Boilermakers

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.

Job Task

• Straightens or reshapes bent pressure vessel plates and structure parts, using hammer, jacks, and torch.
• Bells, beads with power hammer, or welds pressure vessel tube ends to ensure leakproof joints.
• Maintains and repairs stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries, using hand tools and power tools.
• Repairs insulation of pressure vessel with cement.
• Locates and marks reference points for columns or plates on foundation, using master straightedge, square, transit and measuring instruments.
• Fabricates parts, such as stacks, uptakes, and chutes, to adapt pressure vessel to premises.
• Attaches rigging and signals crane operator to lift pressure vessel parts to specified position.
• Repairs or replaces defective pressure vessel parts, using torch, jacks, caulking hammers, power saw, threading die, and welding equipment.
• Inspects assembled vessels for faulty accessories and pressure tests for leakage.
• Installs manholes, handholes, valves, gauges, and feedwater connections in drums of water tube boilers, using hand tools.
• Cleans pressure vessel equipment, using scrapers, wire brush and cleaning solvent.
• Installs refractory brick and other heat resistant materials in firebox of pressure vessel.
• Studies blueprints to determine location, relationship and dimensions of parts, to assemble pressure vessels, such as boilers, tanks and vats.
• Shapes seams, joints, and irregular edges of pressure vessel sections and structural parts to attain specified fit, using cutting torch, file, and power grinder.
• Positions, aligns, and secures structural parts and related assemblies of pressure vessels, using plumb bobs, levels, wedges and turnbuckles.
• Bolts or arc-welds pressure vessel structures and parts together, using wrenches and welding equipment.

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