Boilermakers

A typical week, in the words of people in the job

1. 01Examine boilers, pressure vessels, tanks, or vats to locate defects, such as leaks, weak spots, or defective sections, so that they can be repaired.
2. 02Study blueprints to determine locations, relationships, or dimensions of parts.
3. 03Inspect assembled vessels or individual components, such as tubes, fittings, valves, controls, or auxiliary mechanisms, to locate any defects.
4. 04Lay out plate, sheet steel, or other heavy metal and locate and mark bending and cutting lines, using protractors, compasses, and drawing instruments or templates.
5. 05Bell, bead with power hammers, or weld pressure vessel tube ends to ensure leakproof joints.
6. 06Install refractory bricks or other heat-resistant materials in fireboxes of pressure vessels.
7. 07Install manholes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges, or feedwater connections in drums of water tube boilers, using hand tools.
8. 08Assemble large vessels in an on-site fabrication shop prior to installation to ensure proper fit.
9. 09Conduct pressure tests on vessels, such as boilers.
10. 10Position, align, and secure structural parts or related assemblies to boiler frames, tanks, or vats of pressure vessels, following blueprints.
11. 11Clean pressure vessel equipment, using scrapers, wire brushes, and cleaning solvents.
12. 12Repair 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.

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