Structure Maintainer C (Ironworker) Provisional Job New York New York USA,Trades / Skilled Labor

Description

Job Description

Job Title:

Structure Maintainer – Group C (Iron Work)

Location:

Various

Full/Part Time:
Full-Time

Regular/Temporary:
Regular

Job Information

Last Date of Filing:
Until Filled
Authority: TA
Department:
Subway
Division/Unit:
Maintenance of Way/Infrastructure
Reports to:

Supervision
Work Location:

Various
Hours of Work:
Various

* If you are hired into this position, you must pass the next Civil Service Exam and be hired from the resulting list for this title to obtain permanent civil service status

Compensation

Salary Range:
The current minimum salary for Structure Maintainer
- Group C is $3.590 per hour for a 40-hour work week with an increase to $42.24 in the sixth year of service. These rates are subject to change.

night and weekend salary differentials
paid holidays
vacation
sick leave
a comprehensive medical plan
a pension plan

Responsibilities

Structure Maintainers
- Group C, under supervision, perform ironwork on subway, surface and elevated structures, including stations, enclosures and related buildings; perform other structural work as necessary including incidental painting; perform shoring, welding, burning, rigging, high‑strength bolting and rivet removal on steel columns, girders, stairways, gratings and station controls; perform electric welding, brazing, acetylene cutting, and sheet metal work on bodies of multiple‑unit railcars, including repair and alteration of framing, sheeting and other railcar body components;

load, unload and drive trucks and vans; and perform related work.

Some of the physical activities performed by Structure Maintainers
- Group C and environmental conditions they experience are: working on or near tracks where live high‑voltage equipment is present, climbing and descending ladders, working on elevated structures at heights of up to 160 feet and in confined spaces, working on suspended scaffolding, reaching into dark spaces and making tactile inspections, walking along trackways and catwalks in dimly lit areas, hearing and responding to warning whistles and sounds of oncoming trains, crawling under subway cars in maintenance pits, working outdoors in all weather conditions, and operating heavy machinery.

Special

Working Conditions

Structure Maintainers
- Group C may be required to work various shifts including nights, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.

Education and Experience Requirements

You must meet one of the following requirements below:

1. Completion of a four‑year, full‑time apprenticeship in the ironwork trade conducted or sponsored by a recognized trade union or recognized industry association or group; or

2. Five years of satisfactory full‑time experience as a journey‑level ironworker (i.e. fully trained, proficient, knowledgeable, experienced, and competent in performing ironwork); or

3. Three years of full‑time journey‑level (i.e. fully‑trained, knowledgeable, experienced, proficient and competent) experience in the work described under “2” above, plus completion of one of the following listed below before obtaining your journey‑level experience.

a. Two years of satisfactory full‑time experience as a helper or trainee performing or assisting in the work described above; or
b. Graduation from a vocational high school with a major course of study in ironwork or a closely related field; or
c. Graduation from a trade school or technical school with a major course of study in ironwork, or a closely related field, totaling 600 hours; or
d. An associate degree or higher in ironwork or a closely related field.

If you have qualifying part‑time experience, it will be credited on a prorated basis.

Experience which involves only incidental or occasional ironwork, such as mixed construction work, masonry, carpentry, auto body repair work, sheet metal work, or…