Boilermaker

LEAD Staff; Virginia; On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

LEAD Staff is seeking experienced boiler technicians to test and inspect boiler systems, repair valves, and perform cleaning and maintenance across open-air and confined-space environments. You will read blueprints, interpret specifications, and install essential fittings in water-tube boilers while maintaining stringent safety standards.

Ideal candidates have extensive boiler/valve repair experience, can pass a drug screen, and are prepared for travel to diverse sites including ships and

Qualifications

• Preferred 8 years of boiler, heat exchanger, and valve repair experience.
• Ability to pass a drug screen.
• DBIDS/TWIC credentials may be required.
• Open-air working conditions and travel to projects aboard ships, rigs, or offshore sites.

Responsibilities

• Test and inspect boiler systems for leaks or defects.
• Replace or repair valves using hand/power tools.
• Clean boilers and boiler furnaces; inspect vessels and components for defects.
• Install manholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges, and feedwater connections.
• Read blueprints and follow procedures with attention to drawings and specs.
• Wear PPE and work in adherence with safety protocols.
• Work 60+ hours per week as needed to meet production demands.

Skills

Boiler repair

Valve repair

Blueprint reading

Safety compliance

Reading procedures

Confined spaces

Education

8+ years boiler/heat exchanger experience

Tools

Hand tools

Power tools

Gas torches

PPE

Job description

Job Description

Job Description

Test and inspect boiler systems for leaks or defects

Replace or repair valves, using hand and power tools.

Be experienced in using gas torches.

Cleaning of boilers and boiler furnaces.

Inspect assembled vessels and individual components, such as tubes, fittings, valves, controls, and auxiliary mechanisms, to locate any defects.

Install manholes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges, and feedwater connections in drums of water tube boilers, using hand tools.

Clean pressure vessel equipment, using scrapers, wire brushes, and cleaning solvents.

Install refractory brick in fireboxes.

Use blueprints to determine locations, positions, or dimensions of parts.

Ability to read, interpret and follow procedures. Competent in reading and understanding specifications and drawings.

Wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) appropriate to current or daily job duties

Be fit for a respirator

Able to constantly climb stairs and ladders, up to 200 rungs/steps per hour

Access confined spaces.

Complies with the highest level of safety during all stages of project execution to avoid any type of incidents and or accidents.

Walk to, from, and between assigned work areas throughout the scheduled shift.

Endure noise, fumes, dust, and inclement weather.

Work overtime as needed to meet production demands

Required Education and Experience:

(Preferred) Possess 8 years of Boiler, heat exchanger, and valve repair experience.

Ability to pass a drug screen.

Ability to obtain DBIDS/TWIC credentials.

Working Conditions:

Open-air conditions such as noise, hot, and cold, as well as in an office-controlled environment.

May have to visit projects aboard ships, rigs both on and offshore as well as confined spaces. You must wear hearing, eye, and head protection and proper PPE when required.

Visits may require standing on a variety of surfaces and at differing angles, bending over, crouching, and climbing up and over obstructions such as scaffolding, ladders, and internal barge and boat structural members.

Some travel required

Also candidates with bricklaying experience in refractories in industrial settings such as cement plants, steel mills, power plants, etc

Must be able to work 60+hours/week