How do they match: Boilermakers

  • Boiler Installer

  • 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. 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.

  • 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.
  • Install manholes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges, or feedwater connections in drums of water tube boilers, using hand tools.
  • 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.
  • Bolt or arc weld pressure vessel structures and parts together, using wrenches or welding equipment.
  • Clean pressure vessel equipment, using scrapers, wire brushes, and cleaning solvents.
  • Examine boilers, pressure vessels, tanks, or vats to locate defects, such as leaks, weak spots, or defective sections, so that they can be repaired.

  • Install gauges or controls.
  • Install masonry materials.
  • Install metal structural components.
  • Assemble products or production equipment.
  • Clean equipment or facilities.
  • Inspect industrial or commercial equipment to ensure proper operation.
  • Maintain mechanical equipment.
  • Measure materials or objects for installation or assembly.
  • Operate cranes, hoists, or other moving or lifting equipment.
  • Signal equipment operators to indicate proper equipment positioning.