Summary
Construction Boilermaker is defined as a person who fabricates, assembles, installs, constructs, erects, alters, maintains, repairs, disassembles, tests, and demolishes boilers, process equipment, tanks, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, calandria, pollution control systems, furnaces, water towers, penstocks, scroll casing, exhaust stacks, and vats and related ducting, parts, and access assemblies.
Skills
Use and Maintain Scaffolding, Work Platforms and Fall-Arrest Equipment
- Select, inspect, and erect scaffolding
- Select, inspect, and operate work platforms, swing, stages, and boatswain’s chairs
- Work on scaffolding and work platforms and at heights
- Dismantle scaffolds
Maintain Cutting, Preheat and Welding Equipment and Supplies
- Maintain oxyfuel cutting and heating equipment
- Maintain arc welding equipment
- Store welding consumables
Prepare for Installation
- Prepare for job layout
- Develop an installation plan
- Survey site
- Select tools, materials, and equipment required for the installation
- Determine work sequence and required workforce
Set Up Job Site
- Locate and set up equipment
- Block out job site
- Consult with supervisors
Cut and Gouge Metals
- Cut metal with oxyfuel equipment
- Cut and gouge metal with arc air-gouging equipment
- Cut metal with plasma arc equipment
- Cut metal and concrete with high-pressure water and oxygen cutting lances
Weld Assemblies
- Select and set up welding equipment
- Install consumables
- Adjust and verify welding process parameters
- Preheat components or assembly
- Fillet weld using the SMAW, GMAW, and GTAW processes
- Groove weld using the SMAW and GMAW processes
- Weld using orbital and overlay welding techniques
- Weld using the stud welding process
- Weld using the plastic welding process
- Clean welds
- Measure welds for completeness
- Visually inspect welds
- Perform post-weld product control of weldment temperature
- Correct excessive welding distortion
Fit Plate Subassemblies and Assemblies
- Fabricate or modify plate-fitting devices
- Prepare welding joints
- Fit components
- Preheat components or assembly
- Plan for the control of distortion
- Perform tack welding
Fit Tubes and Tube Assemblies
- Prepare tubes and tube sheets for installation
- Fabricate or modify tube-fitting devices
- Prepare welding joints
- Fit components
- Expand tubes
- Preheat components or assemblies
- Control distortion
- Perform tack welding
Rig and Hoist
- Select and inspect rigging equipment
- Position and employ rigging
- Select and inspect hoisting and lifting equipment
- Operate hoisting equipment
Construct and Erect Plant Components and Related Equipment
- Construct plant subcomponents and related equipment on site
- Erect plant components and related equipment on site
Remove or Demolish Plant Components and Related Equipment
- Dismantle or demolish plant components and related equipment
- Remove dismantled or demolished materials and equipment
Maintain Plant Systems and Ancillary Structures
- Accommodate the local maintenance environment
- Determine the scope of work
- Repair plant systems and ancillary equipment
- Replace plant systems and ancillary equipment
For more information, see Ontario College of Trades Training Standards.
