Generic Job Description Piano Technician Grade D
Representative Duties:
Tunes, repairs, and maintains University pianos and harpsichords. Sets instrument temperate.
Replaces pins, strings and keys.
Serves as a principle source of information on the purchase and maintenance of University pianos.
Communicates with vendors for parts and information. Monitors manufacturer guarantees.
Ensures proper playing condition of instruments.
Plans and schedules instrument repairs, tuning and maintenance.
Performs additional functions incidental to tuning activities.
Family: Technical Support
Job Code: 737 Date: 2/89
The job duties listed above are representative and characteristic of the duties required and the level of the work performed in the job title. The duties will vary from incumbent to incumbent in the job title.
Yale University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 737 Piano Technician Grade D
Required Knowledge:
Advanced knowledge; college-degree; substantial knowledge in a specialized field; substantial knowledge in a broader field of learning.
Extensive knowledge of craft or trade.
Required Skills
Understands short notes, basic written instructions, and forms.
Office and Administrative Skills
Not applicable.
Experience, Education, and Formal Training
Six years of related work experience, four of them in the same job family at the next lower level, and a high school level education; or four years of related work experience and an Associate degree; or little or no work experience and a Bachelor degree in a related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
Complexity and Organization
Wide variety of complicated job tasks requiring coordinating numerous processes/methods.
Interpersonal Relations
Some involvement outside immediate work unit.
Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on general matters.
Understands and conveys more complex messages and instructions, and takes action accordingly.
Supervisory Guidelines
Work may or may not be reviewed.
Incumbent plans and schedules own work and/or work of others based on the understanding of broadly defined objectives and priorities; supervisor reviews work after completion.
Independent Judgment
Established procedures/policies govern many work situations.
Regular exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
Problems solved by using established procedures.
Leadership Responsibility
Not applicable.
Impact and Consequence of Error
Work affects both outside the work unit and outside the University.
Errors are difficult to recognize and correct and can cause harm or financial loss to individuals, departments, and the University, or to other individuals and groups.
Working Conditions
Occasional possibility of safety risks.
Occasional conflicting demands, time pressures, deadlines, or emergencies.
Regular sustained concentration.
Considerable physical effort or a high degree of fine finger or hand dexterity.
Example 1
Piano Technician (737)
Salary: D
General Purpose:
Maintain concert, studio, rehearsal hall, and practice room pianos for School of Music, and the Department of Music. Develop and institute a long-term plan for ongoing maintenance and replacement of pianos at the University.
Essential Duties of the Position:
1. Working with the faculty of the Yale School of Music, Department of Music, and Institute of Sacred Music, plan the maintenance, overhaul, moving, and replacement of music area pianos.
2. With one other full-time piano technician, tune and maintain all instruments. Some evenings and weekends will be required for special concert tunings.
3. Administrate budget provided for piano maintenance.
4. Tune and repair pianos located in colleges and other settings on campus.
Experience and Training:
1. Six years of related work experience, at least four of them in tuning, regulating, repairing and maintaining pianos for artist-level teaching and performance. Four of them in the same job family at the next lower level, and a high-school level education; or four years of related work experience and an Associate’s degree; or little or no work experience and a Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or an equivalent combination of
experience and education.
2. Preferred: Use of computer systems including word processing, internet applications, database management, and spreadsheets.