Overview

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Day-to-Day

• Attach rigging and signal crane or hoist operators to lift heavy frame and plate sections or other parts into place.
• Study blueprints to determine locations, relationships, or dimensions of parts.
• Repair or replace defective pressure vessel parts, such as safety valves or regulators, using torches, jacks, caulking hammers, power saws, threading dies, welding equipment, or metalworking machinery.
• Locate and mark reference points for columns or plates on boiler foundations, following blueprints and using straightedges, squares, transits, or measuring instruments.
• Bolt or arc weld pressure vessel structures and parts together, using wrenches or welding equipment.

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