MAINTENANCE - PLUMBER JOB DESCRIPTION GENERAL STATEMENT OF JOB Perform task of maintaining, inspecting and repairing domestic water distribution systems, fixtures, sewer systems, gas systems, fire extinguishing systems, mechanical equipment and other systems.
SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Maintains a safe and secure environment for students, staff, visitors, and co-workers following established procedures and safety regulations.
Gathers pertinent data, identifies and evaluates options, and chooses a course of action. Reads blueprints, work diagrams and technical documents to determine course action required.
Attends in-service education classes and maintains up-to-date knowledge of code changes. Uses various drills, saws and other hand tools in the performance of job duties.
Practices accepted procedures in the care and use of tools and equipment. Maintains tools and equipment.
Uses backhoe, front-end loader, and other mechanical equipment.
Keeps records of repairs on equipment. Keeps superiors informed in all areas of systems maintenance.
ADDITIONAL JOB FUNCTIONS - May lead and give directions to other workers performing same duties. Completes any other assignment given by supervisor.
WORKER FUNCTIONS
Data:
Compiling: Gathering, collating, or classifying information about data, people, orthings.
Reporting and/or carrying out a prescribed action in relation to the information is frequently involved.
People: Taking Instructions-Helping: Attending to the work assignment instructions or orders of supervisor. (No immediate response required unless clarification of instructions or orders is needed. Helping applies to "non-learning" helpers.)
Things:
Precision Work: Using body members and/or tools or work aids to work, move, guide, or place objects or materials in situations where ultimate responsibility for the attainment of standards occurs and selection of appropriate tools, objects, or materials, and the adjustment of the tool to the task require exercise of considerable judgement.
MINIMUM TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
High school graduate or equivalent. Graduation from an accredited trade school in a related field is desirable and may substitute for up to two years of experience. Two years of plumbing and mechanical experience.
Valid driver's license is required.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form; to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in or from standardized situations.
Ability to compute ratio and proportion, and percentage; to calculate surfaces, volume, weights, and measures.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATONS OR STANDARDS REQUIRED TO PERFORM ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Physical Requirements:
Medium Work: Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for light work.
Data Conception: Compiling: Gathering, collating, or classifying information about data, people, or things. Reporting and/or carrying out a prescribed action in relation to the information is frequently involved.
Interpersonal Communication: Taking Instructions-Helping: Attending to the work assignment instructions or orders of supervisor. (No immediate response required unless clarification of instructions or orders is needed. Helping applies to "non-learning" helpers".)
Language Ability:
Read: Ability to read a variety of manuals, to read safety rules, instructions in the use and maintenance of shop tools and equipment, and methods and procedures in mechanical drawing and layout work.
Write: Ability to write reports with proper format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar, using all parts of speech.
Speak: Ability to speak with poise, voice control, and confidence, using correct English and well-modulated voice.
Intelligence: Ability to learn and understand relatively complex principles and techniques; to make independent judgements in absence of supervisor; to acquire knowledge of topics related to primary occupation.
Verbal Aptitude: Ability to record and deliver information; to explain simple procedures to others; to follow verbal and written work orders.
Numerical Aptitude: Ability to interpret setting requirements; adjust work schedules or staffing to met production requirements using knowledge of capacities of machines or equipment.
Form Perception/Clerical and Spatial Aptitude:
Ability to perceive detail in blueprints and check for accuracy; examine alignment and spacing of machinery.
Ability to perceive identification numbers marked on material; to read and understand numbers and volumes; to transcribe numbers.
Ability to visualize physical structures; to visualize how to divide complex-shaped patterns into sections.
Motor Coordination: Ability to coordinate eyes and hands in using tools to position, adjust, and tighten parts; to operate motor vehicle such as manual shift automobiles and trucks.
Manual and Finger Dexterity and Eye/Hand/Foot coordination:
Ability to use one hand for twisting and turning motion while coordinating other hand with different activities.
Ability to manipulate hand tools such as knives, as in cuttings; to wrap loose items. Ability to coordinate hand and foot with vision to physically position material prior to an operation.
Color Discrimination: Ability to match and sort items based on color; to distinguish between different colors.
Interpersonal Temperament:
Attaining Precise Set Limits, Tolerances, and Standards: Involves adhering to and achieving exact levels of performance, using precision measuring instruments, tools, and machines to attain precise dimensions; preparing exact verbal and numerical records; and complying with precise instruments and specifications for materials, methods, procedures, and techniques to attain specified standards.
Making Judgements and Decisions: Involves solving problems, making evaluations, or reaching conclusions based on subjective or objective criteria, such as the five senses, knowledge, past experiences, or quantifiable or factual data.
Performing a Variety of Duties: Involves frequent changes of tasks involving different aptitude, technologies, procedures, working conditions, physical demands, or degrees of attentiveness without loss of efficiency or composure.
Types of Physical Demands:
Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like, using feet and legs or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. Described in terms of height, steepness, duration, and type of structure climbed.
Frequently- Activity exists up to 1/3 to 2/3 of the time.
Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist, requiring full use of the lower extremities and back muscles. Described in terms of duration.
Frequently - Activity exists up to 1/3 to 2/3 of the time.
Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees. Described in terms of duration.
Frequently - Activity exists up to 1/3 to 2/3 of the time.
Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending legs and spine. Described in terms of duration.
Frequently - Activity exists up to 1/3 to 2/3 of the time.
Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet. Described in terms of duration.
Frequently - Activity exists up to 1/3 to 2/3 of the time.
Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction. Frequently - Activity exists up to 1/3 to 2/3 of the time.
Handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, turning, or otherwise working with hand or hands. Fingers are involved only to the extent that they are an extension of the hand, such as to turn a switch or shift automobile gears.
Frequently - Activity exists up to 1/3 to 2/3 of the time.
Fingering: Picking, pinching, or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling.
Frequently - Activity exists up to 1/3 to 2/3 of the time.
Near Acuity: Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less. Frequently - Activity exists up to 1/3 to 2/3 of the time.
Depth Perception: Three-dimensional vision. Ability to judge distances and spatial relationships so as to see objects where as they actually are.
Frequently-Activity exists up to 1/3 to 2/3 of the time.
Accommodations: Adjustment of lens to eye to bring an object into sharp focus. This factor is important when doing near point work at varying distances from eye.
Frequently-Activity exists up to 1/3 to 2/3 of the time.
Color Vision: Ability to identify and distinguish colors. Frequently-Activity exists up to 1/3 to 2/3 of the time.
ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTABILITY
Noise: The noise intensity level to which the worker is exposed in the job environment. Level - Loud.
Proximity to Moving, Mechanical Parts: Exposure to possible bodily injury from moving mechanical parts of equipment, tools, or machinery. Occasionally - Condition exists up to 1/3 of the time.
Exposure to Electrical Shock: Exposure to possible bodily injury from electrical shock. Occasionally - Condition exists up to 1/3 of the time.