PLUMBER

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Position Overview

The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery is seeking to hire a Plumber for the Elgin Mental Health Center located in Elgin, Illinois to receive day-to-day guidance and assignments from the Stationary Engineer Chief. Performs journey level work in installation, maintenance and repair of sanitary fixtures, sewage systems, performs remodeling, renovation, and maintenance. Makes regular inspections of structural facilities or equipment, reads blueprints for specification of particular work assignments for ongoing projects at the Elgin Mental Health Center. Maintains a supply of tools, materials, and equipment necessary for the job and reports repairs and replaces various types of equipment as necessary for the safe operation of the Elgin Mental Health Center. Instructs and guides semi-skilled and unskilled workers, and contractual vendors. Exercises, follows, and pays close attention to appropriate safety precautions and procedures in the use and handling of tools and equipment at work sites and residential and programming/training areas.  Travels from the Elgin Mental Health Center to other facilities on an as needed basis, to perform general plumbing work.

Essential Functions

• Receives day-to-day guidance and assignments from the Stationary Engineer Chief at the Elgin Mental Health Center.
• Makes regular inspections of structural facilities or equipment, reads blueprints for specification of particular work assignments for ongoing projects at the Elgin Mental Health Center.
• Maintains and prepares records and reports relative to the plumbing system at the Elgin Mental Health Center and other facilities and centers when necessary or requested.
• Maintains a supply of tools, materials, and equipment necessary for the job and reports repairs and replaces various types of equipment as necessary for the safe operation of the Elgin Mental Health Center.
• Instructs and guides semi-skilled and unskilled workers, and contractual vendors in performing or assisting with plumbing and similar tasks such as digging trenches and backfilling operations for broken water mains.
• Exercises, follows, and pays close attention to appropriate safety precautions and procedures in the use and handling of tools and equipment at work sites and residential and programming/training areas.
• Travels from the Elgin Mental Health Center to other facilities on an as needed basis, to perform general plumbing work.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned that are within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to the completion of four years of high school.
• Requires possession of a current valid plumber's license issued by the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Conditions of Employment

• Requires ability to lift and carry heavy items and material such as ladders bundles of copper pipes, cast iron fittings and tripods weighing up to 50 pounds independently. 
• Requires ability to access all locations of the facility including basements, crawl spaces, tunnels, attics and roofs.
• Requires a valid appropriate driver's license
• Requires ability to travel in the performance of job duties.
• Requires the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal computers.
• Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
• Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.

*All conditions of employment listed are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.

About the Agency

The Illinois Department of Human Services uplifts individuals and communities across Illinois.  Our mission is to respond to the needs of all people in Illinois so they can lead healthy, safe, and enriched lives.  Our vision is the future we are shaping with dignity and the well-being for everyone in Illinois.  Our values are the principles that guide us as we work to remove systemic barriers and create lasting opportunities with Compassion, Accessibility, Responsibility, and Equity.