Pipefitter

About the role

The position is located in the Facility Management Service Line (FMS) at the Eastern Colorado Health Care System (ECHCS). The primary purpose of the Pipefitter is installation, testing, maintenance, and repair of facility piping and plumbing systems. Duties include work requested and performed within all ECHCS facilities, including the Denver Campus, Fitzsimmons Campus, and Community Based & Outpatient Clinics (CBOC) locations.

Position Description Title/PD#: Pipefitter/PD13118A

Responsibilities

• Installs, modifies, repairs, and maintains high temperature water and high‑pressure piping systems and equipment such as hydraulic, nitrogen, oxygen, stem‑heating, and steam‑generating systems.
• Installs and repairs items such as steam generators, vacuum, medical gas, air, water, and condensate pumps, radiators, automatic and manual valves, and flash and expansion tanks.
• Adjusts, maintains, and installs all types of plumbing and steam fixtures and their allied equipment.
• Performs various new installations of plumbing and steam equipment from laying out, ordering materials, roughing‑in to finished job.
• Repairs, maintains, adjusts, installs, and improves allied equipment for plumbing and heating, such as meters, back‑flow devices, compressors, steam traps, grease traps, strainers, reducing valves, heating coils, etc.
• Performs safety and preventative maintenance inspections of systems and equipment, including all valves and controls.
• Performs preventive maintenance with basic activity.
• Fits and installs various new hospital and laboratory equipment, including plumbing fixtures such as drinking fountains, lavatories, urinals, stools, sinks, etc.
• When not assigned to pipefitting, may be assigned to the station's steam production plant to perform duties as assigned by the Maintenance and Operations Supervisor, entailing operation of the steam plant and maintenance/repair of pumps, DAHeaters, surge tanks, boilers, and combustion control systems.
• May be called upon on very short notice to change shifts to perform the above relieve duties and, when operating the steam plant shift, is subject to call back during non‑duty hours to perform pipefitting repair.
• All other duties assigned.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Experience: A specific length of 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 demonstrating you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions on your resume. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards. Screen‑out element: Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element (usually question 1 in the online questionnaire). 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. The potential eligibles are then rated against the remainder of the Job Elements. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work