Locksmith

Locksmith

Help Duties include, but are not limited to the following tasks:

• Repairs, modifies, and installs a variety of locking devices intended to secure doors, desks, compartments, mobile equipment, safes, vaults, and other secured locations.
• Manufactures, duplicates keys and keys (placing/changing) of combinations for locking mechanisms.
• Experience with the construction, operation, and functional characteristics of locking devices.
• Manufactures replacement parts, changes combinations, establishes and master key systems including pinning the cores and building the lock set assembly.
• Files, drills, chisels, and grinds materials to facilitate a variety of installation and repair processes.
• Disassembles, repairs, cleans, reassembles and reinstalls a large variety of moderate to extremely complex locking devices to include door modification or lock sets.
• Utilizes all tools required of the position including lock picking tools, files, drills, chisels, and grinders.
• Use measuring devices like a key depth gauge and a measuring tape in order to enact installation, repairs and maintenance.
• Skilled in usage of volt meter to establish correct parameters for electronic security systems installation, repairs, and maintenance.
• Provides expert advice to management on the most appropriate locks and systems for specific security requirements and be able to review blueprints.
• Attends seminars, trainings and carefully reviews trade journals and manuals to maintain expert knowledge of locks and associated hardware.
• Reads, interprets, applies technical manuals, manufacturers diagrams/specifications and be able to prepare diagrams to identify dimensions or special part requirements.
• Uses a large variety of intricate tools to perform this work and provide maintenance on the same.
• Uses a variety of tools and skill to work with total accuracy to preclude the destruction of expensive security items.
• Fabricates tools and parts from a variety of materials using welding equipment, hand tools and power tools such as grinders, lathes, milling machines, and drill presses.
• Troubleshoots malfunctioning components and required repairs
• Determines precise locations and angles for drilling without harming the contents or causing permanent damage to the mechanism or container.
• Examines all locks worked on for evidence of attempted neutralization and takes corrective action.

Work Schedule: 8:00- 4:30pm, Monday - Friday Compressed/Flexible Schedule: Not Authorized Position Description Title/PD#: Locksmith/PD13573A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized