Job Description

ROLE PROFILE

The successful candidate will assemble, install, and repair boilers, vats, and other large vessels.

DUTIES

• Bell, bead with power hammers, or weld pressure vessel tube ends, in order to ensure leakproof joints.
• Bolt or arc-weld pressure vessel structures and parts together, using wrenches and welding equipment.
• Examine boilers, pressure vessels, tanks, and vats to locate defects such as leaks, weak spots, and defective sections so that they can be repaired.
• Inspect assembled vessels and individual components, such as tubes, fittings, valves, controls, and auxiliary mechanisms, to locate any defects.
• Install manholes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges, and feedwater connections in drums of water tube boilers, using hand tools.
• Install refractory bricks and other heat-resistant materials in fireboxes of pressure vessels.
• 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.
• Locate and mark reference points for columns or plates on boiler foundations, following blueprints and using straightedges, squares, transits, and measuring instruments.
• Position, align, and secure structural parts and related assemblies to boiler frames, tanks, or vats of pressure vessels, following blueprints.
• Repair or replace defective pressure vessel parts, such as safety valves and regulators, using torches, jacks, caulking hammers, power saws, threading dies, welding equipment, and metalworking machinery.
• Shape seams, joints, and irregular edges of pressure vessel sections and structural parts in order to attain specified fit of parts, using cutting torches, hammers, files, and metalworking machines.

Required Skills or Experience

• NVTI, Diploma or its equivalent.
• 3-5 years of experience in plumbing and Welding

REQUIREMENT

• Typically requires completion or enrollment in apprenticeship program.
• Has gained proficiency in multiple competencies relevant to the job.
• Physical stamina. Workers must have high endurance because they spend many hours on their feet while lifting heavy boiler components.
• Physical strength. Workers must be strong enough to move heavy vat components into place.
• Unafraid of confined spaces. Because workers often work inside boilers and vats, they cannot be claustrophobic.
• Unafraid of heights. Some boilermakers must work at great heights. While installing water storage tanks, for example, workers may need to weld tanks several stories above the ground.