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Pipefitter
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 35 days ago
About the Role
Incumbent will be assigned to the HVAC shop at the Stratton VA Medical Center, Albany, New York. Work consists of installing, modifying, repairing and maintaining new and existing HVAC piping systems and equipment such as steam heating, refrigeration, circulating pumps, motors, condensers, and evaporator coils.
What You'll Do
- →Duties may include, but are not limited to: Maintain & modify facility wide refrigeration and piping systems.
- →Repair, Maintain, Modify & Install new and existing utility, refrigeration piping systems.
- →Knowledge of various piping systems containing refrigerants and the refrigeration cycle in a variety of applications to locate faults in equipment such as walk in coolers, chillers, split systems, window air conditioners, freezers, heat pumps, roof top units and other related refrigeration systems.
- →Install new piping systems for facility wide HVAC refrigeration, heating, and ventilation systems.
- →Installs equipment by completing the routing and placement of systems leading to the equipment, and seating, hooking up, and testing the equipment.
- →Maintain & modify facility wide piping systems.
- →Complete repairs in confined areas in and around air handlers, pipes, pumps, motors, and refrigeration machinery.
- →Reads and interprets blueprints, layout sketches, manufacturers' literature and specifications for sizing, estimating, installing and repairing new or existing piping systems.
- →Cuts, threads, and connects pipes by means of union, flanges, and sweating.
- →Fits pipe sections by screwing, bolting, brazing, welding, gluing, fusing, soldering, and caulking connections by forcing oakum and molten lead into joints.
- →Trace and troubleshoot pipelines, systems and equipment to locate and repair leaks and trouble spots Perform safety and preventive maintenance inspections of systems and equipment.
- →Work Schedule: Full-Time, 8:00am to 4:30pm, Monday - Friday, Position Description Title/PD#: Pipefitter/PD21I43A Physical Requirements: The incumbent is required to work in confined areas in and around HVAC Piping/Air Handler units, steam piping, refrigeration piping.
- →The work requires moderate to strenuous efforts and long periods of walking, climbing, crouching and bending.
- →Physical effort may include squeezing into and crawling through tight spaces for a limited amount of time.
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 All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓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
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