Lead Plumber

Lead Plumber

Location:

Christ Medical Center;
Oak Lawn, IL.

Full Time; 1st shift

It’s More Than a Job, It’s a Calling!

• Working collaboratively with the manager, establishes goals and quality standards for the plumbing team. Routinely inspects, installs, repairs and replaces pipes, fittings, valves, and pumps to maintain hospital water and drainage systems.
• Collaborates with the department manager on hiring, progressive discipline, rewards, and recognition of associates.
• Establishes work schedules for their team to ensure proper coverage. Provides guidance and oversight on the use of contractors to supplement the work of associates assigned to the department.
• Oversees administrative actions required of their assigned team.
• Leads the onboarding process for orientation and training of plumbers to increase knowledge, skills, and proficiency.
• Supervises the work of other maintenance personnel assigned to plumbing projects.
• Prepares and submits to the Construction Department proper documentation of modifications to existing systems.
• Inspects and ensures all work is done to the highest quality standards, providing regular performance feedback to associates. Provides the manager with draft annual performance appraisals.
• Provides timely and accurate recommendations for the annual operating budget and 5‑year infrastructure capital plan. Manages the expenditures to meet the department budget goals.
• Prioritizes and schedules associates to perform corrective, preventative, and predictive maintenance of plumbing systems.
• Supervises plumbing system repairs and/or installations or replacements as assigned or as required by the situation in a timely and work‑manlike fashion.
• Performs major plumbing maintenance and repairs, replacing piping, faucets, sinks, commodes, hot water heaters, ejector pumps, sump pumps, etc.
• Operates drain‑cleaning equipment to clear blocked drains or sewer lines and has knowledge of shut‑off valve operation and locations for domestic water systems, heating water systems, water mains, etc.
• Completes general hospital maintenance work as assigned.
• Follows proper safety and infection prevention procedures.
• Establishes, monitors and improves the preventive maintenance and inspection program and procedures for all building plumbing systems and equipment per manufacturer recommendation and regulatory requirements.
• Ensures plumbing associates and vendors complete assigned PMs by the established deadline.
• Ensures all new areas and assigned equipment in inventory and preventive/predictive tasks and frequencies are consistent with manufacturer recommendations and regulatory standards.
• Ensures all plumbing associates and vendors properly document all actions through log books or the CMMS.
• Maintains documentation required by regulatory standards in a format easily retrieved and audited.
• Takes appropriate action on problems reported and not resolved during PM inspections.
• Inspects and ensures work completed by plumbers and vendors is done to the highest quality standards.
• Establishes, monitors and improves the standard operating policy and procedures of plumbing systems.
• Reads blueprints and troubleshoots problems. Advises parts coordinator of proper inventory levels to be maintained on plumbing materials.
• Ensures plumbing team responds to building occupant requests in a timely and professional manner. Keeps requesters appraised of the status of corrective action and service requests.
• Organizes and maintains accurate records and reports of equipment startups, failures, problems and completed work in the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
• Establishes equipment rounds and standing instructions to ensure all equipment is operating properly.
• Reviews all findings and actions taken in the CMMS and takes appropriate action to follow up.
• Establishes, trains, monitors and supervises emergency procedures for associates with leaks, floods, water outages, restricted drain lines, fires, power outages, equipment failures, and other disruptions of utilities and executes those procedures in a timely, safe, and correct manner.

• High School Diploma or GED
• Completion of trade…