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Job Description

Overview

The Pipefitter position at Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System involves installing and repairing various piping systems and equipment at a large VA Medical Center. This facility is affiliated with a medical college and spans two campuses with extensive physical plants and equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Installs and repairs valves, fittings, traps, fixtures, drains, and other equipment.
  • Works from building plans, blueprints, sketches, and oral orders to plan and lay out piping systems.
  • Maintains therapeutic swimming pool equipment, ensuring proper heating and circulation.
  • Joins, seals, and tests systems and equipment for proper pressure and leak-free operation.

Additional Information

  • Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday-Thursday 6:00am - 4:00pm (subject to change).
  • Physical requirements include working from ladders, scaffolding, and in hard-to-reach places.
  • Working conditions may involve dirty, dusty, and greasy environments.
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How this job compares in North Little Rock, AR

Pay in context

At roughly $32/hr, this posting sits about 22% above the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Arkansas — toward the top of a $20–$29/hr middle band drawn from 23 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 87% 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 North Little Rock, AR

North Little Rock, AR is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Arkansas as a whole we're tracking 42 other active welding openings from 36 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Arkansas.

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

The most active employers in Arkansas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Aerotek (3), Systems, LLC. (3), and L&L Metal Fabrication (2). 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.