About This Role
This Boilermaker role involves leading a work crew, providing instruction and guidance to other craft workers, and assisting the Foreman while working as a journeyman. The core of the job is to assemble, analyze for defects, and repair boilers, tanks, vats, and pressure vessels according to blueprints and specifications.
Responsibilities
- Locate and mark reference points for columns or plates on foundations, using master straight edge, squares, transit, and measuring tape, applying knowledge of geometry
- Attach rigging or signal crane operator to lift components to specified positions
- Align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frames, tanks, or vats using plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles
- Hammer, flame-cut, file, and grind irregular edges of sections or structural parts to facilitate fitting edges together
- Bolt or arc-weld structures and sections together
- Position drums and headers into supports or bolt or weld supports to frames
- Align water tubes, connect and expand ends to drums and headers using a tube expander
- Bolt or weld casing sections, uptakes, stacks, baffles, and fabricated parts such as chutes, air heaters, fan stands, feeding tubes, catwalks, ladders, coal hoppers, and safety hatches to frames using wrenches
- Perform minor maintenance or cleaning activities with tools and equipment
- Install manholes, handholds, valves, gauges, and feed water connections in drums to complete assembly of water tube boilers
- Signal crane operator in lifting parts to specific positions
- Assist in testing assembled vessels by pumping water or gas under specified pressure into vessels and observing instruments for evidence of leakage
- Repair boilers or tanks in the field by unbolting or flame cutting defective sections or tubes, straightening plates using a torch or jacks, installing new tubes, fitting and welding new sections, and replacing worn lugs on bolts
- Fasten and caulk sections of vessels, using pneumatic fasteners and caulking hammers
- Line fireboxes with refractory brick and blocks
- Fabricate parts such as stacks, uptakes, and chutes to adapt boilers to premises in which they are installed
- Use flame cutting and have knowledge of torch use
- Observe and comply with all safety and project rules
- Perform other duties as required
Requirements
- Work within precise limits or standards of accuracy
- Apply shop mathematics to solve problems
- Plan work and select proper tools
- Compare and see differences in the size, shape, and form of lines, figures, and objects
- Visualize objects in three dimensions from plans and drawings
