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 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 heavy lifting.
• Bell, bead with power hammers, or weld pressure vessel tube ends.
• Lay out plate, sheet steel, or other heavy metal for bending and cutting.
• Install manholes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges, or connections.
• Study blueprints to determine locations and dimensions of parts.
• Straighten or reshape bent pressure vessel plates or structure parts.
• Shape seams, joints, or irregular edges of pressure vessel sections.
• Position, align, and secure structural parts to boiler frames or tanks.
• 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 or other heat-resistant materials in fireboxes.
• Assemble large vessels in an on-site fabrication shop.

Requirements

• No minimum education requirements.
• NCCER Boilermaker certification required.
• Valid Driver’s License and TWIC Card required.
• 3-5 years of Journeyman level experience required.

Additional Information

• Employees must be able to perform physical tasks and work in industrial environments.
• Must be able to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa.