Plumber

This position is located in the D.C. Department of Corrections (DOC), Facilities Maintenance Division. The mission of DOC is to ensure public safety for citizens of the District of Columbia by providing an orderly, safe, secure, and humane environment for the confinement of pretrial detainees and sentenced inmates, while providing meaningful opportunities for community reintegration.

The incumbent is responsible for the modification of utility, supply, and disposal systems, complex installation, repair, and maintenance of plumbing fixtures, hot water, cold water, and sewage. In addition, the incumbent is responsible for the completion of guiding the workforce and on-the-job training to inmate workers, as necessary, as well as ensuring security in the performance of the work assigned.

Duties and Responsibilities

Performs specialized work assignments related to the installation, repair, and maintenance of supply and disposal systems. Reviews and works from building plans, blueprints, work orders, drawing/sketches, layout work, and personally performs the repair and maintenance of steam lines and plumbing lines/fixtures throughout DOC. Plans and ensures the proper slant, slope, fall, or level of installation to provide for proper flow, drainage, and sanitary operating conditions and to prevent backflow, vacuum, or air lock conditions. Troubleshoots various plumbing systems and equipment, including backflow prevention devices such as reduced pressure principal devices, double check devices, atmospheric vacuum breakers and other cross connection devices. Performs the installation and maintenance on return pipes and hot and cold-water lines; the laying and connecting of water and sewage lines; the installation of new and repaired plumbing and heating equipment, e.g., pressure reducing valves, make-up water and blow-down tanks, toilets and wash bowls, scullery sinks, traps, valves, pumps and a variety of oil and gas appliances.

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