Boilermaker jobs in Virginia

Boilermaker builds, repairs, tests, and maintains all types of boilers and high pressure vessels. Tests for structural soundness and inspects fittings, feed pumps, safety and check valves, water and pressure gauges, and controls to ensure boilers operate safely and efficiently. Being a Boilermaker reads and uses blueprints to determine locations, positions, or dimensions of parts. Requires a high school diploma or equivalent. Additionally, Boilermaker typically reports to a supervisor or manager. The Boilermaker works under moderate supervision. Gaining or has attained full proficiency in a specific area of discipline. To be a Boilermaker typically requires 1-3 years of related experience. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)

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Boilermaker
  • ShipyardStaffing LLC.
  • Norfolk, VA TEMPORARY
  • The experienced boilermaker, with a minimum of 8 years of experience, is responsible for comprehending and utilizing blueprints, sketches, drawings, technical manuals, and work process instructions to install, and repair boilers, and other pressure vessels. This position reports directly to the Leadman or Foreman as assigned.

    Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
    This position is responsible for the following: Other duties may be assigned.
    • Test and inspect boiler systems for leaks or defects
    • Replace or repair valves, using hand and power tools.
    • Be experienced in using gas torches.
    • Cleaning of boilers and boiler furnaces.
    • Inspect assembled vessels and individual components, such as tubes, fittings, valves, controls, and auxiliary mechanisms, to locate any defects.
    • Install manholes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges, and feedwater connections in drums of water tube boilers, using hand tools.
    • Clean pressure vessel equipment, using scrapers, wire brushes, and cleaning solvents.
    • Install refractory brick in fireboxes.
    • Use blueprints to determine locations, positions, or dimensions of parts.
    • Ability to read, interpret and follow procedures. Competent in reading and understanding specifications and drawings.
    • Wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) appropriate to current or daily job duties
    • Be fit for a respirator
    • Able to constantly climb stairs and ladders, up to 200 rungs/steps per hour
    • Access confined spaces.
    • Complies with the highest level of safety during all stages of project execution to avoid any type of incidents and or accidents.
    • Walk to, from, and between assigned work areas throughout the scheduled shift.
    • Endure noise, fumes, dust, and inclement weather.
    • Work overtime as needed to meet production demands

    Required Education and Experience:
    • Must possess 8 years of Boiler, heat exchanger, and valve repair experience.
    • Ability to obtain DBIDS/TWIC credentials.

    Working Conditions:
    • Open-air conditions such as noise, hot, and cold, as well as in an office-controlled environment.
    • May have to visit projects aboard ships, rigs both on and offshore as well as confined spaces. You must wear hearing, eye, and head protection and proper PPE when required.
    • Visits may require standing on a variety of surfaces and at differing angles, bending over, crouching, and climbing up and over obstructions such as scaffolding, ladders, and internal barge and boat structural members.
    • Some travel required

    Shipyard Staffing is an EEO/AA/Disability/Vets Employer.
  • 20 Days Ago

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Boilermaker
  • Walashek
  • Norfolk, VA FULL_TIME
  • The experienced boilermaker, with a minimum of 8 years of experience, is responsible for comprehending and utilizing blueprints, sketches, drawings, technical manuals, and work process instructions to...
  • 22 Days Ago

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Boilermaker
  • Shipyard Staffing LLC
  • Norfolk, VA FULL_TIME
  • The experienced boilermaker, with a minimum of 8 years of experience, is responsible for comprehending and utilizing blueprints, sketches, drawings, technical manuals, and work process instructions to...
  • 3 Days Ago

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Boilermaker
  • Riddleberger Brothers Inc
  • Mount Crawford, VA FULL_TIME
  • Riddleberger Brothers, Inc. is seeking to hire a talented and growth-minded individual to join our team as a Boilermaker. We offer career opportunities that allow you to be part of a team and grow as ...
  • 10 Days Ago

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Boilermaker (FT)
  • ShipyardStaffing LLC.
  • Norfolk, VA FULL_TIME
  • The experienced boilermaker, with a minimum of 8 years of experience, is responsible for comprehending and utilizing blueprints, sketches, drawings, technical manuals, and work process instructions to...
  • 2 Days Ago

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Boilermaker (Temp)
  • Shipyard Staffing LLC
  • Norfolk, VA TEMPORARY
  • The experienced boilermaker is responsible for comprehending and utilizing blueprints, sketches, drawings, technical manuals, and work process instructions to install, and repair boilers, and other pr...
  • 11 Days Ago

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Boilermaker Journeyman
  • Brown & Root
  • Pasadena, TX
  • Job Description SUMMARY Journeyman - Typically 3 years and above documented field experience in chosen craft discipline ...
  • 3/29/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Boilermaker Foreman
  • Bechtel Corporation
  • Corpus Christi, TX
  • **11894BR** **Job Title:** Boilermaker Foreman **Job Description:** 1. Identify practices and conditions that are safe a...
  • 3/29/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Boilermaker
  • AtWork Group
  • Corpus Christi, TX
  • Boilermaker - Assist with tasks required to repair, retube, rebuild and fabricate shell and tube heat exchangers in the ...
  • 3/29/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Boilermaker - Welder - Apprentice
  • R. F. MacDonald Co.
  • Modesto, CA
  • Job Type Full-time Description Position: BOILERMAKER - WELDER - APPRENTICE Classification: FULL-TIME / NON-EXEMPT Summar...
  • 3/29/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Boilermaker
  • Industrial Boiler & Mechanical Company
  • Chattanooga, TN
  • Job Description Job Description The job being offered is for a boilermaker (boiler mechanic) with experience with fittin...
  • 3/28/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Boilermaker
  • AtWork Group
  • Corpus Christi, TX
  • Boilermaker - Assist with tasks required to repair, retube, rebuild and fabricate shell and tube heat exchangers in the ...
  • 3/28/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Foreman Boilermaker
  • Zachry Holdings, Inc.
  • Port Sulphur, LA
  • Position Responsibilities: Supervise and oversee outage work Other duties as assigned
  • 3/28/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Boilermaker
  • Becker Boiler Co Inc
  • Milwaukee, WI
  • Job Description Job Description Boilermaker mechanic skill set, stick, mig , welding. Help with full boiler installation...
  • 3/25/2024 12:00:00 AM

Virginia (/vərˈdʒɪniə/ (listen)), officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" due to its status as the first English colonial possession established in mainland North America and "Mother of Presidents" because eight U.S. presidents were born there, more than any other state. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, which provide habitat for much of ...
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Income Estimation for Boilermaker jobs
$37,159 to $51,200

Boilermaker in Santa Cruz, CA
Job titles and exact tasks vary in this work and examples of some occupation titles are boilermaker, metal fabricator, brass finisher and metal template maker.
October 31, 2019
Boilermaker in Charleston, SC
The involvement of boilermakers in the shipbuilding and engineering industries came about because of the changeover from wood to iron as a construction material.
December 20, 2019
Boilermaker in Lexington, KY
For instance, if the boilermakers are working in an industry segment that deals with milk production, they will make tough boilers as reservoirs that can store and generate thousands of litters of milk, and also boil them, so the blueprint of the design needs to be done accordingly.
December 20, 2019