Boilermaker - Port Lavaca, TX

Turner Industries•Port Lavaca, TX

4h•Onsite

About The Position

Turner Industries Group is looking for an experienced Boilermaker for a full-time maintenance position in Point Comfort, TX. This role involves assembling and disassembling, erecting, and repairing boilers, tanks, vats, pressure vessels, exchangers, and heaters according to blueprint specifications. The position requires the ability to pass a background check and drug screen, and a TWIC card is mandatory. No per diem or relocation is available, so the successful candidate must be a current resident in or near the area.

Requirements

3 to 5 years experience
Must be able to pass background check and drug screen
TWIC required
Must have valid drivers license
One (1) to four (4) years of experience in specified skill (depending on mechanic level)
Written pre-employment qualification test
Post-offer drug/alcohol screen and physical evaluation
Turner Industries Group, LLC indoctrination
OSHA approved corrective eyewear (Z87)
Job site orientation
Job site safety requirements as required by the client (clean shaven, long sleeves, steel toe boots, etc.)
Safety equipment as required by the client (hard hat, safety glasses, gloves, respirator, hearing protection, safety harness with lanyard, etc.)
Applicant/employee must not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of such individual or others in the work place
Climbing ladders, scaffolds, structures, etc. above and below ground level
Maintaining balance on ladders, scaffolds structures, etc.
Reaching in all directions, handling and manipulating objects and materials
Coordinating the movements of eyes, hands and fingers to operate tools and equipment
Lifting 30 to 50 pounds from ground level, waist level, and/or overhead
Carrying objects, tools, equipment, etc.
Standing
Sitting
Walking
Pushing
Pulling
Bending
Kneeling
Crouching/squatting
Crawling
Seeing with or without correction
Hearing with or without correction
Following set procedures and standards
Applying basic mathematical skills
Planning work and selecting proper tools
Comparing and understanding differences in the size, shape and form of lines, figures and objects
Picturing and evaluating solid objects from drawing or diagrams using standards that can be measured or checked
Following oral and/or written directions, plans and blueprints
Reading
Writing
Ability to recognize and report safety hazards

Responsibilities

Assembles and disassembles, erects and repairs boilers, tanks, vats, pressure vessels, exchangers and heaters according to blueprint specifications.
Locates and marks reference points for columns and plates on foundation.
Attaches rigging or signals crane operator to lift parts to specified position.
Aligns structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame, tanks or vats.
Hammers, flame-cuts, files or grinds irregular edges of sections or structural parts to facilitate fitting edges together.
Bolts structures and sections together.
Positions drums and headers into supports or bolts supports to frame.
Aligns water tubes and connects and expands tube ends to drums and headers.
Bolts casing sections, uptakes, stacks, baffles and such fabricated parts as chutes, air heaters, fan stands, feeding tube, catwalks, ladders, coal hoppers and safety hatch to frame.
Installs trays in process towers.
Installs manholes, valves, gauges and feedwater connection in drums to complete assembly of water tube boilers.
Assists in testing assembled vessels.