Location
Savannah, GA | United States
Job description
Location : IP Savannah Georgia
Local Only No Per Diem
Position Summary:
Assembles, analyzes defects in, and repairs boilers, pressure vessels, tanks, and vats in the field, following blueprints and using hand tools and portable power tools and equipment.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Locates and marks reference points for columns or plates on foundation, using master straightedge, squares, transit, and measuring tape, and applying knowledge of geometry.
- Attaches rigging or signals crane operator in lift parts to specified position.
- Align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame, tanks, or vats, using plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles.
- Hammers, flame-cuts, files, or grinds irregular edges of sections or structural pats to facilitate fitting edges together.
- Bolts or arc-welds structures and sections together. Positions drums and headers into supports or bolts or welds supports to frame.
- Align water tubes, connects, and expands ends to drums and headers, using tube expander.
- Bells, beads with power hammer, or welds tube ends to insure leak proof joints.
- Bolts or welds casing sections, uptakes, stacks, baffles, and such fabricated parts as chutes, air heaters, fan stands, feeding tube, catwalks, ladders, coal hoppers, and safety hatch to frame, using wrench.
- Installs manholes, valves, gages, and feed water connection in drums to complete assembly of water tube boilers.
- Assists in testing assembled vessels by pumping water or gas under specified pressure into vessels and observing instruments for evidence of leakage.
Basic Qualifications:
- Min 3-5 years of experience as a Boilermaker
- Workers should be able to:
- Work within precise limits or standards of accuracy.
- Apply shop mathematics to solve problems.
- Plan work and select proper tools.
- Compare and see differences in the size, shape, and form of lines, figures, and objects; Picture solid objects from drawings or diagrams.
- Perform a variety of duties, which may change often; and rate information using standards that can be measured or checked.
- Physically, workers must be able to:
- Climb and maintain balance on scaffolds and ladders
- Reach for, handle, and manipulate objects and materials
- Lift and carry objects weighing up to 50 pounds
- Stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl, and see well (either naturally or with correction).
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