Boilermaker - Austin Industrial (La Porte, TX)

Construct, assemble, maintain, and repair stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries.

Requirements

• Examine boilers, pressure vessels, tanks, or vats to locate defects
• Bolt or arc welds pressure vessel structures and parts together
• Inspect assembled vessels or individual components
• Repair or replace defective pressure vessel parts
• Attach rigging and signal crane or hoist operators to lift heavy frame and plate sections
• Lay out plate, sheet steel, or other heavy metal and locate and mark bending and cutting lines
• Install manholes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges, or feedwater connections
• Straighten or reshape bent pressure vessel plates or structure parts
• Shape seams, joints, or irregular edges of pressure vessel sections or structural parts
• Position, align, and secure structural parts or related assemblies
• Locate and mark reference points for columns or plates on boiler foundations
• Shape or fabricate parts, such as stacks, uptakes, or chutes, to adapt pressure vessels, heat exchangers, or piping to premises
• Clean pressure vessel equipment
• Install refractory bricks or other heat-resistant materials in fireboxes of pressure vessels