Plumber II

Responsibilities

• Correctly and efficiently completes installation, modification and repairs of various plumbing systems and equipment, e.g., replaces defective pipes, fittings, fixtures, and valves.
• Accurately tests completed work for proper drainage, flow and venting.
• Properly measures, fabricates and installs odd size adjoining parts and/or improvises installations when blueprints and sketches do not provide sufficient Information.
• Properly uses, maintains, and accounts for all types of hand and/or power tools as required, to accomplish assigned duties.
• Skill in the use of any of the accepted trade methods and techniques, such as wiping and pouring lead joints, seating equipment, and installing any combinations of couplings, unions, and joint need for proper operation of the systems.
• Assemble pipe sections, tubing, and fitting using coupling, clamps, screws, bolts, cement, plastic solvent, caulking, or soldering, brazing, and welding equipment.
• Fill pipes or plumbing fixtures with water or air and observe pressure gauges to detect and locate leaks.
• Measure, cut, thread, and bend pipe to required angles, using hand and power tools or machines such as pipe cutters, pipe-threading machines, and pipe-bending machines.
• Install pipe assemblies, fittings, valves and water heaters and fixtures such as sinks and toilets, using hand and power tools.
• Cut openings in structures to accommodate pipes and pipe fitting equipment to join plumbing to fixtures.
• Be able to perform on call duties after normal duty hours and on weekends and holidays.

Requirements

• Journeyman Plumbing License or higher with work in Civil Engineering required.
• Five (5) years of plumbing experience required.
• Must have knowledge of equipment assembly, installation, operation, and repair to include routing, replacement, slant, slope, and fall of system.
• Possess basic understanding of Fire Suppression Systems.
• Must be a US or Permanent Citizen due to contract requirements.