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Job Description

Overview

The Pipefitter position is located in the Facilities Maintenance Section of Engineering Service in West Los Angeles, California. The role involves performing duties at the journeyman level, focusing on the maintenance and operations of plumbing systems.

Responsibilities

  • Repairs plumbing systems by installing, modifying, and repairing utility, supply, and disposal systems.
  • Works from building plans, blueprints, and sketches to plan and lay out system routing and placement.
  • Uses various tools and equipment for installation and repair tasks.
  • Installs equipment by completing the routing and placement of systems leading to the equipment.
  • Tests systems and equipment for proper operation, circulation, flow, pressure, and leak-free joints.
  • Fits pipe sections using various methods such as screwing, bolting, brazing, welding, gluing, fusing, and soldering.
  • Traces and troubleshoots pipe lines, systems, and equipment to locate and repair leaks.
  • Performs safety and preventive maintenance inspections of systems and equipment.
  • Performs other related duties as assigned.

Additional Information

  • Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. - 03:30 p.m. or 03:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.
  • Physical requirements include making repairs from ladders and scaffolding, and handling equipment weighing up to 50 pounds.
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How this job compares in Los Angeles, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $37/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $40/hr median for welding jobs in Los Angeles, CA, whose middle half runs $28–$58/hr across 36 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 47% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Los Angeles, CA

We're tracking 51 other active welding openings in Los Angeles, CA right now, from 37 different employers. 6 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 459 other active welding openings from 225 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Los Angeles, or widen the search to California.

Veterans Health Administration currently has 1 other opening live in California, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (25), Aerotek (18), and Honeywell Aerospace (14). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within California, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Long Beach at $43/hr, Torrance at $43/hr, and Los Angeles at $40/hr. Los Angeles is among them.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Pipefitter figures were last recalculated when this page was built.