Boilermaker: Build & Repair Industrial Boilers

Austin Industries, Inc.; Artesia (NM); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Austin Industrial is seeking a Boilermaker to construct, assemble, maintain, and repair steam boilers and related systems. You will work from blueprints, weld and assemble pressure vessels, and ensure safety and quality in on-site environments.

Position requires NCCER Boilermaker certification, a valid driver’s license, TWIC card, and 3–5 years of journeyman experience. Equal opportunity employer; standard safety protocols apply.

Qualifications

• Education: no minimum education requirements.
• Certification/License: NCCER Boilermaker certification, a Valid Driver’s License and TWIC Card.
• Experience: 3-5 years of Journeyman level experience.

Responsibilities

• 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 seams, joints, or irregular edges of pressure vessel sections or structural parts to attain specified fit of parts, using cutting torches, hammers, files, or metalworking machines.
• Position, align, and secure structural parts or related assemblies to boiler frames, tanks, or vats of pressure vessels, following blueprints.
• Locate and mark reference points for columns or plates on boiler foundations, following blueprints and using straightedges, squares, transits, or measuring instruments.
• 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.

Education

NCCER Boilermaker certification

Job description

Austin Industrial is seeking a Boilermaker to construct, assemble, maintain, and repair steam boilers and related systems. You will work from blueprints, weld and assemble pressure vessels, and ensure safety and quality in on-site environments.

Position requires NCCER Boilermaker certification, a valid driver’s license, TWIC card, and 3–5 years of journeyman experience. Equal opportunity employer; standard safety protocols apply.