CERTIFIED PLUMBER

Position Summary

General Maintenance Worker/Plumber performs highly skilled maintenance, installation, repair and troubleshooting work with plumbing systems. Plumbing work may be performed in a number of areas including proper operation, minor and major repairs of buildings, utilities and other improvements.

*This list of duties and responsibilities is illustrative only of the tasks performed by this position and is not all-inclusive.*

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Install, modify and repair new and existing high-pressure piping systems and equipment such hydraulic systems, flash and expansion tanks, condensate, vacuum and circulating pumps radiators.
• Plan and lay out the routing, placement, pitch, elevation, pressure reduction expansion and operation of various piping systems and equipment form building plans, blueprints, and sketches.
• Lay out, install, modify and repair various new and existing piping systems and equipment by installing various kinds of piping, risers and flexible branches at the proper level and incline; determine the placement and elevation and install vacuum and condensate pumps, and radiators, and replace heat exchangers, flash and expansion tanks, and automatic manual control valves.
• Figure pipe, joint and valve sizes needed to support pressure systems, align pipes, valve fitting, and joints for accurate match and installs proper braces and supports to control movement and vibration and allow for expansion and contraction.
• Use tools and equipment such as sliding squares, measuring tapes, dividers, chalk lines, plumb bobs, templates, star drills, grinders, flanges, hand and power pipe threaders and cutters, and pipe wrenches.
• Install, maintain, and repair water and sewer lines, fixtures, and valves.
• Perform preventive maintenance and repair on gas boilers for Install, maintain, and repair gas and heating water lines, natural gas, propane and electrical water heaters for hospital buildings and staff res...