Boilermaker - Austin Industrial; Channelview, TX

Austin Industrial provides premier self‑perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S., serving the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries for over 60 years. We offer single‑source solutions to our customers.

Construct, 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. Use hand and power tools, plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles. Assist in testing assembled vessels and engage 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.

• Examine boilers, pressure vessels, tanks, or vats to locate defects such as leaks, weak spots, or defective sections.
• Bolt or arc weld pressure vessel structures and parts together using wrenches or welding equipment.
• Inspect assembled vessels or individual components—tubes, fittings, valves, controls, or auxiliary mechanisms—to locate defects.
• Repair or replace defective pressure vessel parts 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 leak‑proof joints.
• Lay out plate, sheet steel, or other heavy metal 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 structural parts using hammers, jacks, or torches.
• Shape seams, joints, or irregular edges of pressure vessel sections or structural parts to attain specified fit 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 Industrial does not sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Regularly required to sit, stand, walk, climb, or balance; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. Must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Reasonable accommodations may be provided for individuals with disabilities.

• No minimum education requirements.
• 4 years of journeyman‑level experience.
• Certification/License: NCCER, a valid driver’s license, and a TWIC card.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.