Boilermaker Apprentice Jobs

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Bolts or arc-welds structures and sections together. Positions drums and headers into supports or bolts or welds supports to frame
• Performs minor maintenance or cleaning activities with tools and equipment
• May fabricate parts such as, stacks, uptakes, and chutes to adapt boiler to premises in which it is installed
• Signals crane operator in lifting parts to specific positions
• Bolts or welds casing sections, uptakes, stacks, baffles and such fabricated parts as chutes, air heaters, fan stands, feeding tube, cat walks, ladders, coal hoppers and safety hatch to frame using wrenches
• Aligns structures or plates sections to assemble boiler frame, tanks or vats sing plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs or turnbuckles
• Responsible for observing and complying with all safety and project rules. Performs other duties as required
• Hammers, flame-cuts, files grinds irregular edges of sections or structural parts to facilitate fitting edges together
• Aligns water tubes, connects and expands ends to drums and headers using tube expander
• Assists in testing assembled vessels by pumping water or gas under specified pressure into vessels and observing instruments for evidence of leakage
• Repairs boilers or tanks in field by unbolting or flame cutting defective sections or tubes, straightening plates using torch or jacks, installing new tubes, fitting and welding new sections and replacing worn lugs on bolts
• Flame cutting and knowledge of torch use
• Installs manholes, handholds, valves, gauges and feed water connection in drums to complete assembly of water tube boilers
• May fasten and caulk sections of vessels, using pneumatic fasteners and caulking hammers
• Attaches rigging or signals crane operator to lift components to specified position
• Locates and marks reference points for columns or plates on foundation, sing master straight edge, squares, transit and measuring tape and applying knowledge of geometry
• May line firebox with refractory brick and blocks

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Works under immediate supervision
• Relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job
• May require a high school diploma or its equivalent with previous years of experience in the field or in a related area Has knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field
• Primary job functions do not typically require exercising independent judgment