Mason, Housing Operations

HOUSING OPERATIONS (BA-OPER-IUBLA)

Housing Operations supports the on-campus housing and dining for over 12,000 students. We strive to create life-changing experiences by building relationships, developing others, and creating a sense of belonging for our students, their families, and the Indiana University (IU) community.

With our quality, dependable and flexible services, our maintenance team provides a safe, healthy, and welcoming environment for our students, staff, and faculty.

Department-Specific Responsibilities

• Lays brick, block, and stone at a journeyman level
• Pours and finishes concrete
• Figures material for brick, block, stone, mortar, sand and other patching material for projects
• Mixes mortar and other patching material in small to large quantiles for a consistency to be used in patching walls and horizontal and vertical surfaces
• Cuts out joints in masonry and concrete and tuck points or caulks back to match existing
• Constructs scaffolding and work off; works out of boom truck or lift and preforms stage work as needed
  
  

General Responsibilities

• Studies blueprints, drawings, plans, or sketches to construct, maintain, and repair a variety of masonry structures, such as walls, steps, walkways, concrete pads, floors, curbs, and exterior and interior surfaces and coatings
• Shoots grade and lays out site for pouring of footings and foundations
• Constructs forms, supports, and bracing systems
• Mixes cement, sand, aggregate, additives, and water to produce concrete, grout, mortar, or slurry using hoe, trowel, shovel, or power mixing equipment
• Spreads, levels, and smooths concrete using rake, shovel, hand or power trowel, hand or power screed, and float
• Molds expansion joints and edges using edging tools, jointers, and straight edge
• Mixes and/or applies surface coatings such as sealer, curing and hardening agents, masonry stains, and colorings
• Lays and binds building materials such as brick, ceramic tile, concrete block, cinder block, glass block, and terra cotta block with mortar and other substances
• Breaks or cuts bricks, blocks, and rough and irregular stone to size using trowel edge, hammer, chisel, or power saw
• Calculates angles and courses and determines vertical and horizontal alignment of courses
• Determines and implements the best layout to achieve a desired pattern
• Repairs and finishes mortar joints between stones, bricks, or blocks of masonry wall
• Removes mortar to specified depths using raker, hammer, chisel, power saw, and compressed air
• May use mortar bag to force mortar into joints
• Cleans and prepares surfaces
• Mixes plaster, stucco, and other compounds to desired consistency and applies to walls, ceilings, or partitions of buildings using trowels, brushes, or spray guns
• Caulks windows, doors, or cracks in wall with caulking gun
• Performs other general building maintenance as needed
• Participates in the training of apprentices and/or other workers as needed
• Drives vehicle as needed
  
  

EDUCATION

Required

• High school diploma or equivalent (such as HSED or GED)
  
  

Required

WORK EXPERIENCE / LICENSES AND CERTIFICATES

• 5 years verifiable journey level experience in the masonry field; OR
• Certificate in relevant Department of Labor (DOL) apprenticed trade
• Valid driver's license with the ability to be insured by Indiana University upon date of hire
  
  

Skills

Required

• Ability to work in a safe and efficient manner
• Proficient written and verbal communication skills
• Maintains a high degree of professionalism
• Demonstrates time management and priority setting skills
• Demonstrates a high commitment to quality
• Possesses flexibility to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty
• Highly thorough and dependable
• Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure
• Excellent organizational skills
• Ability to represent the company with external constituents
• Ability to drive multiple projects to successful completion
• Strong verbal communication and listening skills
• Ability to build strong customer relationships
• Knowledge of applicable building codes, regulations, or ordinances
• Knowledge of and ability to use materials, methods/principles, and tools specific to the needs of the Mason trade
• Ability to read and interpret drawings, blueprints and/or schematics
• Ability to determine the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job
• Ability to operate computer
• Ability to work with wide variety of cultures and backgrounds
  
  

This role regularly requires the ability to effectively communicate. This role frequently requires the ability to handle equipment. This role frequently requires the ability to remain stationary and ascend/descend ladders/stairs. This role requires the ability to move objects weighing up to 50 pounds. The role requires the ability to detect items in proximity as well as far away; discern between colors; detect objects in peripheral space of self; discern items in detail; and to have good depth perception. The person in this role must be able to perform the essential functions with or without an accommodation.

Salary plan and grade: SM3LJ

This is an AFSCME union covered position.

Bloomington, Indiana

For full-time staff employees, Indiana University offers a wide array of benefits including:

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance
• Health savings account with generous IU contributions
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Basic group life insurance paid by IU
• Voluntary supplemental life, long-term disability, critical illness, and supplemental accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Base retirement plan with generous IU contributions, subject to vesting
• Voluntary supplemental retirement plan options
• Tuition subsidy for employees and family members taking IU courses
• 10 paid holidays plus a paid winter break each year
• Generous paid time off plans
• Paid leave for new parents and IU-sponsored volunteer events
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
  
  

Learn more about our benefits by reviewing the IU Benefit Programs Brochure.

Career Level: Mastery

FLSA: Nonexempt

Job Function: Engineering, Trades & Facility

Job Family: Licensed & Skilled Trades

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