Plumber

Job Summary

This position is assigned a wide variety of duties of a journeyman plumber involving installation, repair, and maintenance of water, gas, and other pipes, valves, fittings, drainage systems, and fixtures at the Oyate Health Care Center. 

Essential Functions

• Read blueprints and follow state and local building codes. 
• Determine the materials and equipment needed for a job.
• Install pipes and fixtures.
• Inspect and test installed pipe systems and pipelines.
• Troubleshoot malfunctioning systems.
• Maintain and repair plumbing systems.
• Collaborate with general contractors, electricians, and other construction professionals.
• Keep all hand and power tools in good working order.
• Maintains safe working conditions in shops and other working areas.
• Other related tasks as assigned.

Professional Behavior

• Effectively plan, organize workload and schedule time to meet the demands of the position. 
• Work in a cooperative and professional manner with OHC and GPTLHB staff. 
• Treat Great Plains tribes and collaborators with dignity and respect. 
• Utilize effective verbal and written communication skills. 
• Advance personal educational development by attending training sessions and seminars as appropriate. 
• Exemplify excellent customer service with tribal stakeholders, health board colleagues, program partners, service recipients, visitors and guests.  
• Foster a work environment of wellness, courtesy, friendliness, helpfulness and respect.  
• Relate well and work collaboratively with coworkers and all levels of staff in a professional manner.  
• Consistently demonstrate respect for and acceptance of differing capabilities, cultures, gender, age, sexual orientation and/or personalities.   
• Maintain and ensure organizational privacy and confidentiality.  
• Handle crisis and tolerate stress professionally. 
• Be self-directed and take proactive initiative to assist others.  
• Resolve issues with other departments and coworkers without direct supervision if needed.   
• Exercise flexibility to alter plans/routines when situations require and continue to perform without projecting stress/frustration that would adversely affect the work environment.  
• Promote an alcohol, tobacco and drug-free lifestyle. 
• Embrace modes of appearance and attire that reflect a professional presence.
• Adhere to GPTLHB policies and procedures. 
• Other duties as assigned by the Supervisor.

Requirements

• Participates in Core Connections training, and applies GPTLHB Core Connections concepts and practices in their work.
• Exemplify excellent customer service with tribal stakeholders, health board colleagues, program partners, service recipients, visitors, and guests.
• Foster a work environment of wellness, courtesy, friendliness, helpfulness, and respect.
• Relate well and work collaboratively with coworkers and all levels of staff in a professional manner.
• Familiarity and/or experience working with American Indian populations and respect for and knowledge of traditional, cultural, and spiritual practices of diverse American Indian communities, as well as an ability to work with other culturally and ethnically diverse populations. 
• Consistently demonstrate respect for and acceptance of differing capabilities, cultures, gender, age, sexual orientation and/or personalities. 
• Maintain and ensure organizational privacy and confidentiality.
• Must be able to handle crisis and tolerate stress professionally.
• Must be self-directed and take proactive initiative to assist others.
• Possess the ability to resolve issues with other departments and coworkers without direct supervision. 
• Able to exercise flexibility to alter plans/routines when situations require and continue to perform without projecting stress/frustration that would adversely affect the work environment.
• Ability to maintain a flexible work schedule, including evenings, weekends and overnight or extended travel as necessary.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to community members, consumers, and other employees of the organization.
• Proficiency with computer programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and other Internet technologies.
• Valid driver’s license must be kept current, and certificates, credentials or licenses must be kept current and consistent with regulations required by applicable federal, state and/or grant regulations.
• Ability to promote an alcohol-, tobacco- and drug-free lifestyle.
• Embrace modes of appearance and attire that reflect a professional presence.
• Adhere to GPTLHB policies and procedures.

Supervisory Controls

The supervisor makes assignments by defining objectives, priorities, and deadlines and assists the employee with unusual situations that do not have clear precedents.

The employee plans and carries out the successive steps and handles problems and deviations in the work assignments in accordance with instructions, policies, previous training, the scope of license/certification, or accepted practices in the occupation.

Completed work is usually evaluated for technical soundness, appropriateness, and conformity to policy and requirements.  The methods used in arriving at the end results are not usually reviewed in detail. 

Guidelines

Guidelines are available but are not completely applicable to the work or have gaps in specificity.

The employee must use judgment in interpreting and adapting guidelines, such as agency policies, regulations, precedents, accreditation requirements, advanced clinical protocols, and work directions for application to specific cases or problems. The employee analyzes results and recommends changes.

The employee uses initiative and resourcefulness in deviating from traditional methods or researching trends and patterns to develop new methods, criteria, or proposed new policies. 

Complexity

The work consists of related steps, processes, or methods.  The decision regarding what needs to be done involves various choices that require the employee to recognize the existence of and differences among a few easily recognizable situations.  Actions to be taken or responses to be made differ in such things as the source of information, the kind of transactions or entries, or other differences of a factual nature. 

Scope and Effect

The work involves treating a variety of conventional problems, questions, or situations in conformance with established criteria.  The work product or service affects the design or operation of systems, programs, or equipment; the adequacy of such; the social, physical, and economic well-being of people; or the social or economic well-being of the organization. 

Personal Contacts

The personal contacts are with employees in the organization but outside the immediate department. People contacted generally are engaged in different functions, missions, and kinds of work, and may be representatives from various levels and departments within the organization, partner organizations, Tribal affiliate organizations, and employees of other healthcare organizations.  Personal contact, at this level, may also made with members of the general public, as individuals or groups, in a moderately structured setting. 

Purpose of Contacts

The purpose is to obtain, clarify, or give facts or information regardless of the nature of those facts; i.e., the facts or information may range from easily understood to highly technical. 

Physical Demands

The work requires considerable and strenuous physical exertion, such as frequent climbing of tall ladders, lifting heavy objects over 50 pounds, crouching or crawling in restricted areas, and defending oneself or others against physical attack. The employee must be able to read, write, speak and hear.

Work Environment

The work environment involves high risks with exposure to potentially dangerous situations or unusual environmental stress that require a range of safety and other precautions, e.g., working at great heights under extreme outdoor weather conditions, subject to possible physical attack or mob conditions, or similar situations where conditions cannot be controlled. 

Supervisory and Management Responsibility

This position has no formally assigned supervisory responsibility or authority. The employee is responsible only for the performance of their own assigned work. They may be asked to train new employees in the fundamentals of the jobs or to participate in cross‑training of other employees in the department, but such assignments do not include the on‑going authority to assign and review work of other employees or to recommend or take corrective action with regard to other employees' performance. 

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements

Education/Relevant Experience:  Bachelor’s degree and one (1) year of experience, or associate’s degree and three (3) years’ experience, or high school diploma or GED and five (5) years of progressively responsible experience.  

This position requires post-secondary education and/or experience. Individuals must have applicable education and/or experience applying an extensive body of rules, procedures, or operations to perform a wide variety of interrelated or nonstandard procedural assignments and resolve a wide range of problems or to apply standard procedures in a technical field to perform such work as adapting equipment (requires consideration of the functioning characteristics of equipment), interpreting results of tests based on previous experience and observations (rather than directly reading instruments or other measures), or extracting information from various sources (requires considering the applicability of the information and the characteristics and quality of the sources).

Preferred Education Requirements

Completion of a formal training program and three (3) years apprenticeship; or a high school diploma and four (4) years apprenticeship as required by the state of South Dakota, for licensure as a Journeyman Plumber. 

The GPTLHB is a tribal organization that follows tribal preference laws. Our policy is to give preference to qualified Indian/Tribal candidates over qualified non-native candidates in hiring decisions if all other qualifications are equal.  

Employment is contingent upon the outcome of all required criminal background checks.  

Compliance with our Employee Health Procedure is a condition of employment.  You are required to agree that you will comply with all job-related employee health screening and immunizations prior to your first day of employment.  Jobs require that you have documentation that you have completed the following immunizations prior to your first day of employment: MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella, Varicella (Chicken Pox), Hepatitis B, Influenza, T-dap (Tetanus - Diphtheria - Pertussis), and COVID-19 vaccination is required.