Instrument Technician - Austin Industrial (Baytown, TX)

About the role

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.

Responsibilities

• Install, test, calibrate, troubleshoot, overhaul, and repair electrical, controlling, indicating, and measuring instrument devices to ensure specified operating performance using hand tools, testing and calibrating instruments, and precision measuring instruments.
• Read and understand manuals, wiring or instrumentation schematics, and testing specifications.
• Troubleshoot electric motors, install wiring to circuits, and work with electrical schematics and PLCs.
• Layout, fabricate, and install tubing and tub trays.
• Apply knowledge of mathematics to instrumentation, including ratio and proportions, powers of 10, algebra equations, English-to-metric conversion, and pressure unit conversions (e.g., inches of water to PSI, inches of mercury to PSI).
• Read blueprints, schematics, and loop drawings; prepare job reports.
• Assemble and disassemble electronic process controls, pneumatic controls, and hydraulic systems and components.
• Calibrate equipment using common calibration procedures; read, interpret, and apply procedures.
• Understand principles of pH and redox, including measurement and control of pH and redox in liquids.
• Work with Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s Law, diodes, capacitors, and other electrical components.
• Understand steam properties and reactions (e.g., saturation properties).
• Apply principles of chemistry and physics in instrumentation, such as specific gravity, density, mechanical advantages, proportions of liquids, melting/freezing/boiling points.
• Troubleshoot and check out electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems using proper test equipment.
• Understand fundamental instrumentation loops, including the function of each component in the loop.
• Understand common chemical plant process equipment (e.g., distillation columns, heat exchangers, boilers, turbines, compressors).
• Apply procedures for measuring pressure, level, flow, temperature, weight, density, heat flux, humidity, and moisture.
• Maintain a current electrician's license or identification card to meet state regulations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 4 years of Journeyman-level experience.
• Certification/License: NCCER, TDLR, and Driver’s License.
• Legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States (Austin Industrial is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship for this position).

Physical, Mental & Environmental Requirements

• Ability to sit, stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, and use hands and fingers to perform assigned duties.
• Lift, carry, push, or pull up to 50 pounds; work at elevations, on uneven surfaces, or in confined spaces.
• Sufficient visual, hearing, communication, and motor skills to safely perform job responsibilities.
• Ability to read, comprehend, and follow safety procedures, work instructions, and company policies; exercise sound judgment; solve problems; maintain attention to detail; manage stress; and adapt to changing priorities.
• Work in industrial and construction environments with exposure to weather conditions, temperature extremes, noise, dust, fumes, moving equipment, vibration, and other site-specific hazards.
• Wear required personal protective equipment (PPE) and meet all customer, site, regulatory, medical, and fitness-for-duty requirements.
• Perform all job duties while maintaining a constant commitment to safety, quality, and productivity expectations.