Plumber

POSITION

Plumber

$53.56 Hourly

Application close date:
The application filing deadline will be established once we receive sufficient qualified candidates to meet our hiring needs.

• Insurance:
  Paid premiums for your choice of several medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.
• Retirement:
  Membership in the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS).
• Vacation:
  Full-time employees earn up to two weeks of paid vacation to start. Three weeks after five years of year-round paid service.
• Paid Holidays:
  Up to 13 days.

We are LAUSD. We are at the forefront of innovation in public education, focused on a clear and inspiring vision of the future for all of our students as they venture forward on their journey as lifelong learners. Here, you will have the opportunity to exercise your potential in a role supporting the business of education. Our work directly contributes toward the goal of ensuring that our students graduate ready for the world – ready to thrive in college, career and life.

LAUSD is the second largest school district in the nation with an enrollment of nearly 575,000 students. We serve an area totaling 710 square miles, with over 1,190 schools and educational centers, and we employ over 74,000 individuals, making us one of the largest employers in our city.

A plumber performs skilled plumbing work in the installation, maintenance, repair, and replacement of District plumbing equipment, devices and fixtures.

The core duties below will require that a job incumbent:

• Installs, replaces, maintains, and repairs plumbing systems, equipment, appliances, controls, and fixtures including water, gas, and sewer installations.
• Works from sketches, drawings, and blueprints to install, maintain, and repair equipment, devices, and fixtures such as vacuum breakers, backflow devices, gas appliance safety controls, gas piping to steam tables, plumbing fixtures, drains, sinks, sumps, circulatory pumps, water heaters, and showers.
• Installs, maintains, and repairs gas piping systems for space heating.
• Installs, maintains, and repairs automatic, semi-automatic, and manually-operated lawn-sprinkler systems.
• Installs, maintains, and repairs air and gas welding systems.
• Surveys gas safety devices and other plumbing equipment that may need repair or replacement.
• Installs, maintains, and repairs automatic fire-sprinkler systems.
• Prepares reports pertaining to the testing and maintenance of backflow devices, fire-sprinkler systems, and other plumbing equipment, devices, and fixtures.
• Prepares job sketches and material and cost estimates.

Education: Graduation from high school or evidence of equivalent educational proficiency.

Experience: Successful completion of a recognized plumbing apprenticeship program or five years of experience in plumbing construction, installation, alteration, or repair work, of which one year must have been at the journey-level.

Special:

• A valid driver’s license to legally operate a motor vehicle in the State of California and use of a motor vehicle.
• A Los Angeles City Journeyman Plumber License

OR

• A Los Angeles County Certificate of Registration as a Journeyman Plumber.

Special

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to stand, walk, bend, crawl, climb, reach overhead, crouch, kneel, balance, push, pull, and safely lift and carry items weighing up to 100 pounds.
• Agility to work in confined spaces of buildings, climb high ladders, and work from scaffolds.
• Normal sense of smell to detect natural gas, stagnant water odors, sewer/septic gas odors, and odors associated with methane gas.

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