Pipefitter

About the role

Koch Specialty Plant Services, LLC (KSPS) has immediate openings for Pipefitters at various locations throughout the United States. KSPS is a world‑leader in tower, vessel, and mass‑transfer equipment services for the refining and chemical industries, operating under the Principle Based Management® philosophy that emphasizes integrity, compliance, and customer focus.

Responsibilities

• Identify and properly install trays, packing, grid, feed pipe, distributors, collectors, and various column pressure internals under limited supervision.
• Apply basic Process Safety Management knowledge and Hazardous Communication skills.
• Identify exchanger components such as straight tube, U‑bend, fixed‑head bundles, channel head, dollar plate, bell head, floating head, etc.
• Identify hand and power tools and their purposes.
• Use all tools and equipment necessary to perform assigned work.

Basic Qualifications

• 6 months or more of industry experience preferred.
• Previous experience in gas and oil field construction preferred.
• Ability to provide personal transportation to job locations throughout the U.S.
• Willingness and ability to meet all company and customer project entry requirements, including training, background check, and drug test.
• Current TWIC card or ability to obtain one if required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Two years or more of industrial plant experience in blinding, opening, cleaning, and repairing operating pressure vessels (towers, reactors, drums, exchangers, heaters) and/or installing mass‑transfer equipment (trays, packing, distributors, collectors, etc.).
• Experience installing process internals such as valve trays, bubble‑cap trays, mist eliminators, structured packing, reactor internals, random packing, distributors, and collectors.
• Ability to properly use an oxy‑acetylene torch.
• Ability to operate an arc gauger.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings or blueprints to identify and install process internals.
• Basic Plus Orientation.
• Confined Space Training.
• Successful completion of an NCCER craft assessment certificate(s).

Benefits

• Medical coverage.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Additional benefits may vary by geographic region according to plan documents.

Company Overview

As a Koch Engineered Solutions company, KSPS provides code‑welding work related to repair, revamp, replacement, and field fabrication of towers and vessels, piping, specialty welding, mass‑transfer equipment installation, inspection, and professional project services. Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds, and are Military Ready and Second Chance employers.