Lead Plumber

Lead Plumber | Nemours Children’s Health Location: Wilmington, Delaware Help keep a children’s hospital running safely, reliably, and ready for every family who depends on us. At Nemours Children’s Health, our Facilities team plays an essential role in creating a safe, dependable environment for children, families, and associates. We’re looking for an experienced Lead Plumber who combines strong technical expertise with the ability to lead, coach, troubleshoot, and take ownership when the stakes are high. This is an opportunity to bring your plumbing expertise to a setting where your work has a direct connection to our mission. What You’ll Do In this role, you’ll perform skilled plumbing work while helping lead the day-to-day activities of the plumbing team. You’ll help maintain critical steam, heating, cooling, pneumatic, water, sanitary, and drainage systems and work to minimize the risk of interruptions to essential facility utilities. [NAIDHC Lead Plumber | PDF]

You’ll also:

• Install, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair plumbing systems, pipes, valves, fittings, fixtures, water heaters, drainage systems, and related equipment.
• Help coordinate and monitor the daily work of plumbers, supporting quality, productivity, safety, and customer-service expectations.
• Provide coaching and technical guidance and escalate operational or personnel concerns when appropriate.
• Prioritize and complete preventive and corrective maintenance work orders.
• Respond to facility emergencies and help reduce the risk and impact of utility interruptions.
• Collaborate with Facilities colleagues, contractors, vendors, and hospital departments.
• Read and interpret blueprints, engineering documents, and plumbing schematics.
• Maintain plumbing systems in accordance with applicable state and local codes and accreditation requirements.
• Promote a strong safety culture, including appropriate safety procedures and work practices.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and be available for after-hours, weekend, and holiday assignments as needed. [NAIDHC Lead Plumber | PDF]

What You’ll Bring

• High school diploma or GED.
• Minimum of 5 years of plumbing experience.
• Journeyman’s Plumbing License or the ability to obtain one within the first 90 days of employment.
• Master Plumbing License preferred.
• Experience using hand and power tools and related plumbing/testing equipment.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and respond effectively to urgent facility needs.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to coach and support other team members. [NAIDHC Lead Plumber | PDF]

More Than a Plumbing Job In a pediatric healthcare environment, reliable building systems matter. Your expertise helps maintain the infrastructure that allows clinical teams to focus on what matters most: caring for children. If you’re an experienced plumber who takes pride in doing the job right, enjoys solving complex problems, and is ready to step into a hands-on leadership role, we’d love to hear from you. Join Nemours Children’s Health and put your trade expertise to work for a mission that matters.

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals - Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida - along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships.

Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive.

Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.

Learn more at Nemours.org.