Boilermaker

About the role

Bilfinger is an international industrial services provider with a vision to be the No. 1 for its customers in enhancing efficiency and sustainability within the process industry. The company operates in three geography-based segments: Western Europe, Central Europe, and International, with primary activities in Europe, North America, and the Middle East.

Responsibilities

Assembles, analyzes defects in, and repairs boilers, pressure vessels, tanks, and vats in the field, following blueprints and using handtools and portable power tools and equipment. Specific duties include:

• Locating and marking reference points for columns or plates on foundation, using master straightedge, squares, transit, and measuring tape, and applying knowledge of geometry.
• Attaching rigging or signals crane operator in lift parts to specified position.
• Aligning structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame, tanks, or vats, using plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles.
• Hammering, flame-cutting, filing, or grinding irregular edges of sections or structural parts to facilitate fitting edges together.
• Bolting or arc-welding structures and sections together.
• Positioning drums and headers into supports or bolting or welding supports to frame.
• Aligning water tubes and connecting and expanding ends to drums and headers, using tube expander.
• Belling, beading with power hammer, or welding tube ends to insure leak proof joints.
• Bolting or welding casing sections, uptakes, stacks, baffles, and such fabricated parts as chutes, air heaters, fan stands, feeding tube, catwalks, ladders, coal hoppers, and safety hatch to frame, using wrench.
• Installing manholes, valves, gages, and feed water connection in drums to complete assembly of water tube boilers.
• Assisting in testing assembled vessels by pumping water or gas under specified pressure into vessels and observing instruments for evidence of leakage.

Requirements

Workers should be able to:

• Work within precise limits or standards of accuracy.
• Apply shop mathematics to solve problems.
• Plan work and select proper tools.
• Compare and see differences in the size, shape, and form of lines, figures, and objects.
• Picture solid objects from drawings or diagrams.
• Perform a variety of duties which may change often.
• Rate information using standards that can be measured or checked.

Physically, workers must be able to:

• Climb and maintain balance on scaffolds and ladders.
• Reach for, handle, and manipulate objects and materials.
• Lift and carry objects weighing up to 100 pounds.
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl, and see well (either naturally or with correction).

Completion of apprenticeship program required. May be required to be licensed. Must have TWIC card. Must be able to pass required training and a hair follicle test.

Qualifications

Must have completed an apprenticeship program. May be required to be licensed. Must have a TWIC card and be able to pass required training and a hair follicle test.