Pipefitter

About the role

This position is located at the VA Oklahoma City Health Care System in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and serves under the supervision of the Construction Foreman and Construction Supervisor of Engineering Service. The supervisor assigns work of various scopes depending on the magnitude and urgency of the job's completion.

Responsibilities

• Properly braces and supports to control movement and vibration.
• Troubleshoots, traces and eliminates unusually difficult problems.
• Troubleshoots for repairs of various piping systems and equipment.
• Accurate measurement and calculation are essential for cutting, threading, and bending pipes.
• Accurate in determining angles, tolerances, and proper pipe alignment to ensure leak-free, safe installation.
• Validates and compares actual vs. design dimensions.
• Proficient at following strict protocols when working with flammable, toxic or high pressure media.
• Performs pipefitting/plumbing trade methods and techniques.
• Proficient at brazing joints.
• Installs and modifies piping and fitting for plumbing water systems, sewage waste chemical systems, medical gas and vacuum systems, fire sprinkler systems and conditioned air systems.
• Installs pressure relief valves, checks valves, pressure regulators, expansion joints, steam traps, and other pressure supporting and controlling devices.
• Plans, sets up, installs, and performs complex modifications to low and high-pressure piping.
• Uses a wide variety of tools to install, repair and maintain piping systems.
• Uses and maintains tools for soldering and brazing pipe.
• Uses tools such as dividers, chalk lines, plumbing tools, templates, core drillers, grinders, hand and power pipe threading machines.
• Works inside and outside (heat, cold, under and outside of building).
• Handles heavy materials and parts weighing in excess of 45 pounds.
• Pulls, pushes, reaches, walks, stands, crawls, kneels, bends, and climbs for sustained periods of time.
• Exposes to dangerous conditions such as strains, cuts, bruises, and burns.

Physical Requirements

• Frequent handling of heavy materials and parts weighing in excess of 45 pounds.
• Requires frequent pulling, pushing, reaching, walking, standing, crawling, kneeling, bending, and climbing for sustained periods of time.
• Physical effort is often strenuous and is typical of industrial construction trades.
• Exposure to dirty, noisy, and odorous producing conditions.

Qualifications

• To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
• Experience: Specific training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstrates you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume.
• Selective Placement Factors (SPF): Plumbing contractor or journeyman license from a state agency, Medical gas installer's license and brazing certification from an accredited program, 8 hours of documented asbestos abatement training, 3 years of pipefitting/plumbing experience in a hospital environment.
• Screen-out Element: Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Those applicants who appear to possess at least the minimal acceptable qualification requirement are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated.