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Combustion & Controls

Mechanical Boiler Service Technician

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This Mechanical Boiler Service Technician is responsible for comprehending and utilizing blueprints, sketches, drawings, technical manuals, and work process instructions to install, and repair boilers, pumps, burners, and other pressure vessels.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Test and inspect boiler systems.
  • Inspect assembled vessels and individual components, such as tubes, fittings, valves, controls, and auxiliary mechanisms, to locate any defects.
  • Evaluate basic boiler room systems (steam and hydronic), gather information, and help solve problems.
  • Troubleshoot and repair valves, motors, and safety devices.
  • Install manholes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges, and feedwater connections in tube boilers, using hand tools.
  • Clean pressure vessel equipment, using scrapers, wire brushes, and cleaning solvents.
  • Read cut sheets layout from drawing and cut material from layout and cut sheets.
  • Interpret drawings, and assemble required material, direct helpers and use work tools and knowledge of specialty tools (torque wrench, mill hogg, torch, plasma cutter, chop saws, mag drills, Hogan drills) to complete work. Ability to make modifications to the equipment per these drawings.
  • Wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) appropriate to current or daily job duties.
  • Comply with the highest level of safety during all stages of project execution to avoid any type of incidents and or accidents.
  • Complete service reports on the job, have clients sign the completed report before leaving the site, submit the signed reports to the office.
  • Perform additional duties as requested.

Work Environment:


This job operates in internal and external environments which may include inclement weather conditions. Environment will include working with hot steam, liquids tight spaces and other conditions depending on customer site(s).


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