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Human Resources Office - Vacancy Announcement

Locksmith – Metal Worker FP-AA*; FSN-4**

OPEN TO: All Interested Applicants

WORK HOURS: Full Time 40 Hrs/Week

SALARY:

*Not Ordinarily Resident: Final grade and salary to be determined by EUR/EX.
**Ordinarily Resident: **Ordinarily Resident: HUF 2,384,289 – 2,980,357 gross p.a. + benefits + 13. salary

(See definition of these terms at the end of this announcement)

NOTE: TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR CONSIDERATION, All “ORDINARILY RESIDENT” APPLICANTS MUST BE RESIDING IN HUNGARY AND MUST HAVE THE REQUIRED WORK AND/OR RESIDENCE PERMITS.

The Human Resources Office (HR) is accepting applications from All Interested Applicants for the position of Temporary Locksmith/Metal Worker at the Facilities Management (FM).

BASIC FUNCTION OF POSITION:

The incumbent serves as a skilled journeyman level metalworker. S/he is responsible for installation and repair of locks, fences and doors and all types of metal work in Embassy buildings and annexes. The locksmith fabricates new work from rough drawings and makes shop drawings as necessary to perform his/her duties.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

NOTE: All applicants should address each of the selection criteria detailed below by providing specific and comprehensive information in support of each item.

1. Education: Completion of a vocational school, or apprenticeship recognized as producing journeyman mechanical skills, or equivalent experience, is required.

2. Experience: Four years of journeyman locksmith experience in the trade of primary expertise, plus some semi-skilled experience in other trade areas is required.

3. Language: Level I (Rudimentary knowledge) English and Hungarian Level IV language for both speaking and writing ability is required.

4. Knowledge: Must have a full journeyman metalworker's knowledge of trade practices and procedures in the primary trade.  Must be able to work with metal work machines and knowledge of metal. Must be a certified gas and electrical welder.

5. Skills & Abilities: Knowledge of metal work machines; acceptable oral communication skills in English; good interpersonal skills and good relationship with colleagues. Must know how to operate various power tools and other trades equipment and tools. Must lift up 35 pounds if needs, and how to use ladder or scaffold for painting works. Must have Hungarian “B” driving license.

SELECTION PROCESS:

When equally qualified, US Citizen Eligible Family Members (AEFMs) and U.S. Veterans will be given preference. Therefore, it is essential that the candidate address the required qualifications above in the application.

ADDITIONAL SELECTION CRITERIA:

1. Management will consider nepotism/conflict of interest, budget, and residency status in determining successful candidacy.

2. Current employees serving a probationary period are not eligible to apply.

3. Eligible Family Members (EFM) who currently hold an FMA appointment are ineligible to apply for advertised positions within the first 90 calendar days of their appointment.

TO APPLY:

Interested applicants for this position should submit the following:

1. Employment Application:
-- Ordinarily Resident Applicants: an Application for Employment as a Locally Engaged Staff Member.
-- Not-Ordinarily Resident Applicants: a DS-1950 U.S. Department of State Application for Employment

2. Any other documentation (e.g., essays, certificates, awards, licenses, copies of degrees earned, letters of recommendation) that addresses the qualification requirements of the position as listed above.

NOTE: A current résumé or curriculum vitae that provides the same information as the DS-1950 or the Application for Employment as a Locally Engaged Staff Member may be submitted; however, completion of one of these forms will be necessary prior to an interview and/or a final offer of employment. Copies of either the DS-1950 or the Application for Employment as a Locally Engaged Staff Member are available from the Office of Human Resources.

APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO:

The Office of Human Resources
Attention: Zita Kovács
American Embassy
Szabadság tér 12
1054 Budapest Hungary

POINT OF CONTACT:

Name: Zita Kovács
Telephone: 475-4408
Fax: 475-4520
Only those applications received by the closing date of this vacancy announcement will be eligible for consideration.

THE CLOSING DATE FOR THIS POSITION: October 14, 2008.

DEFINITIONS:

1. Eligible Family Member (EFM): U.S. citizen spouse or U.S. citizen child as referred to in 6 FAM 111.3, para R, (1) who is at least age 18, and who, in either case, is on the travel orders of a U.S. citizen Foreign or Civil Service employee or military service member permanently assigned to or stationed at a U.S. Foreign Service post or establishment abroad and under Chief of Mission authority.

2. Member of Household (MOH): Non-U.S. citizen spouses, dependent children not on the employees travel orders, unmarried partners of the same and opposite sex, parents, other relatives or adult children declared as an MOH to the Chief of Mission in writing but who fall outside the Department’s current legal and statutory definition of EFM.

3. Ordinarily Resident (OR): A citizen of the host country or a citizen of another country who has shifted the main residency focus to the host country (either permanently or temporarily) and would require work and/or residency permit to be employed in country. Any Ordinarily Resident American will receive a salary that is no less than U.S. minimum wage.

4. Not-Ordinarily Resident (NOR): Typically NORs are U.S. citizen Eligible Family Members and family members of Foreign Service, Civil Service, and military personnel who are on travel orders and under the Chief of Mission authority, or other personnel having diplomatic privileges and immunities.

All offers of employment are based on availability of funding.

The U.S. Government is an Equal Opportunity Employer.