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Job Description

Overview

The Pipefitter position is located at the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital in Tampa, FL, a complex and busy medical facility. The role involves installing, modifying, and repairing utilities and systems in a highly competitive environment.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate, schedule, and complete all assigned work in a timely manner.
  • Install, modify, and repair new and existing utilities, supply, and disposal systems.
  • Work from building plans, blueprints, sketches, and verbal instructions to plan and lay out systems.
  • Test and adjust systems and equipment for proper operation and compliance with VA and national Plumbing Codes.
  • Install and maintain high temperature water and high-pressure piping systems.
  • Read and interpret blueprints and specifications for sizing and installing piping systems.
  • Replace sections of pipe and repair steam traps and relief control valves.
  • Fit pipe sections using various methods including welding and soldering.
  • Trace and troubleshoot pipes and systems to locate and repair leaks.
  • Perform safety and preventative maintenance inspections.
  • Construct dust barriers for safety and protection during work.
  • Ensure job site cleanliness upon completion of work.
  • Review blueprints for compliance with codes and make recommendations for changes.
  • Create rough sketches of newly installed or modified systems.

Additional Information

  • Work Schedule: 3:00 PM - 11:30 PM
  • Location: James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, FL

Benefits

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How this job compares in Tampa, FL

Pay in context

At roughly $31/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $30/hr median for pipefitter jobs across Florida, whose middle half runs $26–$31/hr across 10 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 80% 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 Tampa, FL

We're tracking 19 other active welding openings in Tampa, FL right now, from 16 different employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 279 other active welding openings from 146 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Tampa, or widen the search to Florida.

The most active employers in Florida at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Miami, FL (23), BAE Systems (11), and Welding Shop in Tampa, FL (10). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Florida, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Miami at $35/hr, Jacksonville at $32/hr, and Orlando at $29/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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.