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Bargaining Unit:

CSEA

Job Summary:

The Department of Facilities Management and Development at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is seeking a full-time Trades Specialist, Locksmith.

Trades Specialist (Locksmith): non-competitive; characterized by the full-time performance of all repair, maintenance, installation, and record-keeping activities concerning locking mechanisms at a State facility. In this capacity, incumbents use a variety of small hand and bench tools to repair and install locks, set lock cylinders, change lock combinations, manufacture parts of lock mechanisms, and open jammed locks. Also characteristic of this class are activities concerned with estimating materials needed, and establishing and maintaining extensive lock and key record systems. A Trades Specialist (Locksmith) periodically performs maintenance tasks to assist other skilled tradespersons on the maintenance team.

Illustrative Duties

Repairs locks that have become jammed or are otherwise inoperative:

• Using small hand tools, removes locking mechanisms from doors, gates, cabinets, and other hardware.
• Opens the lock and removes defective parts or debris causing malfunction.
• May manufacture springs, tumblers, or levers to fit a specific lock.
• Inserts new part into lock mechanism.
• Adjusts tumblers and levers.
• May manufacture keys to fit the repaired lock.

Installs and maintains the lock and key system in a State facility:

• Using a variety of small hand tools and following manufacturers' instructions, installs new locks in doors, windows, and cabinets.
• Periodically sets lock cylinders and changes combinations on locks.
• Computes changes in lock combinations and key changes to avoid duplication of combinations and records changes.
• Maintains locks by disassembling them, cleaning, lubricating and replacing parts, and, manufacturing parts such as screws and springs.
• Opens locks where keys are not available or where locks are jammed.
• Makes new and duplicate keys.
• Keeps extra keys for locks in secure area.
• Estimates materials needed for lock and key system.

May perform carpentry tasks related to lock and key system:

• Installs door frames and window frames at a facility.
• Installs door checks, sash fittings, and door threshold.
• Prepares doors from slab to fully functioning doors.
• Glazes windows.
• Estimates materials needed for these functions.

Establishes and maintains a record system in order to avoid key and lock duplication, and to ensure the required security of the facility and its contents:

• Records placement of locks, lock combinations and number of keys fitting each lock; adjusts records to reflect changes.
• Records information indicating person to whom keys and/or locks are issued.
• Installs, adjusts, and repairs door operators and closers.

May install, repair, adjust, and maintain access control system, electronic door locking devices and controls.

Required Qualifications:

• Non-competitive: 4-years of full-time experience in locksmithing under a skilled tradesperson which would provide training equivalent to that given in a training, apprenticeship, or equivalent program;
  • OR an equivalent combination of experience and training gained by completion of technical courses in locksmithing at a school, institute, or branch of the Armed Services.
• When required to operate motor vehicles, candidates must possess a valid New York State driver's license appropriate for the type of vehicle to be operated.

Preferred Qualifications:

Work Schedule:

Variable Days; 7:30am to 4:00pm (Full-Time)

Salary Grade/Rank:

Salary Range:

As per civil service guidelines

• Hiring Rate: $48,956 to $59,757 Base Salary plus $3,400 Location Pay

Executive Order:

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation.  If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, familial status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction, and all other protected classes under federal or state laws.

Women, minorities, veterans, individuals with disabilities and members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.

If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please contact Human Resources at ada@downstate.edu