Overview
Austin Industrial is a leading provider of maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to industrial companies across the U.S. The Boilermaker position involves constructing, assembling, maintaining, and repairing stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries.
Responsibilities
- Examine boilers, pressure vessels, tanks, or vats to locate defects.
- Bolt or arc weld pressure vessel structures and parts together.
- Inspect assembled vessels or individual components for defects.
- Repair or replace defective pressure vessel parts using various tools.
- Attach rigging and signal crane or hoist operators for lifting.
- Bell, bead, or weld pressure vessel tube ends for leakproof joints.
- Lay out plate, sheet steel, or other heavy metal and mark bending and cutting lines.
- Install manholes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges, or feedwater connections.
- Study blueprints to determine locations and dimensions of parts.
- Straighten or reshape bent pressure vessel plates or parts.
- Shape seams, joints, or irregular edges of pressure vessel sections.
- Position, align, and secure structural parts to boiler frames.
- Locate and mark reference points for columns or plates on boiler foundations.
- Shape or fabricate parts to adapt pressure vessels or piping.
- Clean pressure vessel equipment using scrapers and cleaning solvents.
- Install refractory bricks or other heat-resistant materials.
- Assemble large vessels in an on-site fabrication shop.
Requirements
- No minimum education requirements.
- 4 years of Journeyman-level experience.
- NCCER certification.
- Valid Driver's License.
- TWIC Card.
Additional Information
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States.
- Austin Industries is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa.