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Job Description

Overview

The Pipefitter position at the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center involves working under the supervision of the Chief of the Maintenance and Operation Section. The role includes installing, modifying, and repairing high-pressure piping systems and equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Figure pipe, joint, and valve sizes needed to support system pressures.
  • Set up and operate machine tools to manufacture or re-machine component parts.
  • Install, modify, and repair high-pressure piping systems and equipment.
  • Work from building plans, blueprints, and sketches to plan and layout piping systems.
  • Repair and maintain outside water, sewer drainage, and gas distribution systems.
  • Align pipes, valves, fittings, and joints for accurate matches.

Requirements

  • Ability to perform work from ladders, scaffolding, and in hard-to-reach places.
  • Capability to handle, lift, carry, and set up parts and equipment weighing up to 23 kilograms (50 pounds).
  • Ability to work in tiring and uncomfortable positions.
  • Ability to perform work while wearing a respirator or other breathing apparatus.

Additional Information

  • Work Schedule: Monday through Friday; 7:00am-3:30pm; subject to change based on facility needs.
  • Position Description Title/PD#: Pipefitter/PD07359A.
  • Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.
  • Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved.
  • Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.
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How this job compares in Shreveport, LA

Pay in context

At roughly $33/hr, this posting sits about 10% above the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Louisiana — toward the top of a $25–$37/hr middle band drawn from 35 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 57% 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 Shreveport, LA

Shreveport, LA is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Louisiana as a whole we're tracking 112 other active welding openings from 68 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Louisiana.

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

The most active employers in Louisiana at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are PALA Interstate (8), Worley (6), and The Shaw Group (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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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.