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Pipefitter
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 5 days ago
About the Role
This position is located at the Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Hospital, (578) Hines, IL - a complexity level 1a VHA facility, and organizationally aligned to the Maintenance Section - Engineering, Service Line. The work includes working with pipes and fittings from a range of high pressure to low pressure steam.
What You'll Do
- →The incumbent of this position performs the duties of a Journeyman Pipefitter as follows: Repair, adjust, maintain, and install all types of plumbing and steam fixtures and their allied equipment.
- →Perform various new installations of plumbing and steam equipment from laying out ordering materials, roughing-in to finished job.
- →Repair, maintain, adjust, install, and improve all allied equipment for plumbing and heating such as meters, valves, compressors, pumps, steam traps, grease traps, strainers, reducing valves heating coils etc.
- →Repair, install and maintain pipe insulation of fiberglass, molded magnesium, cork, and rubber.
- →Repair, test and install various types of piping systems, including water, fire main system air gas vacuum and drainage from 1/8" to 12" pipe size using copper, brass, cast iron, iron or plastic pipe with threaded, caulked, soft solder, silver solder, cemented and flanged joints.
- →Install, repair and maintain various types of equipment, such as dishwashers, kitchen equipment, sterilizers, autoclaves, hot water generators, and various other hospital equipment assigned to the Plumbing Shop.
- →Repair and maintain heating, unit heating, which includes piping, convectors, coils, shut off valves, traps and circulating pumps.
- →Perform preventive maintenance with basic activity.
- →Fit and install various new hospital and laboratory equipment, including plumbing fixtures such as drinking fountains, lavatories, urinals, stools, sinks, etc.
- →Repair, maintain and install (which may entail complete overhaul of vacuum pumps, compressed air pumps, water circulating pumps and all piping connected to these pumps.
- →Maintain a stock level of repair parts and supplies.
- →Is responsible for ordering of replacement parts and repair materials for the equipment assigned to the Plumbing Shop.
- →Maintain, repair, test and install all outside plumbing which includes sanitary sewer, water, gas, fire main and underground sprinkler systems.
- →Install and repair gas-fired equipment assigned to the Plumbing Shop, which includes solenoid valves, thermocouples, and other gas safety equipment.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Subject to background/security investigation Pre-employment physical required Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP) As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
Job ID: 45132028-0b04-4af8-ba81-b8e2df4d616a
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