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Boilermaker

Latest available data: March 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Boiler constructor Boiler fabricator Boiler fitter Boiler mender Boiler repairer Boiler repiper Boiler retuber Boiler smith Boilermaker Boilermaker fitter Plater Pressure vessel fabricator Pressure vessel maker Pressure vessel mender Pressure vessel repairer Steam boilermaker Steel fabricator Welder boilermaker

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.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Marking sheet metal for cutting and shaping;
(b) Making and repairing household utensils and other articles in tin, copper and light alloys, or ornamental articles and fittings;
(c) Making and repairing boilers, tanks, vats and similar containers;
(d) Installing and repairing sheet-metal parts of vehicles and aircraft;
(e) Converting blueprints into shop drawings to be followed in the construction and assembly of sheet metal products;
(f) Determining project requirements, including scope, assembly sequences, and required methods and materials, according to blueprints, drawings, and written or verbal instructions;
(g) Inspecting product quality and installation to ensure conformance to specifications.

Knowledge

  • Mechanics and metal trades
  • Audio-visual techniques and media production
  • Electricity and energy
  • Building and civil engineering
  • Electronics and automation

Digital competencies

  • Joining parts using soldering, welding or brazing techniques
  • Operating cutting, grinding and smoothing machinery
  • Maintaining operational records
  • Monitoring quality of products
  • Interpreting technical documentation and diagrams

Digital competencies

  • Using digital tools to control machinery
  • Creating visual displays and decorations

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently
  • Taking a proactive approach
  • Communicating

Professional groups of the occupation

Craft and related trades workers

Metal, machinery and related trades workers

Sheet and structural metal workers, moulders and welders, and related workers

Sheet metal workers

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Sheet metal workers

101

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

11,31%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-26,81% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

57,43%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

4,95%

Part-time contracts

1,19% Turnover index

215

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-18%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Metal, machinery and related trades workers

94%

6%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Metal, machinery and related trades workers

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Sheet and structural metal workers, moulders and welders, and related workers

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Sheet metal workers

No experience
8%
Less than 1 year
17%
Between 1 and 2 years
10%
Between 2 and 4 years
34%
Between 4 and 8 years
21%
More than 8 years
10%
Manufacturing
47%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
12%
Education
9%
Administrative and support service activities
8%
Construction
6%
Others
18%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.