boilermaker
Boilermakers operate a variety of equipment and machinery to create, repipe and retube hot water and steam boilers, producing them in all steps of the production process. They cut, gouge and shape the metal sheets and tubes for the boilers to size, using oxy-acetylene gas torches, assemble them by shielded metal arc welding, gas metal arc welding or gas tungsten arc welding, and finish them by the appropriate machine tools, power tools and coating.
Also called: pressure vessel mender, boiler fitter, plater, boiler smith, boiler repairer, boiler repiper, boiler fabricator, pressure vessel repairer
- 22
- essential skills
- 39
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
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Essential skills
22- apply arc welding techniques
- apply precision metalworking techniques
- ensure correct metal temperature
- ensure equipment availability
- flammable fluids
- fuel gas
- handle gas cylinders
- manufacturing of heating equipment
- metal smoothing technologies
- operate oxy-fuel cutting torch
- operate precision measuring equipment
- operate soldering equipment
- operate welding equipment
- perform test run
- quality standards
- read standard blueprints
- record production data for quality control
- select filler metal
- smooth burred surfaces
- troubleshoot
- types of metal
- wear appropriate protective gear
Optional skills
39- 3D printing process
- automation technology
- cast metal
- casting processes
- consult technical resources
- cutting technologies
- determine suitability of materials
- dispose of cutting waste material
- ferrous metal processing
- keep records of work progress
- maintain mechatronic equipment
- maintain robotic equipment
- maintenance of printing machines
- maintenance operations
- manufacturing of steam generators
- mechatronics
- metal forming technologies
- monitor automated machines
- monitor gauge
- operate 3D computer graphics software
- operate automated process control
- operate drill press
- operate printing machinery
- perform machine maintenance
- perform product testing
- printing materials
- printing on large scale machines
- printing techniques
- repair heating equipment
- rivet types
- riveting machine types
- robotics
- set up the controller of a machine
- spot metal imperfections
- supply machine
- supply machine with appropriate tools
- tend punch press
- types of drill press oils
- types of metal manufacturing processes
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