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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 match.

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
  • Physical Requirements: Ability to work in hard-to-reach places and lift up to 50 pounds.
  • Working Conditions: Exposure to dirty, dusty, greasy environments and potential hazards.
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How this job compares in Shreveport, LA

Pay in context

At roughly $33/hr, this posting sits about 14% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Louisiana — toward the top of a $25–$34/hr middle band drawn from 27 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 70% 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 currently has 3 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Louisiana as a whole we're tracking 85 other active welding openings from 54 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Shreveport, or widen the search to 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 (7), GrayWolf (5), and Worley (5). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Similar openings near Shreveport, LA

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.