Utilities Distribution Technician

About the Department

The NC State University Facilities Division is home to nearly 900 professionals who plan, build, and maintain the spaces that foster an environment where innovation, learning, and community thrive. Through this work, we help create spaces that empower students, faculty, and staff to reach their full potential. Operating year-round, we manage more than 16.7 million gross square feet of built space and oversee 4,733 acres of campus infrastructure through a series of core departments, each composed of multiple specialized units:

• Design & Construction
• Business Operations
• Campus Operations and Maintenance
• Campus Planning and Strategic Investment

Whether responding to a maintenance request, shaping future facilities or creating spaces that inspire discovery, our team is grounded in excellence, service and stewardship.

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Join NC State University’s Utilities and Engineering team as a Utilities Distribution Technician and play a hands-on role in maintaining the essential infrastructure that keeps our campus operating safely and reliably. This position supports NC State’s Main, Centennial, and CBC campuses, performing skilled mechanical and piping work, diagnostics, maintenance, and repairs on critical utility systems, including steam tunnels, pump stations, heat exchangers, pressure-reducing valves (PRVs), and grease traps.

You’ll have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects, from routine maintenance and repairs to new construction, renovations, and welding projects, while helping ensure reliable utility services for research, academic, and animal hospital facilities. If you enjoy troubleshooting, hands‑on work, and solving mechanical challenges that make a meaningful impact, we invite you to apply and become part of the NC State Facilities team!

• Diagnose and repair equipment such as fans, pumps, receivers, steam lines, condensate lines, and pressure-reducing stations.
• Inspect, maintain, and repair steam and hot water systems, including components like traps, strainers, expansion joints, and piping.
• Utilize welding technologies for torch work, including welding, brazing, soldering, and cutting, and fabricate parts from blueprints, sketches, and verbal instructions.
• Install, operate, maintain, and rebuild mechanical pumps, PRVs, and associated piping and equipment.
• Cut, thread, solder, and assemble piping; connect valves and test gas, water, sanitary, and storm lines; eliminate leaks and replace faulty fittings.
• Test and certify backflow prev enters, conduct fire hydrant flow tests, and perform inspections of wastewater collection systems, including grease traps and SSOs.
• Conduct annual inspections of wastewater distribution systems and report findings to the Environmental Engineer and shop supervisor.
• Align motors and pumps, set frames, and install related equipment such as…