Plumbing Journeyman Job in Spencer 51301, Iowa US

Journeyman Plumber

 

Reports to – Foreman

 

Job Scope:

The Journeyman is to carrying out the work assigned by the job foreman. This person is responsible for high quality of work and their production. This person is also to add in educating apprentices working along with them. Plumbers are skilled craftsmen who install, repair, and alter pipe systems that carry gases, water and other liquids required for sanitation, storm water, industrial production, and other uses. They install plumbing fixtures, appliances, bathtubs, basins, sinks, showers, and grease line systems. They work from blueprints and working drawings to determine materials required for installation. They cut and thread pipe using pipe cutters, cutting torches, and pipe threading machines.

 

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Working Conditions:

 Journeyman may have to work indoors or outdoors on a ladder or scaffold, underground in a trench, a crawl space under a building, or in the unfinished basement of a new building. Some of the work is dirty and messy in dusty or muddy conditions. The work is active and strenuous, with standing, bending, crawling, lifting, pulling, and pushing, and is often done in strict accordance with the state plumbing and mechanical code regulations.