Ironworker Helper (La Porte, TX) - Austin Industrial

Austin Industries; La Porte (TX); On-site; USD 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Austin Industries is seeking an Ironworker Helper who will play a crucial role in raising and placing structural steel members. With no minimum educational requirements, the position requires 3-5 years of industrial experience and a valid driver's license. This role is vital to maintaining the company’s high safety and quality standards within the construction industry, assisting in various tasks from reading blueprints to ensuring proper alignment of structures.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of industrial experience required.
• Valid Driver's License required.
• No minimum education requirements specified.

Responsibilities

• Read blueprints and select required materials for construction.
• Guide structural components into position and secure them.
• Verify vertical and horizontal alignment using tools.

Skills

Blueprint reading

Hoisting equipment setup

Structural steel alignment

Job description

About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of 4,000 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency.

Ironworker Helper

Performs duties to raise, place and unite girders, columns and other structural steel members to form completed structures or structure framework. This is accomplished by performing the following essential duties and responsibilities. Other duties may be assigned.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Reads blueprints and selects requiredmaterial for construction.
• Sets up hoisting equipment for raising and placing structural steel members.
• Fastens steel members to cable of hoist, using chain, cable orrope.
• Guides structure being lifted into proper position and aligns rivet holes with corresponding holes
• Drives drift pins through rivet holes.
• May assist in lifting, positions and securing of materials and work pieces during installation.
• Verifies vertical and horizontal alignment using plumb bob and level. Bolts align members to keep them in position until they can be permanently bolted or welded in place.
• Bolts aligned structures to keep them in position until permanently riveted, bolted or welded into place.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• 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.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Education – no minimum education requirements.

Experience – 3-5 years Industrial experience.

Certification/License: Valid Driver's License

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

• See the “Know Your Rights” poster available in English and Spanish.

No Third-Party Inquiries Please

• 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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Qualifications Licenses & Certifications

Required

Valid Driver's License

Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.