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Overview

The Pipefitter position at the Kansas City VA Medical Center involves providing journeyman-level pipefitting services, including the installation, modification, and repair of various pressure piping systems. The role requires reading blueprints and ensuring compliance with safety and code standards.

Responsibilities

  • Installs, modifies, and repairs new and existing pressure piping systems for steam, heating, and related equipment.
  • Reads and follows blueprints, sketches, and building plans for planning and laying out piping systems.
  • Sizes and determines proper pitch, elevation, and placement of piping to ensure correct operation.
  • Routes piping installations and ensures mechanical correctness by selecting proper materials.
  • Joins, seals, and tests all piping joints for leak-free performance.
  • Uses hand and power tools of the pipefitter trade to complete installation and repair work.
  • Ensures all work complies with VA standards, safety requirements, and established trade practices.

Requirements

  • Ability to diagnose system issues and perform corrective actions.
  • Knowledgeable in OSHA and VA safety requirements and lockout/tagout procedures.
  • Extensive experience in commercial and industrial pipefitting, including installation, maintenance, and repair of complex piping systems.

Additional Information

  • Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:00am-3:30pm
  • Compressed Work Schedule may be eligible with supervisory approval.
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How this job compares in Kansas City, MO

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting sits about 23% above the $31/hr median for welding jobs in Kansas City, MO — toward the top of a $24–$38/hr middle band drawn from 12 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 75% 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 Kansas City, MO

We're tracking 12 other active welding openings in Kansas City, MO right now, from 6 different employers. 4 of them were added in the last week. Across Missouri as a whole we're tracking 80 other active welding openings from 56 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Kansas City, or widen the search to Missouri.

Veterans Health Administration currently has 3 other openings live in Missouri, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Missouri at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (5), Leonardo DRS (4), and Bass Pro Shops (4). 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.