Boilermaker - (Freeport, TX)- Austin Industrial

About the Role

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. With over 60 years of industry leadership, we offer single-source solutions to customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Learn more about us at https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/industrial.

Responsibilities

• Construct, assemble, maintain, and repair stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries.
• Align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame tanks or vats, following blueprints.
• Use hand and power tools, plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles.
• Assist in testing assembled vessels.
• Clean boilers and boiler furnaces directly.
• Inspect and repair boiler fittings, such as safety valves, regulators, automatic control mechanisms, water columns, and auxiliary machines.
• Examine boilers, pressure vessels, tanks, or vats to locate defects like leaks, weak spots, or defective sections.
• Bolt or arc weld pressure vessel structures and parts using wrenches or welding equipment.
• Inspect assembled vessels or components (tubes, fittings, valves, controls, auxiliary mechanisms) for defects.
• Repair or replace defective parts using torches, jacks, caulking hammers, power saws, threading dies, welding equipment, or metalworking machinery.
• Attach rigging and signal crane operators to lift heavy frame and plate sections.
• Bell, bead, or weld pressure vessel tube ends to ensure leakproof joints.
• Lay out and mark plate, sheet steel, or heavy metal for bending and cutting.
• Install manholes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges, or feedwater connections in water tube boilers.
• Study blueprints to determine part locations, relationships, and dimensions.
• Straighten or reshape bent pressure vessel plates or structural parts.
• Shape seams, joints, or irregular edges for proper fit using cutting torches, hammers, files, or metalworking machines.
• Position and secure structural parts to boiler frames, tanks, or vats following blueprints.
• Locate and mark reference points for columns or plates on boiler foundations.
• Shape or fabricate parts like stacks, uptakes, or chutes to adapt pressure vessels or piping.
• Clean pressure vessel equipment using scrapers, wire brushes, and solvents.
• Install refractory bricks or heat-resistant materials in fireboxes.
• Assemble large vessels in on-site fabrication shops before installation.

Qualifications

• Education: No minimum education requirements.
• Experience: 3+ years of Journeyman-level experience.
• Certification/License: NCCER and a Valid Driver’s License.

Physical, Mental & Environmental Requirements

Reasonable accommodations may be made for qualified individuals with disabilities. Employees must:

• Sit, stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and use hands and fingers.
• Lift, carry, push, or pull up to 50 pounds.
• Work at elevations, on uneven surfaces, or in confined spaces.
• Possess sufficient visual, hearing, communication, and motor skills.
• Read, comprehend, and follow safety procedures, work instructions, and company policies.
• Exercise sound judgment, solve problems, and maintain attention to detail.
• Manage stress and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Work is performed in industrial and construction environments with exposure to weather, temperature extremes, noise, dust, fumes, moving equipment, vibration, and site-specific hazards. Employees must wear required PPE and meet all applicable requirements.

Additional Information

Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin Industries cannot sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer. For accessibility concerns or reasonable accommodations, contact the People Services Team at (877) 831-1217.