Boiler/Welder Specialist
Are you looking for full-time year-round employment and want to enjoy 12 paid holidays each year? If so, the Utah Department of Corrections is looking for a Boiler/Welding Specialist to work in their new Salt Lake Utah Correctional Facility.
The Boiler/Welding Specialist will perform the following:
- Enforcing security regulations.
- Skilled in a vocation and able to use related tools and/or equipment proficiently.
- Inmates are helped to become team-oriented with the goal to enable them to succeed outside of the prison environment.
Successful candidates will possess:
- Experience operating and maintaining high-pressure steam boilers.
- Experience installing high and low-pressure steam traps.
- Experience operating and maintaining low-pressure and hydronic boilers.
- Experience maintaining shell and tube, plate, and frame heat exchange.
- Preference will be given to applicants who have knowledge of welding and fabricating.
- Experience operating and maintaining water towers.
This job is NOT public safety certified and does not require peace officer status or certification.
The Agency:
Our dedicated team of professionals ensures public safety by effectively managing offenders while maintaining close collaboration with partner agencies and the community. Our team is devoted to providing maximum opportunities for offenders to make lasting changes through accountability, treatment, education, and positive reinforcement within a safe environment.
For additional information about the Utah Department of Corrections please go to this link. http://www.corrections.utah.gov/
Example of Duties:
- Understand the principles and techniques used in the specific service or trade, adherence to industry and/or safety standards and maintenance of related equipment, tools and/or supplies.
- Works in a team effort to help the maintenance or service operations become successful.
- Uses and operates a variety of hand tools, electrical and mechanical.
- Troubleshoots and diagnoses problems, makes adjustments, repairs and/or performs preventative maintenance on equipment, or machinery, etc.
- Repairs, cleans, adjusts and/or performs preventive maintenance on equipment, tools, or machinery, etc.
- Operates and maintains high and low-pressure steam, electric and other types of boilers.
Typical Qualifications:
- principles, theories, and practices of safety and risk management.
- knowledge of welding and fabricating.
- follow written and/or oral instructions.
- applicable laws, rules, regulations and/or policies and procedures.
- maintain and/or repair tools and equipment.
- speak clearly, concisely and effectively; listen to, and understand, information and ideas as presented verbally.
- read, interpret and apply laws, rules, regulations, policies and/or procedures.
- recognize when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong (does not involve solving the problem).
- work with or contribute to a work group or team to complete assigned task(s).
- welding methods and techniques.
- maintain composure and respond appropriately in stressful, emergencies, volatile, or crises.
- equipment operation and maintenance.
Supplemental Information:
- Current UDC employees' hourly rate will be determined by the career ladder.
- Risks found in potentially dangerous or unusual environmental stress situations, e.g. working at great heights, working in extreme outdoor weather conditions, working in a Correctional Environment.
- The work requires considerable and strenuous physical exertion such as frequent climbing, lifting heavy objects over 50 pounds, crouching or crawling in restricted areas, and defending oneself and/or others against physical attack.
- This job is NOT public safety certified and does not require peace officer status or certification.
- All applications must be submitted online. Resumes emailed/faxed will not be considered.
- Only applicants who are asked for an interview will be contacted.
- NOTE: Department of Human Resource Management rules regarding promotions and transfers apply to current state employees.