Plumber, Plumbing Shop

Why UT Southwestern?
With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the #1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth for the sixth consecutive year, we invite you to continue your healthcare career with us at UT Southwestern. You will discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and consistent opportunities for learning and advancement into leadership roles.
All full-time employees will have a robust benefits package including employer paid medical insurance. Children and family medical insurance plans are available at a cost to the employee.
To learn more about the benefits UT Southwestern offers visit https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/employees/hr-resources/ .
Job Summary
The Plumber position is responsible for installing, repairing, and maintaining piping systems and plumbing fixtures such as sinks, toilets, showers, and specialty lab equipment. Maintains potable water, storm sewer, sanitary sewer, grease traps, and medical gas systems. Responds to all water leaks and assists in isolating water lines and making repairs quickly to reduce infrastructure damage and hospital room down time. Repairs and tests eye washes and safety showers, hot water units, gas heaters, and checks for the safe operation of all. Clears clogged plumbing lines. Assists in estimating and maintains required time and material records for each job. This position also responds to plumbing issues at other sites throughout campus as needed when the assigned plumber to that facility is not available.
Experience and Education
High school diploma or equivalent and three (3) years journeyman level experience as plumber in a commercial, institution or healthcare setting.
Must have current Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners journeyman’s licensure as a Plumber in appropriate level and field of work.
Job Duties
Installs, repairs, and maintains piping systems and plumbing fixtures, inspecting connections and other parts for leaks; replaces defective pipe and solders and/or caulks leaks and broken pipes.
Cuts, bends, and threads pipe, fitting valves and couplings to pipe sections by screwing, bolting, or soldering and wipes lead joints.
Installs pipe assemblies and plumbing fixtures such as sinks, toilets, showers, emergency eyewashes, special laboratory equipment, water heaters, etc., roughing-in when needed.
Clears clogged lines.
Repairs autoclaves and other sterilizing equipment, hot water units, and gas heaters and checks for safe operation.
Assists in estimating and maintains required time and material records for each job.
Utilizes PPE and protects job sites from sewer line discharge/spillage.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Work requires the ability to use acetylene torches, pipe benders, cutters, threaders, wrenches, blueprints, and other tools common to plumbing trade.
Work requires the ability to plan and perform unusual and difficult assignments and needs to make decisions involving use of considerable ingenuity, initiative, and/or judgment.
Work requires alertness and close attention to detail to avoid injury to self and others.
Work requires proficiency in all phases of work performed.
Work requires walking, bending, climbing, lifting up to 50 lbs., pulling/pushing equipment up to 50 lbs.
Must be familiar with acid waste and purified water piping systems and components.
The following is the acronym, "PACT", and is fundamental to all non-clinical positions at UT Southwestern Medical Center:
P-Problem Solving: Employees take ownership in solving problems effectively, efficiently, and to the satisfaction of customers, or managers. They show initiative in addressing areas of concern before they become problems.
A-Ability, Attitude and Accountability: Employees exhibit the ability to perform their job and conduct themselves in a professional and positive manner reflecting a professional environment readily assuming obligations in a dependable and reliable manner.
C-Communication, Contribution, and Collaboration: Who are our customers? Anyone who requests our help, needs our work product, or receives our services. Employees focus on customer service with creative solutions while improving the customer experience through clear, courteous, and timely delivery and communication. Sharing ideas with others helps expand our contribution to department goals.
T-Teamwork: Employees work to contribute to the department’s success by supporting co-workers, promoting excellence in work product and customer service, and in maintaining a satisfying, caring environment for each other.
Working Conditions
Working conditions are considered acceptable but occasionally involve exposure to one or more disagreeable elements such as dust, dirt, and need to work frequently in confined spaces.
Any qualifications to be considered as equivalents in lieu of stated minimum require prior approval of Vice President for Human Resources Administration or his/her designee.
This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code §51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.
UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status. To learn more, please visit: why-work-here/diversity-inclusion .