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Job Description

Overview

The Pipefitter position involves performing Journeyman-level duties in the Maintenance & Operations Section at the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington. The role requires the ability to work independently on plumbing tasks and involves installing, modifying, and repairing high-pressure piping systems and related equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Installs, modifies, and repairs high-pressure piping systems and equipment.
  • Figures pressures and fixture units within a system.
  • Works from building plans, blueprints, and sketches to plan and lay out piping systems.
  • Plans and completes the routing and placement of systems leading to equipment.
  • Joins, seals, and tests systems and equipment for proper pressures and leak-free joints.
  • Assembles, installs, tests, maintains, and repairs water, drainage, and waste disposal systems.
  • Cuts, bends, threads, and assembles water and drainage pipe fittings.
  • Installs water valves, traps, and similar devices.
  • Cleans out grease traps and adjusts various valves.
  • Determines applicable state plumbing code requirements.
  • Maintains and records data in logbook and computer work order databases.

Additional Information

  • Work Schedule: Monday-Friday; 8:00am-4:30pm
  • Position Description Title/PD#: Pipefitter/PD706340
  • Incumbent must stand a large part of the day, climb ladders, and work in various positions.
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How this job compares in Spokane, WA

Pay in context

At roughly $33/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Washington, whose middle half runs $28–$35/hr across 67 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 69% 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 Spokane, WA

Spokane, WA is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Washington as a whole we're tracking 86 other active welding openings from 61 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Washington.

The most active employers in Washington at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Seattle, WA (8), Parker Hannifin (5), and Sierra Pacific Industries (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Washington, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Seattle at $35/hr and Bellingham at $31/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.