Pipefitter

Zachry Group • Freeport, TX

4d

About The Position

The Industrial Pipe Fitter assembles, lays out, installs, and maintains piping systems for steam, fluid, and gas. Systems may include pipe, flanges, supports, valves, gauges, hangers, and angles. The work includes pipe fabrication, layout, fitting, installation, and interpreting drawings and specifications, with experience working on drums, towers, offsets, and miter fittings.

Pipe Fitters may work throughout construction or maintenance sites, including inside buildings and structures such as tanks or boilers, outdoors, in underground excavations, and at heights of up to 300 feet. The position works closely with helpers and laborers and may occasionally oversee them, exercising positional and expertise authority over those roles. The role requires adherence to safety rules and may involve working outdoors in varying weather conditions for periods of up to 12 hours a day.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience as an Industrial Pipe Fitter or Pipe Fitter Helper, including experience with pipe-fitting processes.
• Demonstrated industrial construction or maintenance experience, including experience on an industrial construction project.
• Ability to read prints, blueprints, and construction drawings.
• Ability to read and interpret technical manuals, manufacturers' manuals, and instructions.
• Knowledge of pipe-fitting processes for industrial piping and boiler components for a combined-cycle power plant.
• Good problem-solving abilities, aptitude, manual dexterity, and reading comprehension.
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently with minimal supervision.
• Good communication skills with coworkers and supervisors.
• Commitment to Zachry values and safety rules and regulations.
• Ability to perform extended periods of standing, walking, bending, squatting, and lifting; communicate by speaking and hearing; and use hands and fingers for precision adjustments and to handle tools and materials.
• May be required to lift, carry, and move up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to occasionally work at heights, climb ladders and stairways, and work from platforms; work at heights up to 300 feet using proper fall protection.
• Ability to work outdoors in heat, cold, rain, snow, and wind and for periods of up to 12 hours a day.
• Ability to wear required personal protective equipment, including a hard hat, safety glasses or goggles, ear plugs or muffs, masks or respirators, safety vests, gloves, and steel-toe boots.
• Vision abilities to focus and see short and long distances, colors, depth, and peripheral vision.

Nice To Haves

• Zachry ROF’d employee.
• Former Zachry employee.
• NCCER Certification as an Industrial Pipe Fitter.
• Formal or technical education.

Responsibilities

• Read blueprints and specifications to determine work scope, locations, quantities, and required material sizes.
• Identify the tools required for tasks and safety risks and precautions needed to eliminate those risks.
• Prepare, fabricate, install, and fit pipe to specifications.
• Install valves, hangers, supports, and flanges in piping systems according to plans and applicable specifications.
• Perform tests to ensure the quality of pipe and piping systems.
• Hoist loads using slings, chains, shackles, hooks, cables, and other rigging equipment.
• Work closely with helpers and laborers and occasionally oversee those positions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed