Pipefitter/Fabricator -Pipe Fabrication Shop in Port Allen, LA
About The Position
The Pipefitter/Fabricator works under a foreman’s direction, assists skilled workers, and performs a variety of duties in Turner Industries’ Port Allen, Louisiana pipe fabrication shop. The role involves interpreting shop sketches, identifying the materials specified, and fabricating pipe spools from detailed sketches. Applicants must be able to pass a pipe fitters test. Work includes gathering and preparing materials, fitting and cutting pipe, recording heat numbers when required, and maintaining a clean work area. The job is performed in an industrial construction site and/or fabrication shop environment and may involve uneven or obstructed access, confined areas, and work at low or high elevations, as well as exposure to outdoor weather, noise, and potential chemical substances.
Requirements
- Ability to pass a pipe fitters test.
- Ability to interpret shop sketches and identify specified materials.
- Basic math skills, including adding and subtracting dimensions and calculating arcs, rolls, spool orientation, and flange hole positions.
- Preferably one to four years of experience in the specified skill.
- Must pass a pre-employment on-site qualification test.
- Subject to a post-offer drug/alcohol screen and physical evaluation.
- OSHA-approved corrective eyewear (Z87) is required where applicable.
- Must meet job-site PPE requirements, including hearing protection, safety glasses, long-sleeve shirt, gloves, and steel-toe boots.
- Ability to follow procedures and standards, plan work, select proper tools, read and interpret load charts, judge distances and slopes, follow directions, and recognize and report safety hazards.
- Ability to perform physical activities including climbing, balancing, reaching, handling materials, operating tools, lifting 30–50 pounds, carrying, standing, sitting, walking, pushing, pulling, bending, kneeling, crouching, and crawling.
- Ability to see and hear with or without correction.
Nice To Haves
- One to four years of experience in the specified skill is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Read and sign off on JSAs.
- Gather materials listed on sketches and bring them to the fabrication table.
- Record heat numbers from fittings on sketches when required.
- Lay out inside- and outside-diameter nozzle attachments.
- Prepare pipe and fittings for fit-up using pneumatic grinders.
- Use a plasma or oxy/fuel cutting torch.
- Clean the inside diameter with compressed air after fit-up.
- Calculate dimensions, inside/outside arcs of elbows, outside-diameter rolls, spool orientation, attachments, and flange hole positions.
- Maintain a clean work area.
- Assist skilled workers with assigned duties.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
