Brown & Root Industrial Services, Llc
Provides integrated industrial services including engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance.
Boilermaker Journeyman
Assemble, install, and maintain boiler systems using welding, rigging, and precision layout.
Job Highlights
About the Role
The role involves locating reference points, rigging and signaling crane operators, aligning and assembling boiler frames, tanks, and related structures, performing cutting, grinding, bolting, and welding, installing components such as valves and gauges, testing vessels for leaks, and repairing boilers or tanks on site. • Locate and mark reference points for columns or plates on foundations using geometry tools. • 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 to facilitate fitting. • Position drums and headers into supports and bolt or weld them to the frame. • Align water tubes, connect and expand ends to drums and headers with a tube expander. • Perform minor maintenance or cleaning activities with tools and equipment. • Install manholes, handholds, valves, gauges, and feed‑water connections in drums for water‑tube boiler assembly. • Assist in testing assembled vessels by pumping water or gas under 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, and welding new 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 installation premises. • 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
- ▸reference marking
- ▸crane rigging
- ▸structure alignment
- ▸flame cutting
- ▸tube installation
- ▸leak testing
What You Bring
Journeyman candidates typically have three or more years of documented field experience in their craft discipline and are capable of reading and interpreting instructions, as well as documenting, planning, and performing work activities independently. Applicants must work to precise standards, apply shop mathematics, plan tasks and select the proper tools, compare dimensions, visualize three‑dimensional objects from drawings, make decisions based on measurable criteria, and be comfortable working at heights. Physical demands include standing, walking, and sitting for the majority of the shift, lifting and carrying up to 50 lb, pushing and pulling with up to 70 ft‑lb of force, frequent climbing and balancing, and occasional stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, handling, and fingering motions. • 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. • Utilize flame cutting and torch operation knowledge.
Requirements
- ▸welding
- ▸bolting
- ▸flame cutting
- ▸journeyman
- ▸shop math
- ▸heights
Benefits
Brown & Root Industrial Services is an equal‑opportunity employer offering competitive lifestyle benefits such as a 401(k) with company match, medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, flexible spending accounts, disability, paid time off, a flexible work schedule, and opportunities for professional training and career advancement.
Work Environment
Field