Austin Industries

Overview

Austin Industrial is a leading provider of maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to industrial companies across the U.S. The Boilermaker role involves constructing, assembling, maintaining, and repairing stationary steam boilers and related equipment.

Responsibilities

• Examine boilers and pressure vessels to locate defects for repair.
• Bolt or arc weld pressure vessel structures and parts together.
• Inspect assembled vessels or components for defects.
• Repair or replace defective pressure vessel parts using various tools.
• Attach rigging and signal crane operators to lift heavy sections.
• Bell, bead, or weld pressure vessel tube ends for leakproof joints.
• Lay out and mark bending and cutting lines on heavy metal.
• Install various components in water tube boilers using hand tools.
• Study blueprints to determine part locations and dimensions.
• Straighten or reshape bent pressure vessel plates or parts.
• Shape seams and joints of pressure vessel sections for fit.
• Position and align structural parts to boiler frames following blueprints.
• Locate and mark reference points for columns or plates on foundations.
• Shape or fabricate parts to adapt pressure vessels or piping.
• Clean pressure vessel equipment using scrapers and cleaning solvents.
• Install refractory bricks in fireboxes of pressure vessels.
• Assemble large vessels in an on-site fabrication shop.

Requirements

• No minimum education requirements.
• NCCER Boilermaker certification.
• Valid Driver’s License.
• TWIC Card.
• 4 years of Journeyman-level experience.
• Bundle Extractor Experience.