Locksmith

Summary This position is located in the Facilities Management Services at the Bedford VA Healthcare System in Bedford, Massachusetts. It is permanent and full-time at 40 hours per week. Responsibilities This position performs work involved with 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. Duties include, but are not limited to: Manufactures and duplicates keys and the keying and combination of locking mechanisms; Establishes master keying systems and neutralizes lockouts; Determines precise locations and angles for drilling without harming the contents or causing irrevocable damage to the locking mechanisms or containers; Designs and installs locks and integrated locking systems (e.g. including electronic panic button interfaces, etc.); Uses a variety of tools and skills to work with total accuracy to preclude the destruction of expensi...