Plumbing Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Carry out the planned and reactive maintenance of storage tanks, sanitary ware, fixtures, and fittings (taps, showers, thermostatic mixer valves, cisterns, and others) domestic hot and cold-water systems, pipework, drainage system, water treatment systems, and other mechanical systems including water-based fire-fighting systems.
• Participate in emergency on-call service during non-working hours, weekends, and public holidays.
• Work alone with minimum supervision and/or within a team responsible to the Supervisor.
• Participate in the Health, Safety & Risk programs including risk assessment of planned and reactive maintenance work activities.
• Use safe systems of work when working with all plant and equipment and ensure the same with the department and among sub-contractors and third parties.
• Monitor, top-up, flush, adjust, rectify and /or repair water treatment systems, and domestic hot and cold-water systems and maintain and update records daily.
• Assist in monitoring water consumption, collating consumption figures, and updating records as required.
• To integrate and communicate effectively with other trade staff (Electrical, Mechanical, and Civil) as required.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge for the safe and efficient performance of all duties.
• Participate in overtime, shift work, and/or out-of-hours working as governed by the necessity to maintain continuity of operation of essential plant and systems.