MILLWRIGHT - Austin Industrial - Des Moines, IA

Austin Industries, Inc.; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Austin Industrial in Des Moines, IA, is hiring a Millwright to install, repair, and dismantle heavy machinery in industrial settings. You will work with precision to align equipment, connect power units, test performance, and maintain critical components as part of a larger maintenance team.

Candidates typically have 3–5 years of Journeyman experience. No formal education minimum is required, and the company is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to safety and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Education – no minimum education requirements.
• Experience – 3–5 years of Journeyman level experience.
• Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Responsibilities

• Install, repair, replace and dismantle machinery and heavy equipment.
• Align machines and equipment using hoists, jacks, and measuring tools.
• Test units for mechanical operation and adjust clearances.
• Assemble and bolt components to foundations or structures.
• Dismantle machinery for shipment or on-site installation.
• Follow blueprint and schematic drawings to determine procedures.
• Ensure safety and proper operation in industrial settings.

Skills

Machinery installation

Blueprint reading

Rigging

Hand tools

Tools

Hoists & jacks

Measuring instruments

Power tools

Job description

About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service 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.

To learn more about us, visit https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/industrial.

Millwright

Must be able to install, repair, replace and dismantle the machinery and heavy equipment used in industrial settings. This is accomplished by performing the following essential duties and responsibilities. Other duties may be assigned.

• Replace defective parts of machine or adjust clearances and alignment of moving parts.
• Align machines and equipment, using hoists, jacks, hand tools, squares, rules, micrometers, and plumb bobs.
• Connect power unit to machines or steam piping to equipment, and test unit to evaluate its mechanical operation.
• Repair and lubricate machines and equipment.
• Assemble and install equipment, using hand tools and power tools.
• Position steel beams to support bedplates of machines and equipment, using blueprints and schematic drawings, to determine work procedures.
• Signal crane operator to lower basic assembly units to bedplate and align unit to centerline.
• Insert shims, adjust tension on nuts and bolts, or position parts, using hand tools and measuring instruments, to set specified clearances between moving and stationary parts.
• Move machinery and equipment, using hoists, dollies, rollers, and trucks.
• Attach moving parts and subassemblies to basic assembly unit, using hand tools and power tools.
• Assemble machines, and bolt, weld, rivet, or otherwise fasten them to foundation or other structures, using hand tools and power tools.
• Lay out mounting holes, using measuring instruments, and drill holes with power drill.
• Bolt parts, such as side and deck plates, jaw plates, and journals, to basic assembly unit.
• Level bedplate and establish centerline, using straightedge, levels, and transit.
• Dismantle machines, using hammers, wrenches, crowbars, and other hand tools.
• Shrink-fit bushings, sleeves, rings, liners, gears, and wheels to specified items, using portable gas heating equipment.
• Dismantle machinery and equipment for shipment to installation site, usually performing installation and maintenance work as part of team.
• Construct foundation for machines, using hand tools and building materials such as wood, cement, and steel.
• Operate engine lathe to grind, file, and turn machine parts to dimensional specifications.
• 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.

Qualifications Required For This Position

Education – no minimum education requirements.

Experience – 3-5 years of Journeyman level experience.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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

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.

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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