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Job Description

Overview

This position is located in the Facilities Maintenance Section of Engineering Service in West Los Angeles, California. The incumbent performs duties at the journeyman Pipefitter level in the Maintenance and Operations Section of Engineering Service.

Responsibilities

  • Repairs plumbing systems.
  • Installs, modifies, and repairs new and existing utility, supply, and disposal systems.
  • Works from building plans, blueprints, and sketches to plan and lay out the routing and placement of systems and equipment.
  • Uses tools and equipment such as plumb bobs, mercury gauges, dividers, closet augers, sewer snakes, high pressure jitters, and hydrostatic pumps.
  • Installs equipment by completing the routing and placement of systems leading to the equipment and testing the equipment.
  • Installs and repairs items such as steam generators, vacuum, air, water, and condensate pumps, radiators, automatic and manual valves, and flash and expansion tanks.
  • Determines and installs risers, flexible branches, expansion joints, pumps, gauges, and pressure regulators.
  • Reads and interprets blueprints, layout sketches, manufacturers' literature, and specifications.
  • Tests systems and equipment for proper operation, circulation, flow, pressure, and leak-free joints.
  • Fits pipe sections by screwing, bolting, brazing, welding, gluing, fusing, and soldering.
  • Traces and troubleshoots pipe lines, systems, and equipment to locate and repair leaks and trouble spots.
  • Performs safety and preventive maintenance inspections of systems and equipment.
  • Performs other related duties as assigned.

Additional Information

  • Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 7:30 am - 4:00 pm.
  • Physical requirements include making repairs and installations from ladders, scaffolding, and platforms.
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How this job compares in Los Angeles, CA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Los Angeles, CA currently run a median of $51/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $37–$69/hr across 56 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Los Angeles, CA

We're tracking 100 other active welding openings in Los Angeles, CA right now, from 50 different employers. 33 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 505 other active welding openings from 240 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Los Angeles, or widen the search to California.

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs currently has 1 other opening live in California, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (37), Relativity Space (18), and Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (13). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within California, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are El Segundo at $53/hr, Los Angeles at $51/hr, and Pasadena at $50/hr. Los Angeles is among them.

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