Pipefitter, Trades ​/ Skilled Labor

The one position of WG-4204-10, Pipefitter, is at the full performance level located in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), at the Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center (VAMC) in the Engineering Service. The primary purpose of the position is to perform primarily the duties of a Pipefitter.

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Duties include but are not limited to:

* Performs the duties of a pipefitter while working from assigned work orders.

* Reads and understands manufacturers recommendations.

* Provides his/her own plans, sketches or red-line blue prints so that the updated installs will be captured by our drawing section of engineering.

* Installs, repairs, and Modifies high pressure systems by setting up routes, placing and cutting route openings, placing hangers for proper pitch and elevation, and determining and installing such things as risers, flexible branches, expansion joints, pumps, gauges, and pressure regulators in the combination needed to support the pressures of the systems and that ensure the proper operation of the systems.

* Conducts general housekeeping and tool inventory on assigned interval Conducts online and phone research of hard to get materials and OEM parts for Pipe fitting equipment, which may not available to open market.

* Repairs steam traps, steam heating, flash and expansion tanks, condensate return lines, vacuum, circulating pumps, medical gas systems, fire suppression systems and building management systems such as METASYS.

* Installs, modifies, and repairs plumbing, plumbing fixtures, and general plumbing systems

* Closes out Work Orders, details preventive maintenance reports, orders parts and materials for jobs and projects, to include any spare parts identified

Work Schedule:

Monday-Friday 7:00 am-3:30 pm

Position Description Title/PD#:
Pipefitter/PD13604A

Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

Not authorized