Industrial Rigid Tubing Fabrication Specialist

Your day building high-performance machines

Step onto the build floor and turn prints into precision. You’ll shape, fit, and install steel and stainless-steel hard lines that bring industrial machinery and machine tool equipment to life. From planning routes to final inspection, your craftsmanship ensures clean, reliable, and serviceable installations.

Note:

This role focuses on rigid tubing and hard-line systems rather than hose assembly. You’ll rely on your blueprint fluency and bending expertise to hit exact machine specifications.

What a typical day looks like Review blueprints, schematics, and machine drawings to determine tubing routes and connection points.

Select steel or stainless-steel tubing, measure, cut, and prep for installation.

Execute precise hand-bending and bench-bending to achieve accurate radii and orientations.

Install and connect rigid hard-line systems for pneumatic, hydraulic, coolant, and lubrication circuits.

Collaborate with machine builders, electricians, and other skilled trades throughout equipment assembly.

Verify each run for fit, routing clarity, and overall quality; test systems and locate any leaks.

Document work as needed and uphold established safety and quality procedures.

Core responsibilities

Bend, fit, route, and install steel and stainless-steel tubing to machine specifications.

Perform hand and bench bending with consistency and repeatability.

Read and interpret prints to complete installations according to design intent.

Inspect completed work for proper fit, routing, and quality.

Work alongside cross-functional trades during equipment assembly.

Follow established safety and quality procedures at all times.

What you bring7+ years of pipe fitting or closely related skilled-trade experience.

Proficiency with steel and stainless-steel tubing, including strong hand- and bench-bending skills.

Required:

experience with rigid/hard-line tubing (hose-only backgrounds do not qualify).Background with pneumatic, hydraulic, coolant, and lubrication systems.

Ability to read and interpret blueprints, schematics, and machine drawings.

Strongly preferred: experience building or servicing CNC machine tools, special machines, robotics, or automated manufacturing equipment.

Demonstrated ability to measure, bend, fit, route, and install tubing to specification.

Experience testing piping systems and identifying leaks.

Skilled trade certification as a Pipefitter is preferred; equivalent hands-on experience considered.

Ability to mentor and provide on-the-job training to junior Pipe fitters and apprentices.