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Job Title: Boilermaker

Job Description

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 assigned supervisor.

Responsibilities

• Test and inspect boiler systems for leaks or defects.

• Repair valves using hand and power tools.

• Use gas torches for various tasks.

• Clean boilers and boiler furnaces.

• Inspect assembled vessels and individual components for defects.

• Install manholes, 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.

• Read, interpret, and follow procedures, specifications, and drawings.

• Wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) appropriate to current job duties.

• Be fit for a respirator.

• Climb stairs and ladders frequently, up to 200 rungs/steps per hour.

• Access confined spaces.

• Comply with the highest level of safety during all stages of project execution.

• 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.

Essential Skills

• Minimum of 8 years of experience as a boilermaker.

• Proficiency in using blueprints, sketches, drawings, and technical manuals.

• Experience in shipyard and marine environments.

• Proficiency in boiler making, brick/refractory work, and ship repair.

• Mechanical skills and troubleshooting abilities.

• Competency in reading and understanding specifications and drawings.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with using gas torches.

• Ability to wear and properly use PPE.

• Fit for a respirator.

• Ability to climb stairs and ladders frequently.

• Access confined spaces.

• Comply with safety standards at all times.

Why Work Here?

We have been bidding and winning a lot of work, ensuring a busy and stable work environment. This is a great company to get your foot in the door. Once hired on permanently, we provide paid holidays, PTO, paid medical, vision, life, dental, and 401(k) benefits.

Work Environment

Work in open-air conditions such as noise, hot, and cold, as well as in an office-controlled environment. Visits to projects aboard ships and rigs, both on and offshore, as well as confined spaces, may be required. 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 is required.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Norfolk, Virginia.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $20.00 - $27.00

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision

• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital

• 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available

• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)

• Short and long-term disability

• Health Spending Account (HSA)

• Transportation benefits

• Employee Assistance Program

• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Norfolk,VA.

Application Deadline

This position will be accepting applications until Jan 31, 2025.

About Aerotek:

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.