Job Description

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 to identify defects.
  • Repair or replace defective pressure vessel parts using various tools.
  • Attach rigging and signal crane operators to lift heavy sections.
  • Weld pressure vessel tube ends to ensure 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 using tools.
  • Shape seams and joints of pressure vessel sections for fit.
  • Position and align structural parts to boiler frames following blueprints.
  • Mark reference points for columns or plates on boiler foundations.
  • Fabricate parts to adapt pressure vessels or piping using machinery.
  • Clean pressure vessel equipment using scrapers and solvents.
  • Install refractory materials in fireboxes of pressure vessels.
  • Assemble large vessels in an on-site shop for proper fit.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

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 U.S.
  • Austin Industrial is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.
  • Employees must be able to perform physical tasks including lifting up to 50 pounds.

How this job compares in Pasadena, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Pasadena, TX currently run a median of $40/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $35–$82/hr across 16 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Pasadena, TX

We're tracking 47 other active welding openings in Pasadena, TX right now, from 30 different employers. 13 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,339 other active welding openings from 721 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Pasadena, or widen the search to Texas.

Austin Industries currently has 15 other openings live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Houston, TX (27), Zachry Group (22), and Welding Shop in Austin, TX (16). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Pasadena at $40/hr, Arlington at $39/hr, and Midlothian at $38/hr. Pasadena is among them.

Similar openings near Pasadena, TX

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Boilermaker - Austin Industrial (Pasadena, TX) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.