About This Role
This plumbing role involves assembling, installing, and maintaining various piping systems and fixtures, ensuring compliance with safety and building codes. It suits a detail-oriented individual with a strong aptitude for math and a commitment to quality work.
Responsibilities
- Assemble pipe sections, tubing, and fittings, using couplings, clamps, screws, bolts, cement, plastic solvents, caulking, soldering, brazing, propressing, or welding equipment
- Fill pipes or plumbing fixtures with water or air and observe pressure gauges to detect and locate leaks
- Review blueprints, building codes, and specifications to determine work details and procedures
- Locate and mark the position of pipe installations, connections, passage holes, and fixtures in structures, using measuring instruments such as rulers, lasers, and levels
- 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, water heaters, and fixtures such as sinks and toilets, using hand and power tools
- Cut openings in structures to accommodate pipes and pipe fittings, using hand and power tools
- Install underground storm, sanitary, and water piping systems and extend piping to connect fixtures and plumbing to these systems
- Install oxygen and medical gas if licensed to do so
- Install plumbing inside, outside, on the floor level, below grade, and in the ceiling
- Follow health and safety standards and comply with building codes
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements
- 5 years of experience
- Aptitude for math
- Keen attention to detail
- Takes pride in work
- Must always put safety first
- Must have reliable transportation and be willing to go to job sites in the areas we work
- Must own all hand tools needed to perform as a plumber as described in WRN’s tool list
- Must be a team player
- Must be able to work overtime as required
Important Details
- Safety responsibilities: Each employee has a responsibility for their own safety, the safety of their co-workers, and the community in which they are operating; check in with building personnel before performing work; observe all safety, health, and loss prevention rules, practices, and procedures, as well as specific instructions related to the safe and efficient performance of work; wear all Personal Protective Equipment required for the safe performance of the job; be safety conscious and keenly aware, both mentally and physically, of the potential hazards of your environment
