BOILERMAKER - Austin Industrial - Westlake, La

Austin External
Lake Charles, LA
Job Description
Boilermaker position involves constructing, assembling, maintaining, and repairing stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries.

Requirements

  • Examine boilers, pressure vessels, tanks, or vats to locate defects
  • Bolt or arc welds pressure vessel structures and parts together
  • Inspect assembled vessels or individual components to locate any defects
  • Repair or replace defective pressure vessel parts
  • Attach rigging and signal crane or hoist operators to lift heavy frame and plate sections
  • 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
  • Install manholes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges, or feedwater connections in drums of water tube boilers
  • 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
  • Position, align, and secure structural parts or related assemblies to boiler frames, tanks, or vats of pressure vessels
  • 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
  • Clean pressure vessel equipment, using scrapers, wire brushes, and cleaning solvents
  • Install refractory bricks or other heat-resistant materials in fireboxes of pressure vessels

Benefits

  • Paid time off
  • 401(k) matching
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Flexible spending account
  • Employee assistance program
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