Boilermaker (Baytown, TX) - Austin Industrial

About the role

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. As a Boilermaker, you will construct, assemble, maintain, and repair stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries. This involves aligning structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame tanks or vats following blueprints, using hand and power tools, and assisting in testing assembled vessels.

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 (e.g., tubes, fittings, valves, controls, or auxiliary mechanisms) to locate defects.
• Repair or replace defective pressure vessel parts, such as safety valves or regulators, using torches, jacks, caulking hammers, power saws, threading dies, welding equipment, or metalworking 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 leakproof joints.
• Lay out plate, sheet steel, or other heavy metal, marking 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 for specified fit using cutting torches, hammers, files, or metalworking 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 (e.g., stacks, uptakes, or chutes) to adapt pressure vessels, heat exchangers, or piping to premises using heavy-metalworking machines such as brakes, rolls, or 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.

Requirements

• 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).
• NCCER Boilermaker certification.
• Valid Driver’s License and TWIC Card.
• 3-5 years of Journeyman level experience.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

• 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.
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.