Beach Lake Sprinkler Fire Protection Services, a subsidiary of Davis-Ulmer Sprinkler Company, was founded in 1992 and is a well-rounded fire protection company with two offices: Beach Lake, PA and Brooksville, FL. We excel in new construction, renovation, retrofit, and service work for warehouse, distribution, pharmaceutical, hospital, nursing home, industrial, residential and retail markets.

At Beach Lake Sprinkler/Davis-Ulmer, we believe that investing and empowering our employees as leaders develops an organization that delivers innovative solutions and services that create a superior customer experience. The unique blend of our leader's abilities and the ownership of their work, combined with our culture and values, creates something that is simply described as the Davis-Ulmer difference. We were recently rewarded as A Great Place to Work!

As a result of continued growth, we are currently seeking candidates for a Fire Sprinkler Apprentice in our St. Augustine, FL location.

Job Responsibilities:

• Physically able to perform trade work
• Valid driver's license and reliable transportation
• Working out of town/ nights/ weekends/ holidays as needed
• Job requires being reliable, responsible, dependable, and fulfilling obligations
• Compliance with any and all company and jobsite specific safety requirements
• Appropriate attire per company handbook
• Ability to work at various heights off ladders and lifts – possibly as high as 100 ft.

Typical tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Preparing system components for installation.
• Laying out of system components for installation.
• Maintaining a clean and organized work area.
• Assisting the sprinkler fitter in the installation of the fire protection system.
• Keeping tools and equipment clean and organized.
• Cutting and boring holes in structures, such as bulkheads, decks, walls, and mains, prior to pipe installation, using hand and power tools.

Job Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of basic hand and power tools
• Good communication skills
• Work well with others
• Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Mathematics - Using mathematics, including measuring, counting, basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and dimensions with and without the aid of a calculator
• Ability to read to a tape measure
• Ability to read a blue print/drawing - initial training provided

Typical work conditions are:

Most work is at the ceiling level using ladders and lift platforms at heights ranging from 8-20 feet and in some cases up to 100 feet. The work is performed at varying degrees of height indoors between the roofs and ceilings of buildings or outside installing underground pipe work in a variety of weather conditions. Work requires physical stamina with considerable climbing, bending and carrying heavy pieces of pipe while working in elements ranging from hot boiler rooms to unheated open buildings. Apprentices receive safety training to improve manual dexterity in handling the tools of the trade without injury and to reduce the risk of injuries from falls.

Davis-Ulmer offers a competitive benefits package which includes health, dental, and vision insurance, a 401K match program, employer funded profit-sharing plan and a variety of voluntary benefits.

Davis-Ulmer and its subsidiaries are affirmative action and equal opportunity employers, and do not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status or characteristic. Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran

DAVIS-ULMER'S ENDURING PURPOSE: "To protect what people value most."

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans.