Journeyman Boilermaker – On-Site, Industrial Powerhouse

Austin Industries, Inc.; Channelview (TX); On-site; USD 36,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Austin Industrial is seeking a Boilermaker to construct, assemble, and repair boiler systems in Channelview, TX. This full-time, on-site role requires reading blueprints, welding, and heavy-lifting in industrial settings. Expect exposure to weather and safety protocols; NCCER experience and TWIC recommended.

Competitive hourly rate with full benefits. Channelview location; on-site work, safety-driven environment, and equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• 3+ years journeyman-level experience.
• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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 before installation to ensure proper fit.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Journeyman-level experience

Job description

Austin Industrial is seeking a Boilermaker to construct, assemble, and repair boiler systems in Channelview, TX. This full-time, on-site role requires reading blueprints, welding, and heavy-lifting in industrial settings. Expect exposure to weather and safety protocols; NCCER experience and TWIC recommended.

Competitive hourly rate with full benefits. Channelview location; on-site work, safety-driven environment, and equal opportunity employer.