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Job Description

Overview

The Pipefitter position at the Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center involves maintaining, operating, and repairing plumbing and steam systems under the supervision of the Maintenance Foreman. This role is critical for ensuring the safe and uninterrupted use of these complex systems throughout the facility.

Responsibilities

  • Installs, modifies, maintains, repairs, and performs preventative maintenance on high pressure piping including steam distribution and heating systems.
  • Installs pipe insulation, condensate collection tanks and pumps, hot water heating devices, circulating pumps, radiators, pressure reducing valves, strainers, fire suppression systems, backflow preventors, and steam traps.
  • Installs, modifies, maintains, repairs, and performs preventive maintenance on plumbing systems including domestic water systems, drainage waste and vent systems, and various plumbing fixtures.
  • Reads and interprets engineering drawings, sets up pipe routing, and determines placement and elevation of various components.
  • Uses a government vehicle to travel between the main campus and neighboring facilities.

Requirements

  • Must be in satisfactory physical and mental condition and fit for duty at all times.
  • Ability to work from ladders, scaffolding, and hydraulic platforms.
  • Experience working in cramped, dirty, and hard-to-reach locations.
  • Ability to lift or carry tools and equipment up to 50 pounds, and occasionally over 80 pounds.

Additional Information

  • Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; 7:00 am - 3:30 pm, 7:30 am - 4:00 pm.
  • May be required to work overtime and subject to after-hours call back in emergencies.
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How this job compares in Coatesville, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $34/hr, this posting sits about 19% above the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Pennsylvania — toward the top of a $24–$35/hr middle band drawn from 124 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 71% 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 Coatesville, PA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Coatesville, PA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 257 other active welding openings from 168 employers. Browse welding jobs across Pennsylvania.

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

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) (7), Crash Champions (6), and TradeWorx (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $37/hr and York at $25/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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