Locksmith

About This Role

This role involves installing, maintaining, and repairing various locks and locking devices across the city's public health care system. A locksmith with experience in diverse locking mechanisms and key systems will find this role suitable.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and take responsibility for the work of assigned personnel
• Remove, replace, install, maintain, provide emergency lock services, repair, and adjust all types of locks, locking devices, and related hardware, including panel locks, vertical rod locking devices, cell block and prison cell locks, locker and cabinet locks, and safe and other combination locks
• Install locks and locking devices on wood and metal doors, kalamein doors, classroom doors, steel file cabinets and lockers, and on cell doors, gates, corridors, and enclosures in prisons and detention areas
• Perform regular maintenance and repairs to lock stiles in wood, metal, and kalamein doors, and make necessary repairs to jambs and hanging stiles to reinforce hinges for proper operation of doors and locks
• Open, repair, and drill safes and change combinations
• Rekey locks and create master key systems
• Make keys with or without duplicates and key change numbers
• Use a key cutting machine to create duplicates
• Pick locks open and change keys, if required
• Set up and change key combinations, change cylinders, and make keys to fit grand master, group master, and floor master combinations
• Instruct designated personnel in the operation of the key control system
• Keep inventory records and prepare materials requisitions
• Keep job and other records

Requirements

• Five years of full-time experience as a Locksmith; or
• Three years of such experience and education at a locksmith, vocational, technical, or trade school approved by a State

Important Details

• License: Valid New York City Locksmith License, maintained for the duration of employment
• Other conditions: For certain positions, a Motor Vehicle Driver's License valid in the State of New York will be required and must be maintained for the duration of employment

About the Company

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the United States, providing essential outpatient, inpatient, and home-based services to over one million New Yorkers annually across the city

's five boroughs. The system comprises ambulatory centers, acute care centers, post-acute care/long-term care, rehabilitation programs, Home Care, and Correctional Health Services.