Plumber

What You’ll Do

• Serves as lead worker (e.g., provides work direction and training) over plumbers or trades workers and/or inmates engaged in plumbing work. Installs, modifies and repairs new and existing plumbing (e.g., unclogs commodes, sinks and sewage lines, replaces traps, valves and thermostats).
• Installs water, steam and gas lines and hooks up laundry, laboratory and kitchen equipment
• Maintains building facilities and equipment (e.g., checks pipes, plumbing and fixtures for signs of corrosion)
• Checks and lubricates pumps and valves and changes filters
• Makes minor repair on steam lines
• Performs support duties related to plumbing (e.g., order supplies, materials and equipment)
• Reads blueprints, prepares job estimates, maintains job records and prepares reports
• Establish and conduct preventive maintenance programs for plumbing systems and equipment
• Serves on institutional committees
• Attends training, seminars and/or meetings as required
• Performs security functions as required (e.g., man-down, shakedown, inmate movement)

Qualifications:

• 18 mos. trg. or 18 mos. verifiable work exp. in plumbing under supervision of experienced plumber; formal education in arithmetic that includes fractions & percentages & in reading & writing common English vocabulary.
• Or 6 mos. exp. as Plumber 1, 52261.
• Or equivalent of Minimum Class Qualifications For Employment noted above.

Job

Skills:

Plumbing Trade, General Maintenance, Building Maintenance, Problem Solving, Flexibility, Time Management