Industrial Pipefitting Maintenance Journeyperson

At General Motors’ Wentzville Assembly, your craft keeps production moving. Picture your day starting with a safety huddle, then moving across the plant floor to inspect a coolant header, re-pack a valve, and blueprint a piping reroute that helps a robotic cell run smoother. Before the shift ends, you might rig and lift a pump skid, turn parts on a lathe to exact tolerances, and verify alignment on a high-speed CNC spindle. If this sounds like your kind of challenge, you’ll feel at home here.

What you will do

• Champion safety: strictly follow OSHA standards and GM procedures in every task.
• Maintain, rebuild, and replace mechanical and hydraulic components on industrial equipment, including bearings, seals, motors, generators, compressors, engines, pumps, cylinders, gears, couplings, linkages, ball screws, CNC spindles, coolant/filtration systems, and combustion assemblies/valves.
• Layout, assemble, fabricate, maintain, and repair plant piping systems for process and utilities.
• Use hand and power tools to measure, cut, thread, groove, bend, solder, assemble, join, and install pipe, valves, and fittings.
• Interpret mechanical and assembly blueprints for conveyors, material handling, robotics, and other automation.
• Operate mobile equipment such as forklifts, vertical lifts, and cranes.
• Plan safe rigging operations by determining accurate load requirements.
• Set up and run conventional and CNC machine tools (lathes, mills, grinders) to achieve specified dimensions and finishes.
• Fabricate punches, specialty tools, steel-rule tools, and T-sets to precise specifications.
• Plan fabrication steps using blueprints, sketches, or models to build tools or assemblies efficiently.
• Check finished work with precision instruments (calipers, gauge blocks, micrometers, dial indicators) to confirm tolerances and ensure defect-free parts.

Preferred experience

• Implementation of planned maintenance programs and use of predictive technologies.
• Hands-on exposure to industrial robotics, automation, and conveyance systems.

Qualifications

• Six (6) or more years of relevant Mechanical trade (Pipefitter) experience or a U.S. Department of Labor Certificate of Completion in a Mechanical trade (Pipefitter).
• Minimum age of 18.
• Willingness to work flexibly across day, afternoon, or night shifts, with overtime on short notice including weekdays, weekends, and holidays.
• Current GM employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement: please contact your local HR/LR team for placement options.

Compensation

This opening may be filled as a Journeyperson In Training (JIT) or a Journeyperson. JIT pay ranges from $37.78–$44.08; Journeyperson rate is $44.98. Final classification and pay are determined by your certificates/credentials and interview results.

Physical demands

• Respond quickly to safety instructions, alarms, and signals.
• Stand and work for extended durations; occasional seated work depending on task.
• Consistently wear required PPE and navigate a high-activity industrial setting.
• Frequent bending, twisting, kneeling, crouching, and reaching.
• Lift and carry up to 50 lbs., depending on department needs.
• Operate mobile equipment when required.

Legal and hiring notices

• Must be able to satisfactorily complete the General Motors hiring process requirements which includes **comprehensive assessments, drug testing, and a background check **
• Eligible to work in the United States
• GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU NEED OR WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP TO WORK OR TO REMAIN EMPLOYED AT GM (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.).

Build, fix, and improve the systems that power an entire assembly plant—join us in Wentzville.