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Job Description

Overview

This position serves as a Pipefitter, WG-4204-10, within the Facilities Management Service, Engineering Section, at the Gainesville Division. The primary purpose is to maintain the plumbing systems throughout the facility.

Responsibilities

  • Work collaboratively to ensure all maintenance and repair tasks are completed efficiently and effectively.
  • Demonstrate a high degree of skill in the pipefitting trade, ensuring all work meets high standards of workmanship and cleanliness.
  • Prepare requests for materials and supplies necessary for completing tasks.
  • Adhere to all safety rules and regulations, ensuring a safe working environment.
  • Assist other trades within the Maintenance and Repair section on tasks assigned by the Plumbing Shop Supervisor.
  • Ensure compliance with trade standards and quality requirements.

Additional Information

  • Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm
  • Physical Requirements: Frequently works from ladders, scaffolding, and hydraulic work platforms, often in cramped and dirty locations that require physical agility and prolonged physical effort.
  • The work involves prolonged crouching, standing, stooping, bending, kneeling, climbing, and working in exhausting and uncomfortable positions.
  • Frequently lifts or carries tools, equipment, ladders, scaffolding, parts, and supplies weighing up to 50 pounds, with occasional lifting and carrying of items over 50 pounds.
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How this job compares in Gainesville, FL

Pay in context

At roughly $32/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 Gainesville, FL

Gainesville, FL is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 262 other active welding openings from 137 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Florida.

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

The most active employers in Florida at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Miami, FL (22), Honeywell Technologies (10), and Welding Shop in Orlando, FL (9). 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, Cape Canaveral at $32/hr, and Jacksonville at $32/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.