Boilermaker - Chickasaw, AL

Turner Industries•Chickasaw, AL

11d•Onsite

About The Position

Turner Industries is seeking a Boilermaker for a position in Chickasaw, Alabama. The role assembles and disassembles, erects, and repairs boilers, tanks, vats, pressure vessels, exchangers, and heaters according to blueprint specifications. This is a non-exempt position reporting to a Front-Line Supervisor (Foreman). Duties are assigned according to specific procedures, and work is checked frequently. The work includes positioning and fitting structural and plate sections; attaching rigging or signaling crane operators; bolting structures and components together; installing boiler and process-vessel parts and accessories; and assisting with testing assembled vessels. The position requires compliance with company and client job-site safety requirements. Post-offer screening includes a drug and alcohol screen, physical evaluation, and acceptance of the company's Drug, Alcohol and Contraband Policy.

Requirements

High school education or equivalent.
One to four years of experience in the specified skill, depending on mechanic level.
Demonstrated proficiency in construction tool use, such as grinders and oxy/acetylene torches.
Rigging experience.
Complete a post-offer drug and alcohol screen and physical evaluation, and sign acceptance of the company Drug, Alcohol and Contraband Policy.
Must not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of others in the workplace.

Nice To Haves

National certification is preferred and may be required by the client.

Responsibilities

Assemble and disassemble, erect, and repair boilers, tanks, vats, pressure vessels, exchangers, and heaters according to blueprint specifications.
Locate and mark reference points for columns and plates on foundations.
Attach rigging or signal crane operators to lift parts into position.
Align structures or plate sections and prepare irregular edges by hammering, flame-cutting, filing, or grinding.
Bolt structures and sections together, and position drums and headers into supports or bolt supports to frames.
Align water tubes and connect and expand tube ends to drums and headers.
Bolt casing sections, uptakes, stacks, baffles, and fabricated components such as chutes, air heaters, fan stands, feeding tubes, catwalks, ladders, coal hoppers, and safety hatches to frames.
Install trays in process towers.
Install manholes, valves, gauges, and feedwater connections in drums to complete water-tube boiler assemblies.
Assist in testing assembled vessels.
Comply with company and client job-site safety requirements.