San Diego Zoo Job Openings – Senior Construction

Job Description:

The Senior Construction & Maintenance Worker will perform a variety of skilled and skilled work in the maintenance, construction, alteration, remodeling and repair of organization buildings, facilities, equipment and grounds; and performs related work as required. This position reports to the Lead Construction and Maintenance Worker or C&M Supervisor/Manager.

Job Responsibilities:

• Excellent knowledge of welding methods and materials
• Develop innovative maintenance and repair solutions to ensure operational needs are met;
• Operates and drives a variety of heavy, medium, and light duty motorized vehicles, such as trucks, forklifts, skip loaders, graders, back hoes, water and dump trucks, etc.;
• Assembles metal components to provide timely facility repairs including railings, doors, gates, animal habitats and various zoo facilities.
• Ability to work well in a team environment and independently;
• Use disc grinder to smooth out, weld, or grind parts prior to welding;
• Understand and apply welding techniques; works quickly and skillfully with their hands; accepts responsibility for the work performed; have the ability to visualize what the finished product should look like; operates welding equipment with skill.
• Operate manual and automated welding units and equipment by depositing metal from electrode to work piece and joins edges of work piece;

Job Requirements:

• 5 years’ experience working for a license welder contractor
• An equivalent combination of journey-level experience and apprenticeship training from a state accredited welding apprenticeship program.
• Knowledge in metal fabrication

Qualification & Experience:

• Education, training, and/or experience as a journey-level Welder and possesses the essential functions, knowledge and skills outlined
• Current valid California Driver’s License in good standing
• Methods, practices and procedures in one or more of the building and construction trades
• Work and material estimating
• Tools, equipment and materials used in one or more of the building and construction trades
• Safely and properly handle and operate the tools and equipment used in the assigned building and construction trade(s)

Job Details:

Company: San Diego Zoo Global

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: San Diego, CA, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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