Boilermaker P&I

Wood•Orlando, FL

About The Position

Assemble and repair boilers, tanks, vats, pressure vessels, boiler auxiliaries, and ancillary equipment according to specifications using power tools, rigging equipment, and hand tools. The role includes fitting, aligning, fastening, welding, and repairing structural and boiler components, as well as assisting with pressure testing and performing minor maintenance and cleaning. The position requires working to precise standards, applying shop mathematics, selecting suitable tools, interpreting plans and drawings, and working at heights.

Requirements

Work within precise limits or standards of accuracy.
Apply shop mathematics to solve problems.
Plan work and select proper tools.
Compare differences in the size, shape, and form of lines, figures, and objects.
Visualize objects in three dimensions from plans and drawings.
Make decisions based on measurable criteria.
Work at heights without fear.

Responsibilities

Locate and mark reference points for columns or plates on foundations using a master straightedge, squares, transit, and measuring tape, applying knowledge of geometry.
Attach rigging or signal crane operators to lift components into specified positions.
Align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frames, tanks, or vats using plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles.
Hammer, flame-cut, file, or grind irregular edges of sections or structural parts to facilitate fitting.
Bolt or arc-weld structures and sections together; position drums and headers into supports and bolt or weld supports to frames.
Align water tubes, connect them, and expand their ends to drums and headers using a tube expander.
Bolt or weld casing sections, uptakes, stacks, baffles, and fabricated parts such as chutes, air heaters, fan stands, feeding tubes, catwalks, ladders, coal hoppers, and safety hatches to frames using wrenches.
Perform minor maintenance or cleaning activities with tools and equipment.
Install manholes, handholds, valves, gauges, and feedwater connections in drums to complete water-tube boiler assembly.
Assist in testing assembled vessels by pumping water or gas under specified pressure and observing instruments for leakage.
Repair boilers or tanks in the field by removing defective sections or tubes, straightening plates, installing new tubes, fitting and welding new sections, and replacing worn bolt lugs.
May fasten and caulk vessel sections using pneumatic fasteners and caulking hammers.
May line fireboxes with refractory brick and blocks.
May fabricate stacks, uptakes, chutes, and other parts to adapt boilers to installation premises.
Perform flame cutting and use torches.
Observe and comply with all safety and project rules.