Seasonal Wood Crafter

Seasonal Wood Crafter

Department: Department of the Interior

Location(s): Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Salary Range: $31.79 - $37.14 Per Hour

Job Summary: This position is responsible for the proper preservation and maintenance of historic, recreation, and modern wooden building components and features, as well as furniture and exhibit items, and locks.

Major Duties:

• **INITIAL CUT OFF IS Tuesday, 17 March 2026**This is an open continuous vacancy announcement. Applicants will be referred periodically throughout the announcement period. Final application disposition will be completed once all positions have been filled or the announcement reaches the end of the open period stated in the announcement. The first cut-off date is 11:59 pm (est), March 17, 2026. Performs complex carpentry and fine woodworking involving the construction, repair, restoration, and reproduction of high-grade furniture, cabinetry, architectural millwork, and decorative woodwork for use in offices and historic buildings, where accuracy, fit, and appearance are critical. Plans, lays out, and fabricates wood components and assemblies by interpreting blueprints, shop drawings, sketches, and preservation standards; selects appropriate materials, tools, and methods; and produces closely dimensioned work using precise joinery and finish techniques. Repairs, alters, installs, and maintains structural and finish carpentry elements of buildings and structures, including framing, floors, doors, windows, trim, cabinets, shelving, and related features, ensuring structural integrity, proper fit, weather-tightness, and visual compatibility with historic construction. Designs and constructs custom fixtures, jigs, templates, and special tools to accomplish non-standard or highly detailed woodworking and carpentry tasks, and operates and maintains a wide range of woodworking machinery, power tools, and hand tools. Leads and provides technical guidance to assigned workers by explaining work methods, demonstrating techniques, ensuring adherence to safety and preservation requirements, and coordinating work with architects, preservation specialists, and other trades as required. Physical Demands: Work requires frequent walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, climbing, bending, reaching, stretching, crouching, and awkward positions. Performs strenuous work while standing or sitting and often in uncomfortable positions in limited access areas. Considerable arm movement is required when nailing, using handsaws, planes, screwdrivers, drills, and shop mounted woodworking equipment. Works from ladders, scaffolds, and lifts at various heights up to 125 feet. Frequently lifts, carries, and sets up tools, equipment and parts that weigh up to 50 pounds of various shapes and sizes. Occasionally may lift and carry items in excess of 50 pounds or items that have an irregular shape or size. Often puts forth similar effort in pushing, pulling, turning and positioning parts, assemblies, equipment and tools. Often lifts and moves heavier items with the assistance of other workers, and with lifting devices such as jacks, hoists, forklifts, etc Working Conditions: Incumbent will be required to work in offices, workshops, industrial, or mechanical spaces, inside or outside in all types of weather, in clean or dirty, quiet or noisy, hot or cold, conditions and tight spaces. May be exposed to grease, exhaust, foul smells and malodorous conditions, broken bones, strains, sprains, cuts, bruises, burns, and falling or slipping hazards. May be exposed to eye, skin, nose, and lung irritations from glue, bonding chemicals, vapors, splinters, and sawdust. Frequently exposed to the possibility of receiving cuts and serious injuries, such as loss of fingers, from accidents while operating woodworking machines. Requires caution in working with moving parts during operation of equipment. Required to wear appropriate personnel protective equipment. Required to work during snow, other emergencies, or special events to ensure the operational readiness of equipment before, during and after weather related, emergency, or special events. May be exposed to extreme outdoor and/or indoor temperatures ranging from below 0F to over 100F.

Qualifications: To qualify for this position, you must have sufficient knowledge and ability in the following job-related factors: Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision (SCREEN OUT) Ability To Interpret Instructions, Specification, etc. (includes blueprints reading) Ability To Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment Knowledge of Equipment Assembly, Installation Repair, etc. Knowledge of materials Measurement and Layout Technical Practices (theoretical precise, artistic) If your knowledge and ability in the SCREEN OUT factor above is not sufficient, you will receive no further consideration. In preparing your application, describe in detail the experience and training which you have had that specifically prepared you for this job and to perform the duties described for this job. Experience should be clearly described and documented in your resume. The qualifications reviewer will not assume performance of such duties by Job Titles alone. Address your knowledge, skills and/or abilities in the areas shown in the job-related factors. 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.

How to Apply: To apply for this position: You must complete the occupational questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. To receive consideration, the complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 05/05/2026.You must provide documentation to support your claim for each eligibility selected. Please review the required documentation listed in the eligibilities language to ensure you submit the appropriate information. Note: You will only be marked eligible for those eligibilities that you selected and provided the appropriate supporting documentation. WE DO NOT ACCEPT HARD-COPY OR E-MAIL APPLICATION PACKAGES. Select Apply. If you are not logged in, you will be prompted to login or create an account. Prompted to Start the Application Process by selecting "Start Application." Click here for USAJobs Help with "How to create an application" To PREVIEW the application questionnaire, select the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12896982 Select or add the resume you want to use for this application. Click here on how to build a resume in USAJOBS. Select documents you want included in this application. Review package to acknowledge your documents were reviewed. Select if you want to include your demographic information. After reading and certifying the application is true and submitted in good faith, select "Continue to Agency Site." Follow onscreen prompts and instructions to complete your application. Add the supporting documents by indexing your documents with the dropdown. Upload any missing required documents or optional documents. Review and Submit Application. While logged in, you can check the status of your application by selecting "+" next to the job title for this position. You can review or revise your application at any point during the open period of the announcement. To update an application, you should log into your USAJOBS account and select "+" next to the job title for this position. Select "Update Application" for this job. Note: When you click Update Application, you will be prompted to re-select your documents from USAJOBS. Documents submitted with the first application will no longer be associated with the applicant record. So it is important that you select all documents you want to use in the re-application.

Application Deadline: 2026-05-05