BOILERMAKER - Austin Industrial - Orange, TX

About the role

Austin Industrial provides premier self‑perform maintenance, construction, and soft‑craft services to leading industrial companies across the United States. An industry leader for more than 60 years, the company offers single‑source solutions to customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing sectors. The Boilermaker constructs, assembles, maintains, and repairs stationary steam boilers and boiler‑house auxiliaries, aligning structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frames, tanks, or vats according to blueprints. Work involves hand and power tools, plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, turnbuckles, and direct cleaning of boilers and furnace interiors.

Responsibilities

• Examine boilers, pressure vessels, tanks, or vats to locate defects such as leaks, weak spots, or defective sections for repair.
• Bolt or arc‑weld pressure‑vessel structures and parts together using wrenches or welding equipment.
• Inspect assembled vessels or individual components (tubes, fittings, valves, controls, auxiliary mechanisms) to locate defects.
• Repair or replace defective pressure‑vessel parts (safety valves, regulators) using torches, jacks, caulking hammers, power saws, threading dies, welding equipment, or metal‑working machinery.
• Attach rigging and signal crane or hoist operators to lift heavy frame and plate sections or other parts into place.
• Bell, bead with power hammers, or weld pressure‑vessel tube ends to ensure leak‑proof joints.
• Lay out plate, sheet steel, or other heavy metal and locate and mark bending and cutting lines using protractors, compasses, drawing instruments, or templates.
• Install manholes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges, or feedwater connections in drums of water‑tube boilers using hand tools.
• Study blueprints to determine locations, relationships, or dimensions of parts.
• Straighten or reshape bent pressure‑vessel plates or structural parts using hammers, jacks, or torches.
• Shape seams, joints, or irregular edges of pressure‑vessel sections or structural parts to attain specified fit using cutting torches, hammers, files, or metal‑working machines.
• Position, align, and secure structural parts or related assemblies to boiler frames, tanks, or vats of pressure vessels following blueprints.
• Locate and mark reference points for columns or plates on boiler foundations using straightedges, squares, transits, or measuring instruments.
• Shape or fabricate parts such as stacks, uptakes, or chutes to adapt pressure vessels, heat exchangers, or piping, using heavy‑metal‑working machines (brakes, rolls, drill presses).
• Clean pressure‑vessel equipment using scrapers, wire brushes, and cleaning solvents.
• Install refractory bricks or other heat‑resistant materials in fireboxes of pressure vessels.
• Assemble large vessels in an on‑site fabrication shop prior to installation to ensure proper fit.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education: No minimum education requirements.
• Certification/License: NCCER Boilermaker certification, a valid driver’s license, and a TWIC card.
• Experience: 3–5 years of journeyman‑level experience.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
• Frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds; frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Vision requirements: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Austin Industrial is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Accessibility

Job seekers with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation to apply or who have accessibility concerns may contact the People Services Team at (877) 831‑1217.