Boilermaker Lead (Freeport, TX) Austin Industrial

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 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 before installation to ensure proper fit.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin Industries 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: 3years of Journeyman-level experience.

Certification/License : NCCER and a Valid Drivers License

Physical Mental & Environmental Requirements

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Employees must be able to sit stand walk climb balance stoop kneel crouch crawl reach and use hands and fingers to perform assigned duties. Positions may require lifting carrying pushing or pulling up to 50 pounds working at elevations on uneven surfaces or in confined spaces. Employees must possess sufficient visual hearing communication and motor skills to safely perform job responsibilities.

Employees must be able to read comprehend and follow safety procedures work instructions and company policies; exercise sound judgment; solve problems; maintain attention to detail; effectively manage stress; and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment.

Work may be performed in industrial and construction environments with exposure to weather conditions temperature extremes noise dust fumes moving equipment vibration and other site-specific hazards. Employees must be able to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE) and meet all customer site regulatory medical and fitness-for-duty requirements applicable to the position.

Must be able to perform all job duties while maintaining a constant commitment to safety quality and productivity expectations.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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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 Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so ( i.e. payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.

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