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Pipefitter
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 15 days ago
About the Role
This position is for the Facilities Management Service at the Seattle & American Lake campuses VA Puget Sound Health Care System (VAPSHCS).
What You'll Do
- →Duties include but are not limited to: Follows pipe-fitting work procedures that are specified in some detail for a for recurring and routine work.
- →Completes pipe-fitting work in compliance with instructions and adherence to established practices and standards Follows pipe-fitting instructions and assignments that are normally provided verbally but may occasionally be made in writing Receives, stores, identifies, issues, and maintains records of tools and materials.
- →Inventories all tools at prescribed intervals and checks bin cards frequently to assure accurate stock levels are maintained.
- →Picks up from the warehouse materials purchased for specific jobs, labels those materials to job orders, and occasionally delivers these materials to the job site.
- →Performs pipe assembly Uses tools and equipment such as tapes, rules, hacksaws, hand and power pipe threaders and cutters, packing and caulking irons, and pipe wrenches.
- →Erect protective enclosures, clean rooms, negative air machines to provide negative airflow to the work area to protect patients and staff from potential hazards of the work area Installs, replaces, or repairs various pipes and flanges.
- →Installs, replaces, or repairs various joints shut-off valves and unions.
- →Sets and adjusts die to cutter Installs, replaces, or repairs various joints, ceiling or wall radiators.
- →Eliminates water hammer in steam lines by changing pitch of branches to risers; and covering pipes with insulating material.
- →Sets and adjusts threader.
- →Covers pipes with insulating material.
- →Cuts threading lengths of pipe.
- →Measures threading lengths of pipe.
- →Work Schedule: Monday- Friday 8:00am- 4:30pm Position Description Title/PD#: Pipefitter/PD41355A Physical Requirements: Employee often works from ladders, scaffolds, and platforms where parts of systems are in hard-to-reach places.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation Selective Services Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 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 dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary 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, 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:
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