Boilermaker

Job Highlights

Company Profile

Bilfinger is a leading global provider of industrial services, offering a comprehensive portfolio that includes manufacturing, consulting, engineering, assembly, maintenance, plant expansion, turnarounds, environmental technologies, and digital solutions.

Job Profile

The company is searching for a Boilermaker who will assemble, analyze defects in, and repair boilers, pressure vessels, tanks, and vats in the field, following blueprints and using hand tools and portable power tools, and equipment.

Education Level

• Not mentioned, a High School Diploma (a plus)

Work Experience

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience as a Boilermaker

Duties/Responsibilities

• Align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frames, tanks, or vats, using plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles.
• Align water tubes, connections, and expand ends to drums and headers, using a tube expander.
• Assists in testing assembled vessels by pumping water or gas under specified pressure into vessels and observing instruments for evidence of leakage.
• Attaches rigging or signals the crane operator in the lift parts to the specified position.
• Bells, beads with power hammer, or weld tube ends to ensure leak-proof joints.
• Bolts or arc-welds structures and sections together. Positions drums and headers into supports or bolts or welds supports to the frame.
• Bolts or welds casing sections, uptakes, stacks, baffles, and such fabricated parts as chutes, air heaters, fan stands, feeding tubes, catwalks, ladders, coal hoppers, and safety hatches to frame, using a wrench.
• Hammers, flame-cuts, files, or grinds irregular edges of sections or structural parts to facilitate fitting edges together.
• Installs manholes, valves, gages, and feed water connections in drums to complete the assembly of water tube boilers.
• Locates and marks reference points for columns or plates on foundation, using master straightedge, squares, transit, and measuring tape, and applying knowledge of geometry.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Apply shop mathematics to solve problems.
• Compare and see differences in the size, shape, and form of lines, figures, and objects;
• Perform a variety of duties, which may change often, and rate information using
• Picture solid objects from drawings or diagrams.
• Plan work and select proper tools.
• standards that can be measured or checked.
• Work within precise limits or standards of accuracy.

Work Environment

• Climb and maintain balance on scaffolds and ladders
• Lift and carry objects weighing up to 50 pounds
• Reach for, handle, and manipulate objects and materials
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl, and see well (either naturally or with correction).

Employer’s Statement

Bilfinger is an Equal Opportunity Employer.