• Job Description

  Req#: PIPEF025076

  Austin Industrial, Inc. - We seek an experienced Pipefitter Helper based in Houston, Texas.
  This position requires a Driver's License and a TWIC Card.
  Maintenance position working 4x10s plus occasional OT - No Per Diem.

  About Austin Industrial

  Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of 4,000 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency.

  Pipefitter Helper

  This person will assist pipefitters and pipe fabricators to lay out, assemble, install, and maintain pipe systems, pipe supports, and related hydraulic and pneumatic equipment for steam, hot water, heating, cooling, lubricating, sprinkling, and industrial production and processing systems. Other duties may be assigned.

  Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Cut, thread, and hammer pipe to specifications, using tools such as saws, cutting torches, and pipe threaders and benders.
  • Cuts or drills holes in walls to permit passage of pipes, using pneumatic drill.
  • Selects specific type and size of pipe.
  • Mounts pipe hangers and brackets to hold pipe.
  • Assists Pipefitter to install valves, couplings, and other fittings.
  • May disassemble and remove damage or worn pipe.
  • Other duties as assigned.

  Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

  Qualifications Required for this Position:

  Education: – no minimum education requirements.

  Certifications/ Licenses: NCCER, a Valid Driver’s License, and a TWIC Card.

  Experience: – 2 years of experience in an Industrial setting preferred.

  Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

  • See the “Know Your Rights” poster available in English and Spanish.

  No Third-Party Inquiries Please

  • This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

  Accessibility Note

  • If you are a job seeker with a disability and require reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs or have accessibility concerns, please contact the People Services Team at (877) 831-1217.

  Qualifications

  Experience

  Required 2 years

  2 years of experience in an Industrial setting preferred.

  Licenses & Certifications

  Required

  TWIC Card

  Valid Driver's License

  Equal Opportunity Employer
  This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.

• About the company

  Austin Industries was founded by Charles R.Moore in 1918. But the Austin name first became known in the Texas bridge building field when George Austin came to Dallas in 1889 as an agent for the George E. King Bridge Co. of Des Moines, Iowa. His brother...

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