Job Description

Overview

Cleaver Brooks Sales and Service is seeking a Boilermaker to assemble boilers, tanks, vats, and pressure vessels in Houston, TX. The ideal candidate will have exceptional skills with power and hand tools and at least three years of experience in related fields.

Responsibilities

  • Assembles boilers, tanks, vats, and pressure vessels according to blueprint specifications.
  • Reads blueprints to determine location and relationship of parts.
  • Connects fire tubes to heads or water tubes to drums and headers of boilers.
  • Drills and taps holes for installation of studs.
  • Tightens bolts to assemble frames using hand or power wrenches.
  • Mounts casings of water tube boilers or attaches davit heads, burners, or furnace casing to fire tube boilers.
  • Bolts or screws accessories to vessels using hand tools or power wrenches.
  • Replaces defective parts or piping.
  • Installs and repairs refractory brick or furnace tile.
  • Threads and installs pipe using pipe wrench and dies.
  • Cuts out defective parts using acetylene torch.
  • Lays out, fabricates, assembles, installs, and maintains piping and piping systems for boiler systems.
  • Selects type and size of pipe and related materials according to job specifications.
  • Inspects worksites to determine presence of obstructions.
  • Plans sequence of installation to avoid obstructions.
  • Cuts pipe using various tools.
  • Threads pipe using threading machine.
  • Bends pipe by hand or with pipe-bending machine.
  • Tests piping system for leaks.

Requirements

  • Minimum three years experience in boilers or HVAC.
  • Piping skills and pipe fitting experience.
  • High School diploma or equivalent.
  • Valid Driver's License.
  • Computer competency including Outlook, Word, Excel.
  • Basic understanding of HVAC industry terminology is a plus.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • 75% Travel required.
  • Primarily field and project based.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Houston, TX currently run a median of $24/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$33/hr across 64 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 Houston, TX

We're tracking 230 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 128 different employers. 5 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 953 other active welding openings from 418 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Houston, or widen the search to Texas.

Cleaver-Brooks currently has 2 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 Austin Industries (34), Zachry Group (24), and Welding Shop in Houston, TX (23). 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 Old Sixth Ward at $40/hr, Dallas at $36/hr, and Channelview at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Houston, TX

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