Sheet Metal Worker

Sheet Metal Worker

City of Springfield Human Resources

The City of Springfield Human Resources is recruiting a skilled Sheet Metal Worker to fabricate, install, and repair municipal sheet metal equipment and articles, as well as to lay and repair roofs of municipal buildings.

Note: This Civil Service position is not currently open. Should an opening become available, applicants will be considered from the list of applicants starting with the oldest application date.

Applicants must be at least 16 years of age at the time of filing application. Incomplete applications will not be processed.

Essential Functions

• Studies drawings and specifications; installs, assembles, repairs, and maintains sheet metal components of hot air heating, ventilating, exhaust, and blow pipe systems.
• Fabricates, assembles, installs, alters, and repairs metal structures, equipment, and articles such as lavatory walls and partitions, fire doors, shelves, lockers, cabinets, tanks, boxes, fences, grills, grates, louvers; repairs radiators, smoke stacks, fire escapes, elevator sidings, cables, and gates.
• Fabricates, installs, and repairs sheet metal roofs, gutters, leaders, cornices, skylights, flashing, and other roof components; uses mallets, soldering tools, and other hand tools to lay the roof.
• Lays and repairs slate roofs by covering sheathing with roofing felt, aligning slate, punching holes for nailing, fitting slate to ridges, valleys, and edges, and nailing metal flashing at angles of intersection.
• Lays and repairs asphalt, tar, and gravel roofs by applying alternate layers of hot tar and asphalt and a surface layer of gravel.
• Lays and repairs all kinds of commercial composition roofs by cutting composition to fit corners, pipes, and other objects, and nailing or cementing composition to the roof base and flashing to side walls.
• Supervises a helper engaged in semi‑skilled and manual tasks related to the trade.
• Performs related work as required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Considerable knowledge of standard practices, materials, tools, equipment, processes, and techniques in the sheet metal trade.
• Considerable knowledge of pertinent sections of the municipal building codes.
• Ability to work from written and oral instructions, sketches, and drawings.
• Skill in the use of tools, equipment, and materials of the trade.

Seniority Level
:
Entry level

Employment Type
:
Full‑time

Job Function
:
Management and Manufacturing

Industry
:
Government Administration