Boilermaker Helper - Austin Industrial (Houston, TX)

Austin Industrial • Houston, TX

114d

About The Position

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of 4,000 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost efficiency. The Boilermaker Helper assists the Boilermaker in construction, assembly, maintenance, and repair of stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries. Work involves use of hand and power tools, plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles. Assist in testing assembled vessels and engage in the direct cleaning of boilers and boiler furnaces.

Requirements

• No minimum education requirements.
• Valid Driver's License.
• TWIC Card.
• 6+ months experience in an Industrial setting preferred.

Responsibilities

• Convoys tools, equipment and parts to the work area.
• Cleans work areas and places salvageable material in bins.
• Attach rigging and signal crane or hoist operators to lift heavy frame and plate sections or other parts into place.
• Bolts or unbolts assemblies using hand tools.
• May install packings, catalysts and desiccants in vessels.
• Repair or replace defective pressure vessel parts, such as safety valves or regulators, using torches, jacks, caulking hammers, power saws, threading dies, welding equipment, or metalworking machinery.
• Lay out plate, sheet steel, or other heavy metal.
• Install manholes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges, or feedwater connections in drums of water tube boilers, using hand tools.
• Straighten or reshape bent pressure vessel plates or structure parts, using hammers, jacks, or torches.
• Shape seams, joints, or irregular edges of pressure vessel sections or structural parts to attain specified fit of parts, using cutting torches, hammers, files, or metalworking machines.
• Position, align, and secure structural parts or related assemblies to boiler frames, tanks, or vats of pressure vessels, following blueprints.
• Shape or fabricate parts, such as stacks, uptakes, or chutes, to adapt pressure vessels, heat exchangers, or piping to premises, using heavy-metalworking 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 prior to installation to ensure proper fit.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods