Locksmith Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent and completion of a four-year apprenticeship program; four years’ experience as a trade-related trainee may substitute for completion of the apprenticeship program.
• Five years of journeyman experience.
• Experience performing standard trade-related procedures and general knowledge of trade-related methods, materials, tools, and equipment.
• General knowledge of industrial and commercial locksmithing.
• Experience operating key-cutting and code-cutting machines.
• Experience maintaining records and preparing reports.
• Familiarity with city and state building codes, OSHA rules and regulations, standard safety practices and equipment, and other workplace safety requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Related undergraduate study.
• Experience troubleshooting, maintaining, and repairing automatic door operators and hardwired and standalone access-control systems.
• Experience with high-security key systems and the ability to re-key high-security cylinders.
• Familiarity with ADA, fire-door, and life-safety codes, and with OSHPD and JCAHO rules and regulations pertaining to health facilities.

Responsibilities

• Perform standard and advanced locksmith procedures, including high-security keying and creating and maintaining master key systems.
• Repair, install, and re-key mechanical locks, electrified hardware, and access-control locks and systems.
• Perform alterations, maintenance, and repairs on University lock systems and access-control systems.
• Install panic hardware, locksets, electrical releases, and standalone or hardwired electrified access-control hardware.
• Determine whether equipment needs repair or replacement and estimate materials required for job components.
• Maintain key records, order materials, and prepare reports or maintenance records as needed.
• Operate key-cutting and code-cutting machines, including for high-security cylinders.
• Work from blueprints, specifications, and plans.
• Provide leadership and guidance to journeymen, Zone Maintenance Technicians, and other employees; set priorities and timelines and monitor work.
• Train employees in specific skills and tasks and identify additional or continuing training needs.
• Maintain safe working conditions, keep job sites clean during work and clean up after completion, and store and maintain supplies, tools, and equipment.
• Report for emergency duty under applicable university and departmental emergency plans, complete required training, assist with response efforts, and mobilize other staff if needed.
• Perform other related duties as assigned or requested.

Benefits

• Tuition assistance for the employee and family.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance options.
• 403(b) retirement account with a 5% USC matching contribution.
• 50% subsidy off Metro, LADOT, and Metrolink passes.