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. 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.

Other names for Boilermakers: Assembler, Boiler Erector, Boiler Fitter, Boiler Installer, Boiler Maker, Boiler Mechanic, Boiler Reliner, Boiler Setter, Boiler Shop Mechanic, Boiler Technician, Boiler Tester, Boiler Welder, Boilerhouse Mechanic, Boilermaker, Boilermaker Apprentice, Boilermaker Fitter, Boilermaker Mechanic, Boilermaker Pipe Fitter, Boilermaker Welder, Erector, Fitter, Fitter Up, Locomotive Boilermaker, Manufacturing Assembler, Pressure Tester, Service Technician, Welder,

• Examine boilers, pressure vessels, tanks, and vats to locate defects such as leaks, weak spots, and defective sections so that they can be repaired.
• Bolt or arc-weld pressure vessel structures and parts together, using wrenches and welding equipment.
• Inspect assembled vessels and individual components, such as tubes, fittings, valves, controls, and auxiliary mechanisms, to locate any defects.
• Repair or replace defective pressure vessel parts, such as safety valves and regulators, using torches, jacks, caulking hammers, power saws, threading dies, welding equipment, and metalworking machinery.
• Attach rigging, and signal crane or hoist operators to lift heavy frame and plate sections and other parts into place.
• Bell, bead with power hammers, or weld pressure vessel tube ends, in order 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, and feedwater connections in drums of water tube boilers, using hand tools.
• Study blueprints to determine locations, relationships, and dimensions of parts.
• Straighten or reshape bent pressure vessel plates and structure parts, using hammers, jacks, and torches.
• Shape seams, joints, and irregular edges of pressure vessel sections and structural parts in order to attain specified fit of parts, using cutting torches, hammers, files, and metalworking machines.
• Position, align, and secure structural parts and 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, and measuring instruments.
• Shape and fabricate parts, such as stacks, uptakes, and chutes, in order to adapt pressure vessels, heat exchangers, and piping to premises, using heavy-metalworking machines such as brakes, rolls, and drill presses.
• Clean pressure vessel equipment, using scrapers, wire brushes, and cleaning solvents.
• Install refractory bricks and other heat-resistant materials in fireboxes of pressure vessels.
• Assemble large vessels in an on-site fabrication shop prior to installation, in order to ensure proper fit.

• Blow torches
• Welding tools
• Adjustable wrenches
• Pipe wrenches
• Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus
• Air compressors
• Pneumatic grinders
• Pneumatic hammer
• Air manifolds
• Pneumatic sanding machines
• Hex keys
• Multi gas monitors
• Air samplers or collectors
• Hammers
• Hand clamps
• Below the hook device
• Girder trolleys
• Lathes
• Bench vises
• Pneumatic grinders
• Punches or nail sets or drifts
• Blocks or pulleys
• Bolt cutters
• Hydraulic truck cranes
• Box end wrenches
• Workshop presses
• Power buffers
• Form tools or toolbits
• C clamps
• Calipers
• Single gas monitors
• Hand sprayers
• Caulking guns
• Punches or nail sets or drifts
• Hoists
• Hoists
• Blocks or pulleys
• Specialty wrenches
• Chalk lines
• Locking pliers
• Power chippers
• Power saws
• Hammers
• Safety glasses
• Squares
• Combination wrenches
• Compasses
• Welding robots
• Metal markers or holders
• Power saws
• Blow torches
• Desktop computers
• Lasers
• Levels
• Compasses
• Punches or nail sets or drifts
• Gauges or inspection fixtures
• Workshop presses
• Masks or accessories
• Ear plugs
• Welders
• Electrode holders
• Welding tools
• End cut pliers
• Levels
• Files
• Safety glasses
• Fire extinguishers
• Fire retardant apparel
• Tube end finishers
• Welding tools
• Forklifts
• Squares
• Lighters
• Safety harnesses or belts
• Respirators
• Welding tools
• Saws
• Respirators
• Specialty wrenches
• Saws
• Hard hats
• Laboratory heaters
• Workshop cranes
• Jacks
• Pullers
• Pressure indicators
• Magnifiers
• Power saws
• Ladders
• Levels
• Hammers
• Protective coveralls
• Longnose pliers
• Tape measures
• Metal inert gas MIG welding machinery
• Cold chisels
• Tinners snips
• Micrometers
• Milling machines
• Pressure indicators
• Nibblers
• Hammers
• Open end wrenches
• Hoists
• Single gas monitors
• Blow torches
• Personal computers
• Punches or nail sets or drifts
• Pipe or tube cutters
• Pipe vises
• Plasma welding machinery
• Loading equipment
• Plumb bobs
• Pneumatic drill
• Hoists
• Pneumatic impact wrenches
• Power grinders
• Power saws
• Blow torches
• Protective gloves
• Protractors
• Pry bars
• Workshop presses
• Putty knives
• Power saws
• Welding tools
• Resin guns
• Respirators
• Safety glasses
• Goggles
• Pneumatic sanding machines
• Scaffolding
• Scales
• Scissor lift
• Jacks
• Screwdrivers
• Scribers
• Respiration air supplying self contained breathing apparatus or accessories
• Cold chisels
• Lifts
• Shears
• End cut pliers
• Hammers
• Bevels
• Slings
• Slip or groove joint pliers
• Socket sets
• Hammers
• Levels
• Cold chisels
• Below the hook device
• Specialty wrenches
• Squares
• Platform lift
• Jacks
• Welding electrodes
• Straight edges
• Strap wrenches
• Platform lift
• Loading equipment
• Taps or dies
• Gauges or inspection fixtures
• Telescoping boom lift
• Temperature indicating sticks
• Torque wrenches
• Level sensors or transmitters
• Punches or nail sets or drifts
• Tube end finishers
• Milling machines
• Sequential forming machines
• Reamers
• Tungsten inert gas TIG welding machinery
• Two way radios
• Hoists
• Utility knives
• Fans
• Calipers
• Locking pliers
• Levels
• Wedges
• Welding generators
• Welders
• Welding masks
• Welding or brazing tip cleaner files
• Welding or cutting tips
• Wire brushes
• Loading equipment
• Workshop cranes
• X ray radiography examination equipment

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