Boilermaker ( Freeport, TX) Austin Industrial

Austin-Industrial; Freeport (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Austin Industrial is hiring a Boilermaker in Freeport, TX to construct, assemble, maintain, and repair stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries. You will read blueprints, align components, and use hand tools, welding equipment, and rigging for field assembly and in-shop fabrication.

The role requires NCCER Boilermaker certification, a valid driver's license, and 3–5 years of journeyman experience. On-site work with standard safety practices and physical duties is expected.

Qualifications

• NCCER Boilermaker certification and a valid driver's license are required.
• 3–5 years of journeyman level experience in boilermaking or related field.
• Experience reading blueprints and performing boiler fabrication/repair tasks.

Responsibilities

• Construct, assemble, maintain, and repair stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries.
• Align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame tanks following blueprints.
• Inspect and repair boiler fittings such as safety valves and regulators.
• Install manholes, taps, gauges, and feedwater connections in boiler systems.
• Operate hand and power tools, welding equipment, and rigging to support boiler work.

Skills

Journeyman experience

Blueprints reading

Welding

Boiler maintenance

Education

NCCER Boilermaker certification

Valid Driver's License

Tools

Welding equipment

Hand tools

Job description

Boilermaker ( Freeport, TX) Austin Industrial

Job Category: Craft

Requisition Number: BOILE033975

• Posted : September 15, 2026
• Full-Time
• On-site

Locations

Showing 1 location

Freeport, TX, USA

Description

Boilermaker

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. This is accomplished by performing the following essential duties and responsibilities. Other duties may be assigned.

Specific Duties and 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.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Certification/License: NCCER Boilermaker certification, a Valid Driver’s License

Experience: 3-5 years of Journeyman level experience.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

• This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy.The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (e.), payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

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Licenses & Certifications

Required

TWIC Card

NCCER-Ind BM Certified

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