Boilermaker

Company Overview
HKA Enterprises is a multinational organization with over 40 years of experience delivering top-tier workforce solutions to leading industries worldwide. Our services include contingent labor staffing, direct hire, payroll management, and more, supporting sectors such as manufacturing, aerospace, construction, and industrial maintenance.

Job Summary
We are seeking a skilled and motivated Boilermaker to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will be responsible for fabricating, assembling, installing, and maintaining boilers and related equipment across industrial settings. Your expertise will ensure the safe and efficient operation of boiler systems while providing exceptional service to clients in diverse environments. Local candidates only; no per diem offered.

The typical duties and responsibilities include:

- Interpret blueprints, sketches, and other specification documents to prepare for the construction and repair of boiler systems.

- Align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame tanks or vats, following blueprints.

- Install manholes, handholds, valves, gauges, and feedwater connections in drums of water tube boilers, using hand tools.

- Examine boilers, pressure vessels, tanks, or vats to locate defects such as leaks, weak spots, or defective sections.

- 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 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.

- Inspect assembled vessels or individual components, such as tubes, fittings, valves, controls, or auxiliary mechanisms, to locate any defects.

- Position, align, and secure structural parts or related assemblies to boiler frames, tanks, or vats of pressure vessels, following blueprints.

- Perform regular maintenance checks and repairs to ensure optimal boiler performance and adherence to safety standards.

Qualifications:

- 3 years' work experience as a Boilermaker.

- Experience in a shipyard environment.

- Excellent welding and fabrication skills.

- Able to interpret technical plans and blueprints.

- Physically able to lift heavy equipment and work in confined spaces.

- High school diploma or equivalent. Relevant certifications may be required.

- Ability to obtain DBIDS.

Work Environment: This position requires work in a shipyard environment and can involve physically demanding tasks.

Pay Rate: Based on candidate’s experience and qualifications.

Location: Norfolk, VA (May also included Portsmouth, VA for future project sites based on awarded contracts)

Employment Type: Full-time. 1st shift.

Job Types: Full-time, Temporary

Pay: $20.00 - $30.00 per hour

Expected hours: No less than 70 per week

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Experience:

• Boilermaker: 3 years (Required)
• Blueprint reading: 3 years (Required)

Shift availability:

• Day Shift (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $20 - $30