How do they match: Boilermakers

  • Attach rigging and signal crane or hoist operators to lift heavy frame and plate sections or other parts into place.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

  • Operate cranes, hoists, or other moving or lifting equipment.
  • Inspect industrial or commercial equipment to ensure proper operation.
  • Install metal structural components.
  • Signal equipment operators to indicate proper equipment positioning.
  • Weld metal components.