Pipe Fitter

Key functions
To make up sections of high and/or low-pressure piping systems ready for installation

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• To ascertain job requirements from drawings or other specifications.
• To select length of stainless steel, steel alloy, iron, copper, aluminium or plastic piping and to cut it to the required size with hacksaw, pipe cutter or machine.
• To prepare and position pipework and flanges for subsequent welding, alignment orientation, gaps, spacing, straightness whilst welding and arc welding.
• To bend piping by machine or heat with blow lamp and bend by hand
• To join metal piping by soldering or thread cutting and screwing.
• To join plastic piping by cementing or fusing by hot air welding
• To form piping from sheet metal