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Qualified Craft Worker - Supreme Court Date Posted: 04/11/2025
Posting Number: 25-3000-009
Application Deadline: 04/28/2025Employee Benefits

Location:
Facilities Unit: Hartford

Salary Range: $63,137 - $81,998/year – plus State of Connecticut benefits. New employees begin at the minimum. The starting salary for existing state employees may be higher than the minimum, in accordance with existing Judicial Branch policy.

Employee Benefits:

Top notch array of health and retirement benefits including but not limited to: paid holiday leave, paid vacation leave, paid sick leave, three paid personal leave days per calendar year, group life insurance, 457 Deferred Compensation, voluntary flexible spending account programs, discounted auto and home insurance policies, long term disability, short term disability and hybrid remote work may be available for certain job positions.

Qualified Craft Worker - Supreme Court

Seeking a Qualified Craft Worker - Supreme Court (Carpentry, Electrical, HVAC). Examples of duties the incumbent of the selected trade(s): carpentry, electrical, HVAC will perform may include the following: performs highly skilled maintenance work requiring the application of trade skills, codes and standard trade practices; supplies to their supervisor estimates of time and material required on assigned tasks; keeps necessary records; provides recommendations of necessary repairs, may be the sole worker running a skilled trade area; performs duties related to the trade or to similar trade areas as required, may supervise lower level staff as needed. In the absence of maintenance staff, the selected candidate may be asked to perform duties including basic maintenance and custodial tasks.

Preferred candidates will have considerable knowledge of and ability to apply the standard tools, materials, methods and practices of the particular trade(s); interpersonal skills; oral and written communication skills; basic computer skills; ability to prepare estimates and keep shop records.

Incumbent may be required to respond to the Supreme Court to after-hours alarm notifications; may be required to travel in the course of their daily work.

DIVISION: Office of the Chief Court Administrator

CLASS DEFINITION: This class is accountable for performing highly skilled duties in one or more trade areas.

GUIDELINES FOR CLASS USE: This class is restricted to the Supreme Court/State Library building for persons spending the majority of their work time in the performance of highly skilled duties in one or more trade areas. It is not intended that this class be the normal progression for all Maintainers; this class is reserved solely for positions where trade level skills are clearly required for a major portion of a person’s duties. Incumbents may be required to perform duties in the same or related trade areas up to the level of Qualified Craft Worker.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED: Works under the general supervision of an employee of higher grade.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED: May lead lower level employees as assigned.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES: Performs highly skilled maintenance and/or construction work requiring the application of trade skills, codes, and standard trade practices; makes estimates of time, personnel, and material required on assigned tasks; keeps necessary records; may be the sole worker running a skilled trade area; performs duties related to the trade or to similar trade areas as required; performs related duties as required.

Carpentry: Performs highly skilled carpentry tasks in accordance with standard trade practices; performs alterations, repairs and maintenance of structures and facilities; performs skilled bench work, operating with such equipment as power saws, joiners, wood lathes, planers, boring, sanding, and mortising machines; builds and repairs cabinets; cleans, sharpens and repairs hand and bench tools; lays resilient flooring and formica; may cut glass and glaze windows; may fabricate signs.

Electrical: Performs highly skilled tasks in accordance with national and local codes and standard trade practices; lays out and installs electrical conduit for power and lighting; makes repairs to electrical motors, controllers, switchboard panels, traffic lights, lights, power circuits, ventilating fans, electronic counting and traffic control devices, intercommunication systems and electrical generators; installs open and concealed wiring and lighting fixtures; maintains and repairs unit heaters, fans, building maintenance machines and equipment, gas pumps, refrigeration units, diesel electric generators, movable bridges, fire alarm systems, etc.; repairs relays and switches; rewinds motors, bends pipes; installs, repairs and maintains oil burners; performs necessary safety testing of electrical equipment and keeps required records; may do pole work; may diagnose failures and repair drilling and patching to facilitate installations.

HVAC: Performs highly skilled tasks in accordance with standard trade practices and codes on air systems used in heating and ventilation; operates, maintains, repairs, installs, modifies and assembles air conditioning equipment and systems which use Freon or chilled water for air cooling means and air or water for condenser means; may install, modify, repair and assemble the electrical or pneumatic controls for this type of equipment; determines required cooling capacity of units needed for small areas; uses and interprets a psychometric chart; controls and measures air flow, room air changes and room pressurizing; monitors computerized control systems; performs minor tests for fuel specific gravity and gas leaks; adds water treatment chemicals to boilers; may inspect and repair steam traps fed by main system at various locations; may remove pipe insulation materials associated with the repair of pipes and fittings using OSHA approved methods.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITY: Considerable knowledge of and ability to apply the standard tools, materials, methods and practices of the particular trade(s); interpersonal skills; oral and written communication skills; basic computer skills; ability to prepare estimates and keep shop records.

EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING
General Experience: Four years of experience in the particular trade area (s) indicated by the parenthetical title.
Special Experience: Two years of the General Experience must have been performing skilled trade functions in the particular craft indicated by the parenthetical title. Housekeeping or custodial duties will not be considered as qualifying experience.

Substitutions Allowed: Graduation from a vocational or technical school with a diploma designating completion of subject requirements in a maintenance trade may be substituted for up to two years of the General Experience.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Incumbents may be required to possess and maintain appropriate current licenses and permits.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Candidates must be in good health; have and retain sufficient physical strength, stamina, agility, visual and auditory acuity to perform the duties of the class. Applicants may be required to pass a physical examination.

WORKING CONDITIONS: Incumbents may be required to lift moderate to heavy weights; may be exposed to extreme weather conditions and to risk of injury from equipment.