Plumber Jobs in Chesterville, Maine
1 Plumber job hiring now in Chesterville, Maine — verified TradeHire employers plus openings sourced from around the web.
Plumber work in Chesterville, Maine
Plumbers install and repair water supply, drain, waste and vent piping, fixtures, water heaters and the piping that serves them. Chesterville is in Franklin County, whose county seat is Farmington and whose population was 29,456 in 2020. TradeHire shows postings at county level, so this page lists every plumber opening in Franklin County, not only those in Chesterville itself.
22.9% of the housing units in Franklin County were built before 1950 and the median home was built in 1978 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates). Older buildings mean galvanized and cast-iron piping reaching the end of its life, and Maine winters make frozen-pipe repairs and well-and-septic work a regular part of the job outside the sewered towns.
- Sugarloaf, the ski mountain in Carrabassett Valley, is the county's highest point.
- Franklin Hospital (MaineHealth) is in Farmington, the county seat.
- The University of Maine at Farmington is in the county seat.
What plumber work pays around Chesterville
The 1 verified TradeHire posting on this page offers from $52.50 up to $58.50 an hour, as entered by the employers.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (May 2025 estimates) counts plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters in the Southwest Maine nonmetropolitan area area at 390 jobs with a median wage of $30.09 an hour; statewide 2,710 jobs, a $30.77 median, and a range of $23.13 (10th percentile) to $38.83 (90th percentile). Check your own number with the trade wage calculator.
Licenses employers ask for
- The Plumbers' Examining Board licenses Master, Journeyman, Trainee and Journeyman-in-Training plumbers; a trainee license requires only a completed application.
- Journeyman-in-Training requires a one-year (2-semester) plumbing course at a board-approved community college or a two-year career and technical education plumbing course, and a score of 70% or higher on the journeyman exam.