Build the systems that power industry
At Cleaver-Brooks Sales & Service (CBSS) in San Antonio, you’ll be the on-site expert customers count on. As a Boiler & Pressure Vessel Field Mechanic, you’ll travel daily to customer locations, transform plans into operational systems, and leave every site safer and more efficient than you found it.
Based in: San Antonio, TX
Impact you’ll make
From foundation bolts to final pressure tests, you’ll bring craftsmanship and discipline to every step:
- Build boilers, tanks, vats, and pressure vessels to spec with hand and power tools.
- Read and interpret blueprints, translating drawings into precise assemblies.
- Expand and bell tube ends to connect fire tubes to heads and water tubes to drums and headers; bead ends with a power hammer.
- Drill and tap for stud installation using a portable drill.
- Assemble and torque frames with hand or power wrenches.
- Install water-tube casings and attach davit heads, burners, and furnace casings on fire-tube boilers.
- Fit and fasten man-holes, hand-holes, fans, gauges, and valves.
- Diagnose and replace failed parts or piping using prybars and wrenches.
- Perform refractory brick and furnace tile installs/repairs when required.
- Thread and install pipe using wrenches and dies.
- Restore insulation on shells, piping, and boiler fire-sides; remove/replace and caulk seams.
- Oxy-fuel cut defective parts, boiler tubes, or tube ends.
Own the piping lifecycle
- Lay out, fabricate, assemble, install, and maintain boiler piping systems with threaded, sweated copper, and ProPress connections.
- Choose pipe sizes and materials per project requirements.
- Inspect sites to identify obstacles and prevent any compromise to structural integrity.
- Plan installation sequences to avoid interferences and coordinate with other trades.
- Cut with hacksaws, pipe cutters, hammer/chisel, cutting torch, and pipe-cutting machines.
- Thread pipe accurately using a threading machine.
- Assemble/install diverse metal piping and fittings.
- Support runs using clamps, brackets, and hangers.
- Pressure-test and verify integrity by monitoring gauges for leaks.
Qualifications
- Education: High school diploma or equivalent.
- Craft skills: Work to exact tolerances, make decisions with measurable criteria, and visualize 3D assemblies from drawings.
- Physical capability: Skilled hand use; lift/carry up to 50 lbs; sound vision (corrective lenses acceptable); comfortable on ladders/scaffolds; able to stand, stoop, kneel, and crouch.
- Work environments: Willing and able to work at heights and in confined spaces; CBSS provides appropriate safety gear.
- Driving: Valid current driver’s license with a clean record.
Safety first
Familiarity with industrial/commercial safety, including general safety practices, lockout/tagout (LOTO), working overhead, confined space entry, and basic electrical safety.
Rewards & benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Medical, dental, vision, maternity support, discounted virtual physician visits
- Voluntary coverages: critical illness, hospital care, accidental injury
- FSA, HSA, life, short-term and long-term disability
- 401(k) with cash match
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Pet insurance
- Employee discount program
- Tuition assistance
- Paid time off and 11 paid holidays
About Cleaver-Brooks Sales & Service
CBSS provides end-to-end boiler room solutions: new equipment, installations, rentals, retrofits, repairs, parts, and service. We help customers enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and optimize space with reliable, safe, and sustainable systems—backed by a 24/7 customer-driven operation.
Notes
This overview describes the general nature of the role and may be adjusted as business needs change; related duties may be assigned.
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