Boilermaker - Austin Industrial; Channelview, TX

Boilermaker - Austin Industrial (Channelview, TX)

Job Category
:
Craft

Requisition Number
: BOILE
028833

• Posted:
  January 13, 2026
• Full-Time
• On‑Site

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Channelview, TX, USA

About Austin Industrial

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

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. Work involves use of hand and power tools, plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles. Assist in testing assembled vessels. свидетельствовать in the direct cleaning of boilers and furnace. Inspect and repair boiler fittings, such as safety valves, regulators, automatic control mechanisms, water columns, and auxiliary machines.

This is accomplished by performing the following essential duties and responsibilities. Other duties may be assigned.

Specific

Duties and Responsibilities:

• 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 such as tubes, fittings, valves, controls, or auxiliary mechanisms to locate any 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 place.
• 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 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 of parts 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 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, trainingen 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 Industries is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly

LX required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl;…