Job Description

Overview

CGL Facility Management, LLC provides comprehensive contract facility maintenance services to commercial clients, and this Welder position involves preventive and corrective welding, plumbing maintenance work, and minimal installations.

Responsibilities

  • Repairs, maintains, and installs plumbing fixtures and appliances such as sinks, shower baths, commodes, drinking fountains, and gas hot water heaters.
  • Inspects, operates, services, and repairs all plumbing and steam systems for clients.
  • Installs, modifies, repairs, and maintains low and medium pressure steam and condensate systems.
  • Maintains and repairs both fired and unfired steam and hot water heating equipment.
  • Follows technical manuals, codes, diagrams, and plans work procedures to make repairs.
  • Plans new installations, alterations to existing installations, and major repairs.
  • Assembles and installs a variety of metal and nonmetal pipe and pipe fittings.
  • Joins piping by means of threaded, caulked, wiped, soldered, brazed, fused, or cemented joints.
  • Operates electrical and welding equipment, and may cut steel using a plasma cutter or torch.
  • Inspects completed work for conformance with local building and safety codes.
  • Maintains a clean and safe workplace while performing maintenance tasks.
  • Enters work orders into the CMMS system as required by CGL policy.
  • May be assigned tasks outside usual Welder tasks.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED required.
  • Associate's Degree or successful completion of a trades certification or apprenticeship program as a journeyman pipefitter or steamfitter preferred.
  • 1-3 years experience as a journeyman or sub journeyman level steam or pipefitter in a commercial maintenance environment preferred.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to complete electric and gas welding of pipe and mild steel plate.
  • Ability to read and decipher blueprints and as-built construction documents.
  • Must provide outstanding customer service to meet the needs of clients.
  • Valid Driver's License required.
  • Certified Welder - ASME-1X required.

Benefits

  • PTO
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental

Additional Information

  • Position requires driving for the Company using either a Company vehicle or a Personal or Rental vehicle.

Benefits

PTO
Health Insurance
Dental

How this job compares in Waverly, VA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs across Virginia currently run a median of $29/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $26–$36/hr across 113 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Waverly, VA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Waverly, VA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Virginia as a whole we're tracking 171 other active welding openings from 117 employers. Browse welding jobs across Virginia.

The most active employers in Virginia at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are HII (6), Colonna's Shipyard (6), and Mission Technologies, a division of HII (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Virginia, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Newport News at $41/hr, Portsmouth at $37/hr, and Norfolk at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • ASME Section IXthe ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code qualification. It covers welding on pressure-retaining equipment — boilers, vessels, and process piping — where a failed weld is a safety incident rather than a rework ticket.

Read straight from this posting's text. Confirm the exact qualification the employer wants before you test — requirements vary by shop even under the same code.

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