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Job Description
Performs activities related to installing, repairing, and maintaining plumbing system.
Responsibilities
- Attend various meetings including safety meetings, focus groups, quality team meetings, and Departmental meetings.
- Cleans work area; cleans and maintains tools and equipment.
- Estimates types and amounts of materials needed for job; orders materials.
- Installs complete plumbing systems into newly constructed buildings and in remodeling jobs.
- Monitors plumbing work done by outside contractors and journeyman or apprentice plumbers to ensure compliance with University standards.
- Performs installation and repair work on special systems including high pressure air, water filtration, and commercial washers/dryers.
- Reviews blueprints and inspects job site; consults with client; determines appropriate method of doing project. Pull permits as needed.
- Troubleshoots problems in plumbing systems; replaces or repairs fixtures, pumps, drains, and hot water heaters.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- High school diploma or GED
- Five (5) years of appropriate experience.
- Must possess and maintain a valid drivers license.
- Must have Shelby County Backflow Preventer Certification or obtain within six (6) months from date of hire.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
Working Conditions: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to handle, or feel; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk. The employee is occasionally required to stand; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
About Us
The University of Memphis is a leading, student-centered, urban public R1 research institution. Located in Memphis, Tennessee, on 1,160 acres. The University serves a population of nearly 20,000 students and 2,500 employees, including more than 1,000 full-time faculty members. The University offers bachelor’s degrees in more than 230 areas of study, master’s degrees in more than 50 subjects and doctoral degrees in 26 disciplines; supported an institutional record of more than $100 million in research awards for FY24; and has an operating budget of close to $500 million.



