BOILERMAKER - Austin Industrial - Sulphur, LA

Austin Careers•Lake Charles, LA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service 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. This role involves constructing, assembling, maintaining, and repairing stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries. The Boilermaker will align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame tanks or vats, following blueprints, and work with hand and power tools, plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles. Responsibilities include assisting in testing assembled vessels, direct cleaning of boilers and boiler furnaces, and inspecting and repairing boiler fittings such as safety valves, regulators, automatic-control mechanisms, water columns, and auxiliary machines. Specific duties include examining boilers for defects, arc welding pressure vessel structures, inspecting components, repairing or replacing defective parts, attaching rigging, signaling crane operators, bell/beading tube ends, laying out and marking metal for bending and cutting, installing fittings, studying blueprints, straightening or reshaping plates, shaping seams and joints, positioning and aligning structural parts, locating reference points, fabricating parts, cleaning equipment, installing refractory bricks, and assembling large vessels in an on-site fabrication shop prior to installation.

Requirements

Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States.
NCCER Boilermaker certification
A Valid Driver’s License
TWIC Card
3-5 years of Journeyman level experience.

Responsibilities

Construct, assemble, maintain, and repair stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries.
Align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame tanks or vats, following blueprints.
Work involves use of hand and power tools, plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles.
Assist in testing assembled vessels.
Engages in the direct cleaning of boilers and boiler furnaces.
Inspect and repair boiler fittings, such as safety valves, regulators, automatic-control mechanisms, water columns, and auxiliary machines.
Examine boilers, pressure vessels, tanks, or vats to locate defects, such as leaks, weak spots, or defective sections, so that they can be repaired.
Bolt or arc welds pressure vessel structures and parts together, using wrenches or welding equipment.
Inspect assembled vessels or individual components, such as tubes, fittings, valves, controls, or auxiliary mechanisms, to locate any defects.
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.
Attach rigging and signal crane or hoist operators to lift heavy frame and plate sections or other parts into place.
Bell, bead with power hammers, or weld pressure vessel tube ends to ensure leakproof joints.
Lay out plate, sheet steel, or other heavy metal and locate and mark bending and cutting lines, using protractors, compasses, and drawing instruments or templates.
Install manholes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges, or feedwater connections in drums of water tube boilers, using hand tools.
Study blueprints to determine locations, relationships, or dimensions of parts.
Straighten or reshape bent pressure vessel plates or structure parts, using hammers, jacks, or torches.
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.
Other duties as assigned.