Boilermaker

About the role

Cleaver Brooks Sales and Service is seeking a Boilermaker to join the team in Houston, TX. The Boilermaker assembles boilers, tanks, vats, and pressure vessels according to blueprint specifications using power tools and hand tools. The role requires reading blueprints to determine location and relationship of parts, researching technical drawings and materials to ensure appropriate parts are pulled for each job, and working collaboratively with strong communication and writing skills. A minimum of three years' experience in boilers or HVAC, piping skills, pipe fitting, and assembly of boilers, tanks, vats, and pressure vessels according to blueprint specifications or manuals is required. This is a field- and project-based position with 75%+ travel.

Responsibilities

Boilermaker

• Assembles boilers, tanks, vats, and pressure vessels according to blueprint specifications, using power tools and hand tools
• Reads blueprint to determine location and relationship of parts
• Connects fire tubes to heads or water tubes to drums and headers of boilers, by expanding and belling ends, using tube expander and beading ends, using power hammer
• Drills and taps holes for installation of studs, using portable drill
• 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, using wrenches
• Bolts or screws accessories, such as man-holes, hand-holes, fans, gauges, and valves to vessel, using hand tools or power wrenches
• Replaces defective parts or piping, using power wrenches, prying bars, or hand tools
• May install and repair refractory brick or furnace tile
• May thread and install pipe, using pipe wrench and dies
• May remove and replace insulation and caulk seams to repair insulation on shells, piping, boiler fire-sides or structures
• May cut out defective parts, boiler tubes or tube ends using acetylene torch

Pipefitter Piping

• Lays out, fabricates, assembles, installs, and maintains piping and piping systems, fixtures, and equipment for boiler systems by threading or by sweating copper pipe or pro-press fittings
• Selects type and size of pipe and related materials according to job specifications
• Inspects worksites to determine presence of obstructions and to ascertain that piping integrity will not cause structural weakness
• Plans sequence of installation to avoid obstructions and activities of other construction workers
• Cuts pipe, using hacksaw, pipe cutters, hammer and chisel, cutting torch, and pipe cutting machine
• Threads pipe, using threading machine
• Bends pipe by hand or with pipe-bending machine
• Assembles and installs variety of metal pipe and pipe-fittings
• Secures pipes to structure with clamps, brackets, and hangers, using hand tools
• Tests piping system for leaks by increasing pressure in pipes and observing gauges attached to pipes for indication of leaks
• May weld holding fixtures to structural steel members

Requirements

• Work within precise limits or standards of accuracy
• Make decisions based on measurable criteria
• Visualize objects in three dimensions from plans and drawings
• Work easily and skillfully with hands
• 75% travel required
• Valid driver's license
• Computer proficiency, moderate typing; completing work orders, job-related paperwork, and written expense reports as needed
• Driving or operating fork trucks, man-lifts, or other transportation-type equipment
• Lift and carry objects weighing up to 50 pounds
• See well (either naturally or with correction)
• Climb and maintain balance on high ladders and scaffolds
• Stand, stoop, kneel, or crouch
• Knowledge of industrial & commercial safety, general basic safety, LOTO, working overhead, confined space entry, basic electricity safety

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent (mandatory)
• Computer competency including Outlook, Word, Excel
• Basic understanding of HVAC industry terminology a plus
• At least three years' experience in a similar industrial/technical position

Travel

75%+ travel, primarily field and project based.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, maternity support program, discounted virtual physician visits, voluntary medical benefits (Critical Illness, Hospital Care, and Accidental Injury), FSA, HSA, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Cash matching 401(k) plan
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Pet insurance
• Employee discount program
• Tuition assistance
• Paid time off and 11 paid holidays

About Cleaver-Brooks Sales & Service

Cleaver-Brooks Sales and Service, Inc. (CBSS) is a market leader in providing fully integrated boiler and burner systems. CBSS offers a full range of capabilities from new equipment, installation, rentals, retrofits, repairs, parts, and service. The company delivers, installs, and upgrades boiler room solutions that improve efficiency, reduce cost, and optimize space. CBSS provides efficient, reliable, safe, and environmentally sustainable solutions and operates as a 24/7 customer-driven operation.