CONTROL TECHNICIAN - LOCK SHOP

$79,260 - $105,624/Yr

University of Washington - Bothell, WA

Full-time - Entry Level

Bothell, WA

10,001+ employees

Educational Services

About the position

The Control Technician - Lock Shop position at Harborview Medical Center involves performing skilled work in the inspection, testing, servicing, installation, and maintenance of various control systems, including mechanical, pneumatic, electronic, electrical, and computer controls. This role is crucial for ensuring the proper functioning of heating, air-conditioning, locking, and related equipment within the medical center. The technician will be part of a dedicated team that supports UW Medicine, emphasizing the importance of patient care and safety. In this role, the technician will be responsible for installing, modifying, troubleshooting, diagnosing, testing, repairing, calibrating, and operating a variety of equipment used in heating, ventilating, air-conditioning, refrigeration, and locking systems. A significant aspect of the job includes maintaining positive and negative differential pressures in critical areas such as operating rooms, isolation rooms, and pharmacies, ensuring compliance with CDC recommended air changes per hour (ACH). Additionally, the technician will handle the installation and servicing of temperature and humidity controls for ventilation systems throughout the hospital. The position also requires repairing door locks, panic hardware, and maintaining key records for a large number of staff and vendors. The technician will work with various key cutting machines and maintain master keying records for numerous doors on the Harborview Medical Center campus. This role is essential for maintaining the security and functionality of the medical center's facilities, contributing to the overall mission of providing high-quality healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Install, modify, troubleshoot, diagnose, test, repair, calibrate and operate a variety of mechanical, pneumatic, electrical, and electronic equipment and apparatuses used in heating, ventilating, air-conditioning, refrigeration, and locking systems.
• Maintain positive and negative differential pressures within Operating rooms, Operating room core, Central Processing Utilities, Isolation rooms, ICU rooms, soiled utility rooms, clean utilities rooms, inpatient pharmacy, outpatient pharmacy, transfusion services, laboratories and all adjoining and adjacent spaces.
• Maintain CDC recommended ACH within all Operating rooms, Operating room core, Central Processing Utilities, Isolation rooms, ICU rooms, soiled utility rooms, clean utilities rooms, inpatient pharmacy, outpatient pharmacy, transfusion services, laboratories and all adjoining and adjacent spaces.
• Install and service mechanical pneumatic electrical and electronic temperature and humidity controls for heating and ventilation systems throughout the hospital as needed.
• Repair door locks, closers, panic hardware, hinges, floor closers; work with C&C key cutting machine and tubular and standard key duplicators; maintain key records for thousands of staff, students, and vendors.
• Repair locking furniture desks, file cabinets, partitions, and lockboxes; maintain master keying records for thousands of doors on HMC campus.

Requirements

• Completion of a four-year approved institution course as a Control Technician Trainee; OR four years of applicable experience in installation, repair, and maintenance of electrical and pneumatic control systems.
• Vocational or trade school training in control mechanisms may be substituted, year-for-year, for work experience up to a maximum of two years.
• Successful completion of a job element examination (including written, E & T and oral components) scored on the basis of job related experience, training, skill, ability and other elements which are established through job analysis.

Benefits

• Generous benefits and work/life programs offered by UW Medicine.