Duke Regional Hospital has served Durham, Orange, Person, Granville and Alamance counties and the surrounding communities for nearly 40 years. With more than 1,900 employees, its focus is on providing outstanding medical care with compassionate, personalized service in a comfortable community hospital setting. Duke Regional Hospital has 369 inpatient beds and offers a comprehensive range of medical, surgical and diagnostic services, including orthopedics, weight-loss surgery, women's services, and heart and vascular services, and also offers care at the Duke Rehabilitation Institute and Davis Ambulatory Surgical Center. In fiscal year 2018, Duke Regional Hospital admitted 16,299 patients and had 165,953 outpatient visits in fiscal year 2017.
U.S. News & World Report ranked Duke Regional Hospital as #10 in North Carolina and #4 in the Raleigh-Durham area for 2018-19.
General Description of the Job Class
Perform journeyman level installation, repair, assembly and maintenance of water, sewage, drainage, air, gas and vacuum systems and related equipment and facilities in accordance with pertinent state and local codes; provide technical guidance and direction to lower level personnel.
Duties and Responsibilities of this Level
Install, connect and test plumbing fixtures such as urinals, water closets, wash basins, sinks and drinking fountains, compressed air fixtures, and such gas fired equipment as heat furnaces, boilers, and processing tanks. Monitor and troubleshoot major plumbing breakdowns by diagnosing trouble, and repairing, replacing or taking other corrective action of such items as clogged main sewer lines, main gas line breakdown, steam equipment and devices and fire sprinkling systems.
Install and maintain sterilizers, stills, washers, glasswashers, institutional kitchen equipment, operating room tables, swimming pool facilities, mixing valves, water softeners, grease pits and special equipment.
Determine routing of pipe and location of such plumbing fixtures, accessories and equipment as inlets, vent pipes, valves, meters gauges, hangers, brackets and water, sewer, gas and air connections by following and adhering to trade practice specifications, blueprints, sketches and codes.
Indicate lines and points on walls, floors, ceiling and open areas or set stakes to locate pipe routes, inlets, outlets, connections, fixtures and equipment; prepare working sketch as required.
Check, service, clean and connect oxygen, nitrous oxide and suction regulators.
Follow a predetermined schedule of preventive maintenance.
Provide technical guidance and direction to lower level personnel. Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.
Required Qualifications at this Level
Education
Work requires an educational background normally equivalent to high school with course work in skilled crafts or trades training.
Experience
Work requires 4 years of experience in the installation and repair of plumbing systems and fixtures.
OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE
Degrees, Licensure, and/or Certification
Work requires city Plumber's license.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Work with Blueprints
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