Boilermaker - Austin Industrial (Plaquemine, LA)
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Boilermaker - Austin Industrial (Plaquemine, LA)
Job Category : Hourly Craft
Requisition Number : BOILE030769
Posted : April 22, 2026
Full-Time
On-site
Locations
Showing 1 location
Plaquemine, LA, USA
Description
About Austin Industrial
Austin Industrial provides premier self‑perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single‑source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.
Construct, assemble, maintain, and repair stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries. Align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame tanks or vats, following blueprints. Work involves use of hand and power tools, plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles. Assist in testing assembled vessels. Engage in the direct cleaning of boilers and boiler furnaces. Inspect and repair boiler fittings, such as safety valves, regulators, automatic control mechanisms, water columns, and auxiliary machines. This is accomplished by performing the following essential duties and responsibilities. Other duties may be assigned.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
Examine boilers, pressure vessels, tanks or vats to locate defects, such as leaks, weak spots or defective sections, so that they can be repaired.
Bolt or arc weld pressure vessel structures and parts together, using wrenches or welding equipment.
Inspect assembled vessels or individual components, such as tubes, fittings, valves, controls or auxiliary mechanisms, to locate any defects.
Repair or replace defective pressure vessel parts, such as safety valves or regulators, using torches, jacks, caulking hammers, power saws, threading dies, welding equipment or metalworking machinery.
Attach rigging and signal crane or hoist operators to lift heavy frame and plate sections or other parts into place.
Bell, bead with power hammers or weld pressure vessel tube ends to ensure leakproof joints.
Lay out plate, sheet steel or other heavy metal and locate and mark bending and cutting lines, using protractors, compasses and drawing instruments or templates.
Install manholes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges or feedwater connections in drums of water tube boilers, using hand tools.
Study blueprints to determine locations, relationships or dimensions of parts.
Straighten or reshape bent pressure vessel plates or structural parts, using hammers, jacks or torches.
Shape seams, joints or irregular edges of pressure vessel sections or structural parts to attain specified fit of parts, using cutting torches, hammers files or metalworking machines.
Position, align and secure structural parts or related assemblies to boiler frames, tanks or vats of pressure vessels following blueprints.
Locate and mark reference points for columns or plates on boiler foundations following blueprints and using straightedges, squares, transits or measuring instruments.
Shape or fabricate parts, such as stacks, uptakes or chutes, to adapt pressure vessels, heat exchangers or piping to premises, using heavy metalworking machines such as brakes, rolls or drill presses.
Clean pressure vessel equipment using scrapers, wire brushes and cleaning solvents.
Install refractory bricks or other heat‑resistant materials in fireboxes of pressure vessels.
Assemble large vessels in an on‑site fabrication shop before installation to ensure proper fit.
Other duties as assigned.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Austin Industrial is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Qualifications Required for this Position
Experience : Minimum 4 years in industrial planning and scheduling
Certifications/Licenses : NCCER, a Valid TWIC Card and Driver's License.
Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Austin Industrial is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.
Equal Opportunity Employer. This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
Licenses & Certifications
NCCER-Ind BM Certified
TWIC Card
Valid Driver's License
Accessibility Note
If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs or have accessibility concerns, please contact the People Services Team at (877) 831-1217.
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Job Category : Hourly Craft
Requisition Number : BOILE030769
Posted : April 22, 2026
Full-Time
On-site
Locations
Showing 1 location
Plaquemine, LA, USA
Description
About Austin Industrial
Austin Industrial provides premier self‑perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single‑source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.
Construct, assemble, maintain, and repair stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries. Align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame tanks or vats, following blueprints. Work involves use of hand and power tools, plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles. Assist in testing assembled vessels. Engage in the direct cleaning of boilers and boiler furnaces. Inspect and repair boiler fittings, such as safety valves, regulators, automatic control mechanisms, water columns, and auxiliary machines. This is accomplished by performing the following essential duties and responsibilities. Other duties may be assigned.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
Examine boilers, pressure vessels, tanks or vats to locate defects, such as leaks, weak spots or defective sections, so that they can be repaired.
Bolt or arc weld pressure vessel structures and parts together, using wrenches or welding equipment.
Inspect assembled vessels or individual components, such as tubes, fittings, valves, controls or auxiliary mechanisms, to locate any defects.
Repair or replace defective pressure vessel parts, such as safety valves or regulators, using torches, jacks, caulking hammers, power saws, threading dies, welding equipment or metalworking machinery.
Attach rigging and signal crane or hoist operators to lift heavy frame and plate sections or other parts into place.
Bell, bead with power hammers or weld pressure vessel tube ends to ensure leakproof joints.
Lay out plate, sheet steel or other heavy metal and locate and mark bending and cutting lines, using protractors, compasses and drawing instruments or templates.
Install manholes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges or feedwater connections in drums of water tube boilers, using hand tools.
Study blueprints to determine locations, relationships or dimensions of parts.
Straighten or reshape bent pressure vessel plates or structural parts, using hammers, jacks or torches.
Shape seams, joints or irregular edges of pressure vessel sections or structural parts to attain specified fit of parts, using cutting torches, hammers files or metalworking machines.
Position, align and secure structural parts or related assemblies to boiler frames, tanks or vats of pressure vessels following blueprints.
Locate and mark reference points for columns or plates on boiler foundations following blueprints and using straightedges, squares, transits or measuring instruments.
Shape or fabricate parts, such as stacks, uptakes or chutes, to adapt pressure vessels, heat exchangers or piping to premises, using heavy metalworking machines such as brakes, rolls or drill presses.
Clean pressure vessel equipment using scrapers, wire brushes and cleaning solvents.
Install refractory bricks or other heat‑resistant materials in fireboxes of pressure vessels.
Assemble large vessels in an on‑site fabrication shop before installation to ensure proper fit.
Other duties as assigned.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Austin Industrial is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Qualifications Required for this Position
Experience : Minimum 4 years in industrial planning and scheduling
Certifications/Licenses : NCCER, a Valid TWIC Card and Driver's License.
Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Austin Industrial is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.
Equal Opportunity Employer. This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
Licenses & Certifications
NCCER-Ind BM Certified
TWIC Card
Valid Driver's License
Accessibility Note
If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs or have accessibility concerns, please contact the People Services Team at (877) 831-1217.
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