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Pipefitter
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
This position serves as a Pipefitter within the Facility Management Service Center of the Hudson Valley VA Medical Center, located in Montrose, New York. The primary functions include working with pipes and fittings from a range of high pressure to low pressure steam.
What You'll Do
- →Duties may include, but are not limited to: Layout pipe, thread, rough-in and finish bathroom, rough-in and finish kitchen.
- →Conducts minor welding repairs and fabrication requiring the use of oxygen, acetylene, arc welding, and pipe welding.
- →Inspects, adjusts, cleans, and repairs plumbing fixtures and systems, steam operated equipment, heating and water systems, waste lines, kitchen and laundry equipment, air compressors, medical compressed air systems, vacuum systems, oxygen systems, and natural gas distribution systems.
- →Reads and interprets blueprints and manufacturers' specifications for installing and repairing equipment.
- →Conducts safety and preventive maintenance inspections of utility systems and equipment in accordance with VA regulations and National Codes.
- →Interprets and apply building plans and blueprints to layout angles, arcs, and circles.
- →Utilizes tools and equipment such as sliding squares, measuring tapes, dividers, and chalk lines.
- →Performs other related duties as assigned.
- →Work Schedule: Full-Time, 8:00am to 4:30pm, Monday - Friday, Position Description Title/PD#: Pipefitter/PD09057A Physical Requirements: The Pipefitter will make repairs and installations from ladders, scaffolding and platforms, and where the systems and equipment worked on are in hard-to-reach places.
- →This includes standing, stooping, bending, kneeling, climbing and working in tiring and uncomfortable positions.
- →Frequently handle, lift, carry and set up parts and equipment that weigh up to 50 pounds.
- →Occasionally items may weigh more than 50 pounds.
- →Work is done inside and outside, and is usually dirty, dusty, greasy, and smelly.
- →There is frequent exposure to the possibility of uncomfortable heat conditions.
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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