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Job Description

Overview

This position is in the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) at the Chillicothe VA Medical Center, specifically within the Pipe Shop of Facilities Management Service (FMS). The role focuses on pipefitting and plumbing duties for the repair and maintenance of building piping systems.

Responsibilities

  • Install, maintain, modify, and repair high- and low-pressure steam and condensate piping systems.
  • Work on water steam and condensate distribution systems and plumbing systems.
  • Repair and maintain equipment such as steam heating systems, steam generators, and domestic hot water heaters.
  • Perform miscellaneous welding repairs using electric arc welding and oxy-acetylene equipment.
  • Plan and lay out routing, placement, pitch, elevation, and operation of various piping systems.
  • Operate emergency repair truck at CBOC's and clinics as needed.
  • Install and repair heat exchangers, flash and expansion tanks, and control valves.
  • Interpret building plans and blueprints to use shop mathematics for layout.

Additional Information

  • Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 6:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
  • Compressed/Flexible Schedule: Available at the discretion of the agency.
  • Position Description Title/PD#: Pipefitter/PD93668A
  • Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved
  • Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
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How this job compares in Chillicothe, OH

Pay in context

At roughly $34/hr, this posting sits about 31% above the $26/hr median for welding jobs across Ohio — toward the top of a $24–$30/hr middle band drawn from 48 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 88% 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 Chillicothe, OH

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Chillicothe, OH, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Ohio as a whole we're tracking 104 other active welding openings from 68 employers. Browse welding jobs across Ohio.

Veterans Health Administration currently has 2 other openings live in Ohio, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Ohio at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are TP Mechanical (8), Welding Shop in Columbus, OH (4), and Component Repair Technologies (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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