Location: US-MD-Indian Head Job ID: 2018-1860 # of Openings: 2 Category: Skilled Trades Phone Number: (757) 502-4101 Phone Extension: 102 Overview SJS Executives is searching for experienced pipe-fitters. Our ideal candidate will have knowledge of how relief valves, check valves, pressure regulators, and other pressure supporting and controlling devices are installed and how they operate to control increases and decreases in pressure, flow, circulation, and expansion in the systems. The candidate will also be skilled in figuring pipe, joint, and valve sizes needed to support pressures of systems, as well as the use of tools and equipment such as sliding squares, measuring tapes, dividers, chalk lines, plumb bobs, templates and other tools associated with this position. Responsibilities Installs, modifies, and repairs new and existing high-pressure piping systems and equipment such as: steam-heating, steam generation, and hydraulic systems, steam generators, flash and expansion, tanks, condensate, vacuum, and circulating pumps, and radiators. Works from building plans, blueprints, and sketches to plan and lay out the routing, placement, pitch, elevation, pressure reduction, expansion, and operation of various piping systems and equipment. Installs, modifies, and repairs systems like those described above by setting up system routes, placing and cutting route openings, placing hangers for proper pitch and elevation, and determining and installing such things as risers, flexible branches, expansion joints, pumps, gauges, and pressure regulators in the combination needed to support the pressures of the systems and that ensure the proper operation of the systems Knowledge of how relief valves, check valves, pressure regulators, expansion joints, and other pressure supporting and controlling devices are installed and how they operate to control increases and decreases in pressure, flow, circulation, and expansion in the systems Plans and lays out the installation, modification, and repair of various new and existing piping systems and equipment determine the placement and elevation and install steam generators, vacuum and condensate pumps, and radiators replace heat exchangers, flash and expansion tanks, and automatic and manual control valves Qualifications US Citizen - Proof of US Citizen is required Valid State Drivers License Ability to gain base access 4 or more years of experience Ability to handle, lift, carry, and set up parts and equipment that weigh up to 50 pounds. Occasionally, may lift and carry items that weigh over 50 pounds PM18 PI107125381