Fitter Class A – Heat Exchangers and Pressure Vessels
Location: Channelview, Texas
Job Type: Full-Time, Temp-to-Hire
Pay: $26.00–$30.00 per hour, depending on experience
Shift: Monday–Thursday, 5:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Overtime: Fridays may be used for makeup hours or overtime, with possible Saturday and Sunday work
Night-Shift Differential: Additional $1.60 per hour when assigned to nights
Job Summary
DIHO Consulting USA is seeking an experienced Fitter Class A for an industrial fabrication opportunity in Channelview, Texas. The ideal candidate will have at least 10 years of hands-on experience fitting and assembling heat exchangers, pressure vessels, tanks, or similar heavy industrial equipment.
This position requires advanced blueprint-reading, layout, measurement, fabrication, and fit-up skills. The selected candidate must be able to work independently, maintain tight tolerances, and ensure that components are assembled according to drawings, specifications, and quality standards.
Responsibilities
- Read and interpret fabrication blueprints, vessel drawings, shop drawings, and welding symbols
- Fit and assemble heat exchangers, pressure vessels, tanks, shells, heads, nozzles, flanges, channels, and related components
- Perform layout, measuring, leveling, squaring, aligning, and marking of materials
- Prepare components through cutting, grinding, beveling, drilling, and surface preparation
- Position and fit components before welding
- Perform tack welding when qualified and required
- Verify dimensions, angles, tolerances, and alignment using precision measuring tools
- Use come-alongs, chain falls, clamps, jacks, cranes, and other rigging equipment
- Work with carbon steel, stainless steel, and other industrial materials
- Inspect completed fit-ups for compliance with drawings and quality requirements
- Coordinate with welders, supervisors, quality-control personnel, and other fabrication team members
- Follow all OSHA, company, and job-site safety procedures
- Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work area
- Work overtime, weekends, or night shift when production needs require
Requirements
- At least 10 years of industrial fitting experience
- Direct experience fitting heat exchangers or pressure vessels strongly required
- Advanced ability to read fabrication blueprints and technical drawings
- Experience with vessel layout, component alignment, and dimensional verification
- Knowledge of welding preparation, fit-up tolerances, and fabrication processes
- Ability to use tape measures, levels, squares, calipers, micrometers, and other precision tools
- Experience using hand tools, power tools, grinders, cutting tools, and rigging equipment
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality
- Ability to stand, bend, climb, lift, and perform physically demanding work throughout the shift
- Reliable transportation to Channelview
- Ability to pass required background and drug screenings
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience fitting both heat exchangers and pressure vessels
- Welding or tack-welding experience
- Previous refinery, petrochemical, vessel-shop, or heavy-fabrication experience
- NCCER, OSHA, rigging, forklift, or related industrial certifications
- Experience working from ASME-related fabrication drawings and specifications