NCCER Boilermaker - Austin Industrial; Corpus Christi, TX

NCCER Boilermaker – Austin Industrial (Corpus Christi, TX)

Join to apply for the NCCER Boilermaker – Austin Industrial (Corpus Christi, TX) role at Austin Bridge & Road
. This position involves constructing, assembling, maintaining, and repairing stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries, following blueprints and industry standards.

• Examine boilers, pressure vessels, tanks, or vats to locate defects such as leaks, weak spots, or defective sections to determine repair requirements.
• Bolt or arc weld pressure vessel structures and parts together using appropriate tools and welding equipment.
• Inspect assembled vessels or individual components—including tubes, fittings, valves, controls, and auxiliary mechanisms—to identify defects.
• 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.
• Attach rigging and signal crane or hoist operators to lift heavy frame and plate sections or other parts into position.
• Bell, bead with power hammers, or weld pressure vessel tube ends to ensure leakproof joints.
• Lay out plate, sheet steel, or other heavy metal and locate 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 water-tube boiler drums 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 achieve the 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 prior to installation to ensure proper fit.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States;
  Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

The physical demands of this role include frequent sitting, standing, walking, climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and reaching with hands and arms. The employee regularly lifts and/or moves 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 the ability to adjust focus.

• Education:
  
  no minimum education requirements.
• Certification/License: NCCER Boilermaker certification and a valid driver’s license.
• Experience:
  
  3–5 years of journeyman-level experience in boiler repair or construction.

Austin Industries engages in civil, commercial, and industrial construction, operating as a large, diversified firm owned entirely by its employees through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Visit  for more information on our history, culture, and operations.