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Overview

The Pipefitter at the Robley Rex VA is responsible for installing, troubleshooting, testing, repairing, modifying, and maintaining various plumbing and piping systems in a medical facility and industrial laundry. The role involves both independent work and collaboration with a team of specialists.

Responsibilities

  • Layout, install, test, adjust, and maintain several types of piping systems and allied equipment.
  • Perform new installations of plumbing and steam equipment from laying-out to finishing work.
  • Conduct preventive and corrective maintenance on a variety of piping systems and allied equipment.
  • Install and maintain pipe insulation of various materials.
  • Install, repair, and maintain complex hospital equipment such as dishwashers and steam sterilizers.
  • Install, repair, and maintain HVAC plumbing equipment.
  • Fit, install, and maintain hospital plumbing and laboratory fixtures.
  • Provide support for automatic fixtures including routine flushing and battery replacement.
  • Install, test, and repair life support and life safety systems using various piping materials.
  • Maintain shop inventory of bench stock and order materials for jobs.
  • Install firestop when necessary according to prescribed methods.
  • Understand how work supports VA's mission and participate in performance management.

Additional Information

  • Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 0800-1630
  • Recruitment/Relocation Incentive: May be Authorized.
  • Physical Requirements: Daily handles objects weighing up to 45 pounds and occasionally carries heavier objects.

Benefits

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How this job compares in Louisville, KY

Pay in context

At roughly $34/hr, this posting sits about 26% above the $27/hr median for welding jobs across Kentucky — toward the top of a $25–$36/hr middle band drawn from 13 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 69% 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 Louisville, KY

Louisville, KY currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Kentucky as a whole we're tracking 21 other active welding openings from 16 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Louisville, or widen the search to Kentucky.

The most active employers in Kentucky at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SU Solutions (3), Michelin (2), and Hendrickson (2). 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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