Boilermaker Helper - Houston, United States - Ausitn Industrial

Ausitn Industrial

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Houston, United States

3 days ago

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Description

Boilermaker Helper

Assists the Boilermaker in construction, assembly, maintenance, and repair of stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries.

Align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame tanks or vats, based on the instruction of the Boiler Maker.

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.

Assists in the inspection 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:

Convoys tools, equipment and parts to the work area.
Cleans work areas and places salvageable material in bins.
Attach rigging and signal crane or hoist operators to lift heavy frame and plate sections or other parts into place.
Bolts or unbolts assemblies using hand tools.
May install packings, catalysts and desiccants in vessels.
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.
Lay out plate, sheet steel, or other heavy metal.
Install manholes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges, or feedwater connections in drums of water tube boilers, using hand tools.
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.
Shape or fabricate parts, such as stacks, uptakes, or chutes, to adapt pressure vessels, heat exchangers, or piping to premises, using heavymetalworking machines such as brakes, rolls, or drill presses.
Clean pressure vessel equipment, using scrapers, wire brushes, and cleaning solvents.
Install refractory bricks or other heatresistant materials in fireboxes of pressure vessels.
Assemble large vessels in an onsite fabrication shop prior to installation to ensure proper fit.
Other duties as assigned.

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.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Education - no minimum education requirements.

Certifications/ Licenses:
TWIC Card and Driver's License

Experience - 6+ months experience in an Industrial setting preferred.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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