments. The employee may perform the same type of work as other employees but may be responsible for performance of the more technically difficult, controversial, or sensitive work assigned to the unit or group.Direct Reports:None.Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:High school diploma or GED and one (1) year of experience.This position requires no post-secondary education. Qualified individuals must have relevant experience demonstrating knowledge of basic or commonly used rules, procedures, or operations that typically require completion of training program or one (1) year of relevant experience.Preferred Experience Requirements:2 years Commercial experience or 1 year HealthcareThe GPTLHB is a tribal organization that follows tribal preference laws. Our policy is to give preference to qualified Indian/Tribal candidates over qualified non-native candidates in hiring decisions if all other qualifications are equal. Employment is contingent upon the outcome of all required criminal background checks.