Boilermaker

Turner Industries is a fully diversified industrial contractor providing responsive, innovative solutions to increase plant production, reduce costs, and prevent downtime. Headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA, Turner Industries employs over 20,000 people across the United States, serving the petrochemical, refining, energy, pulp and paper, and related industries. The company is ranked No. 1 on ABC's 2024 Top Performers list.

About the Role

The Boilermaker assembles, disassembles, erects, and repairs boilers, tanks, vats, pressure vessels, exchangers, and heaters according to blueprint specifications. This is a non-exempt role reporting to a Front-Line Supervisor (Foreman).

Responsibilities

• Locate and mark reference points for columns and plates on foundation.
• Attach rigging or signal crane operator to lift parts to specified position.
• Align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame, tanks, or vats.
• Hammer, flame-cut, file, or grind irregular edges of sections or structural parts to facilitate fitting edges together.
• Bolt structures and sections together.
• Position drums and headers into supports or bolt supports to frame.
• Align water tubes and connect and expand tube ends to drums and headers.
• Bolt casing sections, uptakes, stacks, baffles, and fabricated parts such as chutes, air heaters, fan stands, feeding tubes, catwalks, ladders, coal hoppers, and safety hatches to frame.
• Install trays in process towers.
• Install manholes, valves, gauges, and feedwater connections in drums to complete assembly of water tube boilers.
• Assist in testing assembled vessels.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• One to four years of experience in the specified skill (depending on mechanic level).
• Successful completion of a written pre-employment qualification test.
• Post-offer drug/alcohol screen and physical evaluation.
• Compliance with job site safety requirements as required by the client (e.g., clean shaven, long sleeves, steel toe boots).
• Use of safety equipment as required by the client (e.g., hard hat, safety glasses, gloves, respirator, hearing protection, safety harness with lanyard).
• Demonstrated proficiency in construction tool use (e.g., grinders, oxy/acetylene torch).
• Rigging experience.
• National Certification preferred (may be required by client).
• Applicant/employee must not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of others in the workplace.

Physical Demands

• Climbing ladders, scaffolds, structures, etc., above and below ground level.
• Maintaining balance on ladders, scaffolds, and structures.
• Reaching in all directions.
• Handling and manipulating objects and materials.
• Coordinating eye, hand, and finger movements to operate tools and equipment.
• Lifting 30 to 50 pounds from ground level, waist level, and/or overhead.
• Carrying objects, tools, and equipment.
• Standing, sitting, walking, pushing, pulling, bending, kneeling, crouching, or squatting.
• Seeing and hearing with or without correction.
• Wearing respirators and other personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Working in excessive heat, cold, or loud environments.

Benefits

Depending on employment status, benefits may include:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment (ADD), voluntary life/ADD, and disability benefits.
• Leaves of absence.
• 401k retirement plan.
• Paid time off and paid holidays.
• Telehealth access.
• Employee assistance program.