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About This Role

The Division of Facilities at K-State is hiring for a Plumber position. This position is responsible for planning and scheduling from start to finish any assigned projects by using journey level knowledge of plumbing techniques to install, remove, replace, or repair all utility lines above or below grade.

The Division of Facilities is an action-oriented service organization within the K-State family. We plan, budget, build, operate, maintain, clean, supply and transport. We are custodians, landscapers, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, mechanics, project managers, engineers, architects, accountants, and administrative professionals - all stewards and leaders of an inspiring campus shared by many.

We wholeheartedly embrace the K-State traditions of excellence, integrity and professionalism, and we are enthusiastic champions of K-State's visionary goal to become a Top 50 Public Research University by 2025.

This position is on-site.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Requires two years of relevant experience. Education may be substituted for experience as determined relevant by a hiring manager.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to work from sketches, blueprints, and specifications, and read and understand specific instructions in English.


• Prefer high school graduate or equivalent with vocational training in the plumbing trade plus thirty months of experience in plumbing work.

Other Requirements:

• Have and maintain a valid driver's license.


• Thirty months of experience in plumbing work.


• Become a certified Class I repair and maintenance operations asbestos worker during the probationary period and maintain it.


• Cross connection control and back-flow prevention certification required during the initial probationary period.


• Work requires considerable physical exertion to transport equipment/material weighing over 50 pounds unassisted on a repetitive basis.


• Daily bend, stoop, and crawl to access small spaces and work in extreme temperatures.

Sponsorship eligibility:

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. on an ongoing basis without sponsorship.

Please submit the following documents:

1. Online application.


2. Resume with three professional references.

Immediately and continues until position is filled.

$20.30 to $31.45 hourly