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Overview

NYU Langone Health is a leading health system recognized for its quality patient outcomes and comprehensive medical services. The Plumber Mechanic role involves performing plumbing duties, including installation, repair, and maintenance of plumbing and gas systems.

Responsibilities

  • Inspect, install, repair, and replace pipes, fittings, and plumbing fixtures.
  • Maintain steam and gas systems and plumbing systems of the plant.
  • Inspect connections and parts of the system for leaks.
  • Replace defective pipes by cutting, bending, threading, and assembling.
  • Solder, braze, and caulk leaks and broken pipes.
  • Open clogged drains using plumbing tools.
  • Repair or replace damaged plumbing fixtures.
  • Troubleshoot and install steam systems and connections.
  • Maintain plumbing natural and medical gas systems.
  • Troubleshoot and repair medical gas outlets.
  • Operate various plumbing tools and machinery.
  • Maintain job completion records and submit work orders.
  • Estimate materials needed and record time on work orders.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma required.
  • Five years of experience in plumbing.
  • Trade or vocational school graduation reduces experience requirement to four years.
  • Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in New York, NY

Pay in context

At roughly $50/hr, this posting sits about 22% above the $41/hr median for welding jobs in New York, NY — toward the top of a $36–$49/hr middle band drawn from 29 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 83% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in New York, NY

We're tracking 47 other active welding openings in New York, NY right now, from 31 different employers. 27 of them were added in the last week. Across New York as a whole we're tracking 146 other active welding openings from 94 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in New York, or widen the search to New York.

NYU Langone Health currently has 2 other openings live in New York, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in New York at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in New York, NY (21), Cushman & Wakefield (5), and Con Edison (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within New York, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are New York at $41/hr and Brooklyn at $30/hr. New York is among them.

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