Brown & Root Industrial Services, Llc
Provides integrated industrial services including engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance.
Boilermaker Lead
Assemble, inspect, and repair boilers, tanks, and pressure vessels per specifications.
Job Highlights
About the Role
Leadman provides leadership, instruction, and guidance to other craft workers in a work crew, assisting the foreman while working in the capacity of a journeyman. The role assembles, analyzes for defects, and repairs boilers, tanks, vats, and pressure vessels, including auxiliaries and ancillaries, according to blueprint specifications using power and hand tools. • Locate and mark reference points for columns or plates on foundations using straight edge, squares, transit, and measuring tape. • Attach rigging or signal crane operator to lift components to specified positions. • Align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frames, tanks, or vats using plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles. • Hammer, flame‑cut, file, and grind irregular edges of sections to facilitate fitting. • Position drums and headers onto supports and bolt or weld supports to the frame. • Align water tubes, connect and expand ends to drums and headers using a tube expander. • Perform minor maintenance or cleaning activities with tools and equipment. • Install manholes, handholds, valves, gauges, and feed‑water connections in drums to complete water‑tube boiler assemblies. • Signal crane operator to lift parts to specific positions. • Assist in testing assembled vessels by pumping water or gas under specified pressure and observing instruments for leaks. • Repair boilers or tanks in the field by unbolting or flame‑cutting defective sections, straightening plates, installing new tubes, fitting and welding new sections, and replacing worn bolt lugs. • Fasten and caulk vessel sections using pneumatic fasteners and caulking hammers. • Line fireboxes with refractory brick and blocks. • Fabricate parts such as stacks, uptakes, and chutes to adapt boilers to their installation premises. • Apply flame‑cutting techniques and torch knowledge. • Observe and comply with all safety and project rules. • Apply shop mathematics to solve problems. • Plan work and select proper tools. • Compare and discern differences in size, shape, and form of lines, figures, and objects. • Visualize objects in three dimensions from plans and drawings. • Make decisions based on measurable criteria.
Key Responsibilities
- ▸boiler assembly
- ▸flame cutting
- ▸tube alignment
- ▸welding repair
- ▸crane signalling
- ▸fabrication
What You Bring
May require a high school diploma or equivalent with prior experience in the field. The candidate should have knowledge of common concepts, practices, and procedures, rely on instructions and guidelines, and work under immediate supervision, typically reporting to a supervisor or manager. Physical demands include strength for standing, walking, sitting, lifting and carrying 50 lb, and pushing/pulling 70 ft‑lb, as well as frequent climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, handling, and fingering. • Bolt or arc‑weld structures and sections together. • Bolt or weld casing sections, uptakes, stacks, baffles, and fabricated parts such as chutes, air heaters, fan stands, feeding tubes, catwalks, ladders, coal hoppers, and safety hatches to the frame.
Requirements
- ▸welding
- ▸bolting
- ▸high school
- ▸field experience
- ▸heavy lifting
- ▸supervision
Benefits
Brown & Root Industrial Services is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration without regard to protected characteristics. Benefits include a 401(k) with company match, medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, flexible spending account, disability coverage, paid time off, flexible work schedules, and opportunities for professional training and development.
Work Environment
Field