Brown & Root Industrial Services, Llc
Provides integrated industrial services including engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance.
Boilermaker Lead
Lead journeyman assembling, repairing, and testing boilers, tanks, and pressure vessels.
Job Highlights
About the Role
Leadman provides leadership, instruction, and guidance to other craft workers in the work crew, assisting the Foreman while functioning as a journeyman. The role involves assembling, inspecting for defects, and repairing boilers, tanks, vats, and pressure vessels along with associated auxiliaries according to blueprint specifications, using both power and hand tools. • Locate and mark reference points on foundations using geometry tools. • Attach rigging or signal crane operator to lift components. • Align structures or plates for boiler, tank, or vat assembly using plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles. • Hammer, flame‑cut, file, and grind irregular edges to fit sections. • Position drums and headers, then bolt or weld supports to the frame. • Align water tubes and expand ends to drums and headers with a tube expander. • Perform minor maintenance and cleaning with tools and equipment. • Install manholes, handholds, valves, gauges, and feed‑water connections in drums. • Signal crane operator for precise part placement. • Assist in pressure testing vessels by pumping water or gas and monitoring for leaks. • Repair boilers or tanks in the field by unbolting, flame‑cutting, straightening, installing new tubes, and welding sections. • 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 installations. • Conduct flame cutting and torch operations safely. • Observe and comply with all safety and project regulations. • Apply shop mathematics to solve problems. • Plan work and select appropriate tools. • Identify differences in size, shape, and form of lines, figures, and objects. • Visualize three‑dimensional objects from plans and drawings. • Make decisions based on measurable criteria.
Key Responsibilities
- ▸boiler assembly
- ▸tube alignment
- ▸pressure testing
- ▸welding fabrication
- ▸safety compliance
- ▸lead supervision
What You Bring
Qualifications may include a high school diploma or equivalent combined with relevant field experience. The position relies on commonly‑used concepts, practices, and procedures within the trade, follows established guidelines, and typically works under immediate supervision without independent judgment, reporting to a supervisor or manager. • Bolt or arc‑weld structures and sections together. • Bolt or weld casing sections, uptakes, stacks, baffles and fabricated parts (chutes, air heaters, fan stands, feeding tubes, cat walks, ladders, coal hoppers, safety hatch) to the frame.
Requirements
- ▸bolt
- ▸weld
- ▸arc‑weld
- ▸high school
- ▸field experience
- ▸supervision
Benefits
Benefits include a competitive 401(k) with company match, medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, flexible spending accounts, disability coverage, paid time off, a flexible work schedule, and opportunities for professional training and career advancement.
Work Environment
Field