Plumber (Journeyman)
Requisition ID: 373143
Position Number: 20052977
Posting End Date: January 8, 2025
City: Winnipeg
Employer: Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Site: Grace Hospital
Department / Unit: Facilities Management - GGH
Job Stream: Non-Clinical
Union: CUPE
Anticipated Start Date: 01/10/2025
FTE: 1.00
Anticipated Shift: Days
Work Arrangement: In Person
Daily Hours Worked: 7.75
Annual Base Hours: 2015
Salary: $40.697, $41.918
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Position Overview
- Maintains and repairs all of the Hospital's plumbing and related facilities, including medical gas, medical vacuum systems, and fire protection/suppression systems.
- May be required to do installations and/or renovations to the plumbing systems.
- Operates, maintains and repairs the heating (including steam) and air conditioning systems including humidifiers and dehumidifiers.
- Records data regarding assigned services and repairs in accordance with established procedures.
- Actively participates in the Department's Continuous Quality Improvement activities/programs (e.g. preventive maintenance, fire and safety programs).
- Performs all duties assigned in the event of an emergency.
- Performs other duties as required.
Experience
- Air conditioning and refrigeration experience is highly desirable.
- Previous experience in a health care facility is preferred.
Certification/Licensure/Registration
- Journeyman Plumber status.
- Current backflow prevention licensure.
- A gas licence is preferred.
Qualifications and Skills
- Maintains and repairs all of the Hospital's plumbing, heating and air conditioning systems are efficiently operated, maintained and repaired.
- Assigned duties are performed with minimal supervision.
- Assigned duties are performed in accordance with the preventive maintenance program.
- All fire and safety rules and regulations are observed in the performance of duties.
- Pertinent data regarding assigned service and repairs are accurately recorded.
- Effective communication skills and interpersonal relationships are maintained within the Department and with other Hospital personnel.
- Confidentiality is maintained in all matters pertaining to the Hospital, and patients and their families (PHIA/FIPPA).
This position requires a current satisfactory Criminal Records Check (including Vulnerable Sector Search), Child Abuse Registry Check and Adult Abuse Registry Check as conditions of employment. The successful candidate will be responsible for any service charges incurred. A security check is considered current if it was obtained no more than six (6) months prior to the start of employment.
Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions across the WRHA legal entity that combine to equal more than 1.0 EFT. The WRHA legal entity includes Churchill Health Centre, Deer Lodge Centre, Golden West Centennial Lodge, Grace Hospital, Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg, Pan Am Clinic, River Park Gardens, Victoria General Hospital, WRHA corporate programs, and WRHA community health services.
Interviewed candidates may be called upon to participate in a skills assessment.
Any application received after the closing time will not be included in the competition.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.