Boilermaker
Code 7213.1
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.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- manufacturing of heating equipment
- fuel gas
- flammable fluids
- quality standards
- metal smoothing technologies
- types of metal
Skills and competences
- smooth burred surfaces
- apply precision metalworking techniques
- apply arc welding techniques
- ensure equipment availability
- read standard blueprints
- operate welding equipment
- operate precision measuring equipment
- handle gas cylinders
- operate soldering equipment
- operate oxy-fuel cutting torch
- record production data for quality control
- troubleshoot
- perform test run
- wear appropriate protective gear
Transversal competences
- ensure correct metal temperature
- select filler metal
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