Journeyman, Plumber

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a diverse population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement. We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Reflects the diversity of our community
  
  
• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching
  
  
• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities
  
  
• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for under-represented populations
  
  
• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others
  
  
• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC
  
  

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ACC is proud to serve a diverse student body as an open-access and low-cost institution. Dedicated faculty members are excellent professors who help students achieve their educational goals and are sensitive to our students' diverse cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. In 2017 our faculty adopted a Statement of ACC Faculty Values. This Statement affirms that ACC's faculty members value collaboration, service, agency, scholarship, inclusion, and teaching, all of which attest to our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our mission.

Job Posting Title:

Journeyman, Plumber

Job Description Summary:

Performs work in maintaining, repairing and installing plumbing systems that transport water steam, natural and laboratory gases, sewer, storm and drain water, chilled water, vacuum systems and related equipment and distribution systems district-wide.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks
Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Performs troubleshooting and maintenance procedures needed to keep all plumbing equipment operating in a safe and efficient manner.
• Inspects, maintains, repairs, modifies, installs, and replaces building, laboratory, and other miscellaneous plumbing systems.
• Locates and repairs leaks in common and specialty piping systems conveying various fluids and gases, including but not limited to domestic water, reclaimed water, wastewater, steam, laboratory gases, natural gas, and refrigerants.
• Performs preventive maintenance on building, laboratory and specialty plumbing systems and system components including pumps and controls. Utilizes instruments such as ultrasonic, temperature sensing, pressure and flow gauges.
• Includes working on electronic actuated valves, as well as replacing back-flow prevention assemblies, and safety eye washes and showers. Clears drain blockages. Removes and replaces lavatory fixtures.
• Provides timely and courteous customer service
• Inspects completed work for conformance with specifications, requirements, and compliance with applicable building and safety codes and regulations.
• Prepares and completes appropriate documents, work orders, reports to include but not limited to documenting length of time spent on each job, materials used, and describing work completed. Develops plumbing activity and repair standard operating procedures.
• Conducts, routine, annual and biannual inspections and testing.
• Complies with all applicable health and safety regulations, policies, and established work practices.

Knowledge
Must possess required knowledge and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Working knowledge of plumbing systems.
• Understanding of plumbing codes, working knowledge of building codes such as Fire Codes, American with Disabilities Act, etc. or ability to learn how they apply to facilities.

Skills
Must possess required skills and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.
• Ability to effectively prioritize in a multi-demand and constantly changing environment using organization and flexibility skills; able to meet multiple and sometimes conflicting deadlines without sacrificing accuracy, timeliness or professionalism.
• Maintaining an established work schedule, with occasional nights and weekends.
• Ability to use hand and power tools and equipment to accomplish plumbing tasks involved in maintenance, repair, dismantling, construction, refresh, and remodeling of the building structures.
• Ability to learn a variety of processes, procedures, methods, various standard materials, and supplies applicable to constructing, remodeling, maintaining, and repairing office buildings and other structures.
• Ability to apply proper methods, techniques, and procedures in accomplishing a wide variety of repair, renovation and construction projects.
• Effectively communicating verbal and written instructions.
• Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
• Ability to exercise poise, tact, diplomacy and an ability to establish and maintain positive, working/professional relationships with internal/external customers.

Technology Skills

• Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.
• Must possess appropriate levels of proficiency with utilized software and systems and be able to learn new software/systems such as a Computerized Maintenance Management System to open/close assigned work orders.

Required Work Experience

• Two years of related work experience.
• Commercial College or University with multiple buildings

Required Education

• High school diploma or educational equivalent.

Special Requirements
Licenses/Certifications; Other
BPAT License

• Valid Class C Texas Driver's License in good standing.

Physical Requirements

• May need to lift heavy objects of up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to drive motor vehicles and other motorize equipment.
• May be exposed to a variety of temperatures, noise, moving mechanical parts, or chemicals.
• Work is performed in a variety of settings.
• Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling, and at times subject to stooping, crawling, and climbing.
• May require wearing a respirator (air purifying - N95 or half face mask).
• May require wearing hearing protection and participation in a Hearing Conservation Program.

Safety

• Work safely and follow safety rules. Report unsafe working conditions and behavior. Take reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices.

Salary Range

$54,044 - $67,555

Number of Openings:

1

Job Posting Close Date:

February 9, 2023 Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.

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