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Company

City of Seattle
Address , Seattle, 98104, Wa
Employment type FULL_TIME
Salary $40.85 - $41.85 an hour
Expires 2023-06-16
Posted at 1 year ago
Job Description
Position Description

About Seattle Center:
Seattle Center is the region's premier civic, arts and family gathering place in the core of our city and region, home to more than 30 arts, cultural, and entertainment organizations, family attractions, and tourist amenities. Our mission is to create exceptional events, experiences, and environments that delight and inspire the human spirit to build stronger communities. To support this work, Seattle Center currently employs 220 full-time employees and hundreds of intermittent workers. In 2023 Seattle Center is expanding its role to provide operations, maintenance and public safety services for Seattle’s new Waterfront Park, a series of new public spaces on Seattle’s downtown waterfront between Pioneer Square and the Seattle Aquarium. Seattle Center will bring its deep experience successfully managing public space to the waterfront. As a department of the City of Seattle, Seattle Center contributes to the quality of life for Seattle residents-and the region's economy and image as its top visitor destination.

About this position:
We are seeking a highly skilled Metal Fabricator to join our trades’ team with the Technical Facilities Management (TFM) unit. This position is responsible for repairing equipment, buildings, machinery and vehicles. This position requires that the person know how to interpret drawings and specifications and be able to lay-out work using blueprints, schematics along with manuals. Technical guidelines and metal fabrication work procedures are used in deciding how to repair or fabricate a piece of equipment. Knowledge of metal working skills as well as advanced knowledge of construction and maintenance of a variety of machines is required. This position reports directly to the Plumbers Crew Chief.

Job Responsibilities

You will be successful in this role if you have demonstrated expertise in:
  • Shaping, punching, drilling and securing metal parts, cages, steel decks, trusses, machinery foundations, brackets and hand guard rails.
  • Preparing preliminary cost estimates of materials and labor for specific tasks when needed.
  • Welding using arc, carbon arc, metallic inert gas, tungsten inert gas and oxygen acetylene processes on a variety of both ferrous and non-ferrous metals.
  • Designing, laying out and fabricating a variety of sheet metal ducts, guards, doors and flashings for heating/ventilating/air conditioning systems, machinery, cages, buildings and roofs, etc.
  • Coordinating work activities with other skilled trades depending upon work task.
  • Performing preventive maintenance and repair of small engines (i.e. Electric Scooters, Backpack Blowers, Diesel Pressure Washer/Generators.
  • Interpreting drawings, specifications and lay-outs; marking dimensions, angles, cutouts on metal plates and pipe.
  • Inspecting playground equipment, acting as the department Certified Playground Safety Inspector.
  • Suggesting different/better ways to manage and maintain equipment to supervisor.
  • Fabrication and repair of brackets, frames, pump installations, tanks, piping, panels, tools, shafts and related mechanical equipment.
  • Repairing piping for boilers and chilled water systems.
  • Communicating and coordinating with the crew chief and the campus team for support as needed.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
  • Requires a journey-level status in structural iron, sheet metal or metal fabrication, layouts, repair, welding or burning or four years as a metal trades helper under a metal trades journey worker (or a combination of education and/or apprentice training and/or experience which provides an equivalent background required to perform the work of the class).
  • This position will serve as the department Certified Playground Safety Inspector. This is an integral part of Seattle Centers metal campus operations and responsibilities. A Playground Safety Inspector Certification is required (or obtained during the first 12 months of employment).

License, Certification and Other Requirements:
  • Certified Playground Safety Inspector (within 12 month of employment)
  • Valid Washington State driver's license
You will be successful in this role if you:
  • Can organize work, solve medium to complex problems and manage competing and inflexible deadlines.
  • Can interpret drawings and specifications.
  • Possess excellent customer service skills with ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
  • Can work within a diverse workforce and be effective in a team setting or alone after being given oral or written instructions.
  • Can work independently with little or no supervision.
  • Read and understand blueprints, manuals and schematics.
  • Are willing to solve issues constructively. Seattle Center is a values-based organization that encourages employee participation, open communication, teamwork and collaborative problem solving.
  • Possess the Washington Association of Building Officials (WABO) Certification.

Work Environment/Physical Demands:
  • Required to handle or work with toxic/hazardous equipment and substances.
  • Must be able to stand, walk or bend for extended periods of time.
  • Must have ability to lift 50 pounds and may participate in work that requires frequent lifting of more than 50 pounds.
  • Must be able to work in cramped spaces as well as all heights.
  • Must be able to work outdoors in all types of weather.

Additional Information

The full salary range for this position is $40.85 - $41.85 per hour.

How to Apply:
Applications are reviewed after the posting closes. You must submit the following items to be considered for this position no later than 4:00 pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, May 9, 2023:
  • NEOGOV online (or paper) application
  • Supplemental questionnaire

Your application may be rejected if these items are missing or incomplete. Note, simply providing a cover letter and résumé is not a substitute for completing the application itself.

Final candidates will be asked to provide 3 professional references.

Driving Record - Selected candidate will be required to submit a Driver's Abstract (at your own expense) that demonstrates a good driving record.

Pre-Employment Physical - Successful candidate will be required to pass a pre-employment physical.

Why work at the City?
The City of Seattle recognizes every City employee must play a role in ending institutional and structural racism. Our culture is the result of our behavior, our personal commitments, and the ways that we courageously share our perspectives and encourage others to do the same. To cultivate an antiracist culture, we seek employees who will engage in dismantling racist policies and procedures, unlearn the way things have always been done, and create and provide equitable processes and services. Seattle Office of Civil Rights)

The City of Seattle offers a comprehensive benefits package including vacation, holiday, and sick leave as well as medical, dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurance for employees and their dependents.

More information about employee benefits is available on the City's website at: https://www.seattle.gov/human-resources/benefits/employees-and-covered-family-members/most-employees-plans

For helpful tips on the application process and recruitment process: Working at the City - Human Resources | seattle.gov


The City of Seattle offers a comprehensive benefits package including vacation, holiday and sick leave as well as medical, dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurance for employees and their dependents.