Veterans Health Administration

Overview

This position is located at the VA Oklahoma City Health Care System in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and serves under the supervision of the Construction Foreman and Construction Supervisor of Engineering Service. The supervisor assigns work of various scopes depending on the magnitude and urgency of the job's completion.

Responsibilities

• Reads and comprehends blueprints and sketches.
• Interprets building plans.
• Reads and interprets technical manuals.
• Properly braces and supports to control movement and vibration.
• Troubleshoots, traces and eliminates unusually difficult problems.
• Troubleshoots for repairs of various piping systems and equipment.
• Accurate measurement and calculation are essential for cutting, threading, and bending pipes.
• Accurate in determining angles, tolerances, and proper pipe alignment to ensure leak-free, safe installation.
• Ability to validate and compare actual vs. design dimensions.
• Proficient at following strict protocols when working with flammable, toxic or high pressure media.
• Performs pipefitting/plumbing trade methods and techniques.
• Proficient at brazing joints.
• Installs and modifies piping and fitting for plumbing water systems, sewage waste chemical systems, medical gas and vacuum systems, fire sprinkler systems and conditioned air systems.
• Installs pressure relief valves, checks valves, pressure regulators, expansion joints, steam traps, and other pressure supporting and controlling devices.
• Plans, sets up, installs, and performs complex modifications to low and high-pressure piping.
• Uses a wide variety of tools to install, repair and maintain piping systems.
• Uses and maintains tools for soldering and brazing pipe.
• Uses tools such as dividers, chalk lines, plumbing tools, templates, core drillers, grinders hand and power pipe threading machines.

Additional Information

• Work Schedule: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM
• Physical Requirements: The work requires frequently handling heavy materials and parts weighing in excess of 45 pounds.
• The work also requires pulling, pushing, reaching, walking, standing, crawling, kneeling, bending, and climbing for sustained periods of time.
• Physical effort is often strenuous and is typical of industrial construction trades.
• Working Conditions Requirements: Work is performed inside and outside (heat, cold, under and outside of building).
• Installations, inspections and repairs are made under dirty, noisy, and odorous producing conditions.
• He/she is frequently exposed to the danger of strains, cuts, bruises, and burns.