About This Role
This pipefitter position at the Robley Rex VA involves installing, troubleshooting, testing, repairing, modifying, and maintaining a wide array of plumbing and piping systems. The work supports waste, drain, and vent systems, hot and cold potable water, HVAC, pneumatics, medical air and gases, hydraulics, natural gas, steam, and condensate systems. These systems are commonly found in medical facilities and modern industrial laundries.
Responsibilities
- Layout, install, test, adjust, and maintain several types of piping systems and allied equipment such as pumps, heat exchangers, and chemical feed systems
- Perform new installations of plumbing and steam equipment, including laying out, ordering materials, roughing-in, and finishing work
- Perform preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance on a variety of piping systems and allied equipment such as compressors, vacuum pumps, strainers, grease traps, steam traps, meters, and regulating valves
- Install and maintain pipe insulation of various materials, including rubber and fiberglass
- Install, repair, and maintain complex equipment such as dishwashers, steam sterilizers, hot water heaters and converters, and other designated hospital equipment
- Install, repair, and maintain HVAC plumbing equipment such as heat exchangers, coils, steam traps, and regulating valves
- Fit, install, and maintain hospital plumbing and laboratory equipment, including fixtures such as drinking fountains, lavatories, urinals, and sinks, in accordance with prescribed methods and ADA requirements
- Provide support for automatic fixtures, including routine flushing and battery replacement
- Install, test, and repair life support and life safety systems such as medical gas, medical air, dental air, medical vacuum, natural gas, and fire suppression systems
- Utilize a variety of piping materials such as copper, brass, cast iron, steel, PVC, and various fastening methods including threading, soldering, brazing, welding, crimping, PVC cement, and Victaulic
- Maintain shop inventory of bench stock, including ordering materials for jobs and bench stock replacement
- Install firestop when necessary in accordance with prescribed UL methods
- Develop an understanding of how work supports VA's mission
- Carry out instructions, as defined by the supervisor, to achieve organizational goals
- Participate in the performance management process
Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship (non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy)
- Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation
- Selective Services Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
- Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process
