Correctional Trades Leader

Posting number: 27-00059

Department: 242 Corrections - Iowa State Penitentiary (Ft Madison)

Job classification: Correctional Trades Leader

Posting type: Open & Promotional

Categories: Corrections, Building & Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance

Summary

Perform preventive maintenance, trouble shooting and repairs to building structures, grounds, equipment and institutional systems. 
Knowledgeable in multiple areas (IE general construction, new construction, planning, designing, steam, plumbing, refrigeration, HVAC, welding and fabrication).
Perform building maintenance in order to assure safe, well maintained facilities.
Provide equipment maintenance to assure all equipment and machinery is safe and in good operational condition.
Maintain institutional buildings and grounds.
Properly service and train offenders on work crews to increase skills and promote rehabilitation.
Provide orientation to offenders when they are assigned to your crew. Enforce all department and institutional rules.

E-Verify and Right to Work
The State of Iowa participates in E-Verify, a federal program that helps employers confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. Within the required timeframe, new hires will be verified through the E-Verify system to ensure authorization to work in the United States. The State of Iowa also complies with the federal Right to Work laws, which protect employees’ rights to work without being required to join a labor organization. For more information, please visit www.e-verify.gov.

Qualifications

Applicants must meet at least one of the following minimum requirements to qualify for positions in this job classification:

1. Four years of full-time work experience in one or more of the recognized building (e.g., carpentry, painting, plumbing/pipefitting, electrical and masonry) and mechanical/repair (e.g., air conditioning/ heating, auto mechanics, upholstery and welding) trades.
2. A total of four years of education and/or full-time experience (as described in number one), where thirty semester hours of accredited college or university coursework in a recognized building and mechanical trade for each year of the required experience.
3. Current, continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes one year of full-time work as a Furniture Upholsterer, Mason, Maintenance Repairer, Carpenter 1 or 2, Painter 1 or 2, Plumber 1 or 2, or Welder.

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Supplemental information

Within a period of time, as determined by the appointing authority, persons in this class may be required to obtain a license to perform electrical work in accordance with Chapter 103, Iowa Code

Designated positions in this job class require applicants to obtain the required commercial driver's license and endorsements within a period of time as determined by the appointing authority at the time of hire.