Boiler Technician/ Boilermaker

Redman Equipment & Manufacturing Company•Torrance, CA

21h•$20 - $22•Onsite

About The Position

We offer fully integrated shop services including state-of-the-art technologies, engineering, design, manufacturing, fabrication, maintenance and repair. We are qualified, experienced, and positioned to be the single source provider for clients' custom shell and tube heat transfer equipment, whether it’s a full unit turnaround, or shop repair. Assembles tube sheets, tubes, and heat exchanger shells, producing heat exchangers or takes used heat exchangers apart for re-tubing and refurbishing. The job includes bolting flanges and closures on shell and tube heat exchangers, grinding metal, sanding metal, disassembly, assembly, using impact wrenches, operating lifting equipment, cutting metal, checking metal integrity, and hydrostatic leak checking. Sometimes the job will include performing hot work on metal, hydroblasting, and abrasive blasting. Working conditions are often hot, noisy, dusty, dirty, and cold. The job often requires standing for long periods of time, the ability to bend, push/pull, twist, squat, crawl, climb, and to avoid pinch hazards and normal shop hazards.

Requirements

Should have a minimum of one year of construction or large manufacturing work related experience, knowledge of a fabrication shop, producing and refurbishing heat exchangers experience a plus.
Must have a high school diploma or equivalent experience, knowledge of fabrication shop practices
Must speak, read and write English and be able to use measuring devices
Must be in good physical shape to be able to handle heavy impact (hydraulic) wrenches and other equipment
Must be willing to abide by shop safe work, job set up, and clean up practices
Working conditions- Heat, noisy, dusty, dirty, cold, chemical exposures, pinching hazards, stand for periods of time, able to bend, push/pull, twist, squat, crawl, lift & climb, requires 50 lb. lifting ability, and exposed to normal shop hazards.

Nice To Haves

knowledge of a fabrication shop, producing and refurbishing heat exchangers experience a plus.

Responsibilities

Sets up raw or semi finished material onto work horses or rotating work stands
Uses compressed air and electric equipment including but not limited to circular hand grinders, impact (hydraulic) wrenches, band saws, hand drills, and tube end punchers
Physically lifts 50 pound equipment, uses bridge cranes, may become certified to use forklifts, and may become certified to use mobile cranes
Plans layout of tube sheets with baffles and supporting parts, cuts metal baffles and rods, threads rods, lines up this cage assembly, guides a work crew to install tubes into cage (assemblies of tube sheets, baffles, and supporting parts), producing a bundle assembly
Removes tubes by use of cutting or tube pulling equipment to sledge hammers
Grinds & sands metal plates (tube sheets, baffles, & supporting parts) & metal cylinders (shells)
Drills bolt holes as needed, records tube sheet hole identification pattern
Finishes tube ends to be shaped and flush with tube sheet, often using a rolling machine
Inspects for metal defects using dye penetrant
Pressure testing using water or nitrogen
Tack weld bundles, use torch or may use plasma arc to cut metal, may gouge to liquefy metal
Corrects defects as required
Performs assigned tasks in a safe manner, avoiding all unsafe practices
Performs internal quality control of assembly, cleaning, and test procedures
Sets up and performs jobs based on shop practices and procedures, cleans up debris
Other duties as assigned