Specialty Pipefitter/Rigger

Specialty Pipefitter/Rigger Job Highlights

Company Profile

Koch Industries is one of the largest private companies in America. The company has a diverse set of businesses and industries across the world. It offers abundant opportunities to improve life’s most necessary things – like food, clothing, water, transportation, and technology.

Koch Specialty Plant Services (KSPS) is a world leader in providing tower, vessel, and mass transfer equipment services to the refining and chemical industry.

Job Profile

The company (KSPS) is looking to hire a Pipefitter to join its team for various client sites within the U.S.

Educational Qualification

• No education level is mentioned, yet having a High School Diploma will be a plus

Work Experience

• Must have at least 2 to 3 years of journeyman pipefitter/rigger experience

Credible Things

• 10+ years of experience as a journeyman pipefitter/rigger
• 2 to 3 years of experience in furnace/reformer tube removal and replacement
• 2 to 3 years of experience operating tugger beam tube extractor
• Basic Plus Orientation and Confined Space Training
• Previous experience in a heavy industrial construction environment
• Strong knowledge of P&IDs, ISO’s, and orthographic drawings
• Successful completion of a Pipe Fitter or Rigger NCCER craft assessment test
• Vocational training

Duties/Responsibilities

• Able to position and clamp together components of fabricated metal products to prepare for welding.
• Assemble and secure pipes, tubes, fittings, and related equipment according to specifications by welding and threading joints without errors.
• Basic knowledge of P&IDs, ISOs, orthographic drawings, and other piping-related drawings.
• General knowledge of flange isolations including blinding, opening, modification, and repair of piping systems.
• Manually handling and securely applying rigging equipment.
• Must be able to bevel pipe by hand or with a beveling machine.
• Operate tools and equipment including beveling machines, cut-off grinders, hammers, oxygen acetylene/map gas torches, magnetic drills, and a Saw-Zall.
• Perform Burner extraction and installation.
• Perform crane signaling/flagging to extract or install equipment.
• Possess skilled knowledge of pipe fittings, bolts, valves, etc. as required.
• Read isometric drawings, take measurements, and fabricate and install piping efficiently and without errors.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Ability to read, write, and speak in English
• Able to read and interpret engineering drawings/blueprints, ISOs, P&IDs and can utilize them to identify and properly install associated piping
• Must be able to meet all physical and work environment requirements
• Must be able to provide your own transportation to job locations throughout the US
• Must be willing and able to meet all Company and Customer project entry requirements including training, background check, and drug test
• Must have current TWIC Card or ability to obtain one if required

Physical Demands

• Candidates must also be capable of climbing ladders, and scaffolds, and working at heights.
• Candidates must be able to lift and carry up to 50 lbs., unassisted.
• Candidates must be able to work long hours and all shift schedules that may require up to twelve hours a day, seven days a week for extended durations.
• Good manual dexterity for the use of common hand tools, and power tools and the ability to navigate around obstacles in a petrochemical environment are necessary.
• Must be able to perform work wearing personal protective equipment including but not limited to rain gear, chemical protective clothing, supplied air and air-purifying respirators, safety harnesses, FRC coveralls, hard hats, ear plugs, and safety glasses, etc.
• Respiratory Protection Fit-Testing and Pulmonary Function Testing are required. Additional examinations, such as a pre-employment physical, hearing, or vision test may be required per client guidelines.

Benefits/Perks

• The company offers benefit plans that include medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, and educational assistance.
• They may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance.

Employer’s Statement

• Koch Industries is an Equal Opportunity Employer – disability and protected veteran status.