Boilermaker NCCER - Austin Industrial (Pasadena, Tx)

About the role

Austin Industrial provides premier self‑perform maintenance, construction, and soft‑craft services to leading industrial companies across the United States. With more than 60 years of experience, the company serves customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing sectors.

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 as required.
• Assist in testing assembled vessels and directly clean boilers and boiler furnaces.
• 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 (leaks, weak spots, 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 any 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, and 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 (stacks, uptakes, chutes) to adapt pressure vessels, heat exchangers, or piping to premises, using heavy‑metal‑working 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 before installation to ensure proper fit.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education: No minimum requirement.
• Experience: Minimum 4 years in industrial planning and scheduling.
• Certifications/Licenses: NCCER certification preferred (not required) and a valid driver’s license.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States; the company cannot sponsor employment visas.

Physical, Mental & Environmental Requirements

Employees must be able to sit, stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, and use hands and fingers to perform assigned duties. The position may require lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling up to 50 lb, working at elevations, on uneven surfaces, or in confined spaces. Visual, hearing, communication, and motor skills sufficient to safely perform job responsibilities are required. Work is performed in industrial and construction environments with exposure to weather conditions, temperature extremes, noise, dust, fumes, moving equipment, vibration, and other site‑specific hazards. Employees must wear required personal protective equipment (PPE) and meet all customer, site, regulatory, medical, and fitness‑for‑duty requirements. Reasonable accommodations may be made for qualified individuals with disabilities.