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Job Description

Overview

The VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System is seeking a Pipefitter to work within Engineering Service, responsible for troubleshooting, installing, modifying, and repairing high-pressure piping systems and associated equipment.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoot, install, modify, and repair high-pressure piping systems and equipment.
  • Work from building plans, blueprints, and sketches to plan and lay out system routing and operation.
  • Install, modify, and repair systems by locating and tapping main lines and determining necessary valves and traps.
  • Complete the routing and placement of systems leading to equipment and test for proper operation.
  • Plan and lay out installations and modifications of various systems and equipment.
  • Utilize tools and equipment such as plumb bobs, gauges, and pipe wrenches.
  • Perform repairs and installations safely in hard-to-reach areas.

Additional Information

  • Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 3:00 pm to 11:30 pm
  • Physical Requirements: Must be able to work from ladders, scaffolding, and in confined spaces.
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How this job compares in Cleveland, OH

Pay in context

At roughly $37/hr, this posting sits about 44% 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 92% 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 Cleveland, OH

Cleveland, OH currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Ohio as a whole we're tracking 104 other active welding openings from 68 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Cleveland, or widen the search to 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.

Similar openings near Cleveland, OH

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.