Instrument Technician - Intern

About the Company

At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living while reducing emissions. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for. The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower-emissions technologies. We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs.

About Beaumont, Texas

With a population of more than 118,000, Beaumont, Texas, is located in the Gulf Coast region of the United States, on the Neches River, about 85 miles east of Houston. Beaumont has been a home to the oil industry from the days of the Spindletop oil boom until today and, along with nearby Port Arthur and Orange, is part of the Golden Triangle industrial area on the Texas Gulf Coast. The Beaumont complex includes a refinery, chemical plant, polyethylene plant, and lubricant blending and packaging plant, employing over 5,500 people. The complex produces Mobil 1, the world’s leading synthetic motor oil, as well as Mobil Aviation Greases, fuels, and chemical compounds used in plastics, Nylon, shrink wrap, and more.

About the Role

We are looking for Instrument Technicians at our Beaumont, Texas Chemical Plant. An Instrument Technician installs and maintains all components of instrument control and electronic systems, safely troubleshooting, analyzing, and repairing equipment such as Programmable Logic Controllers, distribution wiring and piping, instrument tubing, control valves, DCS systems, controllers, marshalling cabinets, junction boxes, gas detection instruments, analyzers, and similar equipment.

Responsibilities

• Dismantle and troubleshoot instrumentation, replacing defective electronic or mechanical parts.
• Install and maintain various types of instruments, including Safety Critical devices, motorized and pneumatically operated valves, and analyzers.
• Monitor performance of installed instrumentation equipment for hazards, adjustments, or replacements.
• Lay out, assemble, install, test, repair, and adjust instruments, apparatus, junction boxes, wiring, panels, power supplies, and conduit.
• Mount instruments, analyzers, and valves into position, completing circuits and tubing according to diagram specifications.
• Repair, install, replace, and test instrument loops, equipment, and appliances using appropriate tools and testing instruments.
• Troubleshoot and repair electric controls, instrument loops, control centers, DCS, and programmable logic controls.
• Perform preventive maintenance on control systems, instrument loops, and distribution panels.
• Install, repair, and inspect various types of conduit, tubing, and piping installations.
• Understand and utilize Management of Change and Control of Defeat procedures.
• Perform Mechanical Integrity procedures and produce and maintain maintenance records.
• Research documentation for proper calibration values, adjust as necessary, and document all values and changes.
• Interpret blueprints, loop drawings, hook-up sheets, and electrical schematics.

Qualifications

• Able to work in shops and field settings.
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively develop, communicate, and implement plans.
• Effective in oral and written communications, including meeting skills.
• Ability to work with others in a team environment, including working toward team goals.
• Able to identify and mitigate job and/or safety hazards.
• Performs position in a manner that demonstrates professionalism, knowledge, understanding, and commitment to health and safety.

Preferred Experience

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum of 50% completed towards an Associate Degree in a related field.
• Demonstrated work experience directly related to installation and maintenance of temperature, pressure, flow, vibration, and speed instruments and controllers.
• Ability to isolate instrumentation equipment and defects in wiring, switches, etc., through Lock Out, Tag Out.
• Ability to install and maintain instruments, analyzers, control valves, conduit, wiring, tubing, and piping.
• Knowledge of instrumentation systems, including planning additions or modifications on loops and circuits.
• Proficiency in safe use of hand and power tools applicable to the trade.
• Ability to safely operate a variety of electronic, pneumatic, and electrical test instruments.
• Ability to install analyzers and sampling systems.
• Ability to read instrument and electrical blueprints through the full range of industrial maintenance and construction work.
• Proficiency in use of appropriate tools and diagnostic equipment to troubleshoot, repair, replace, and test instrument loops, electrical circuits, and equipment.
• Ability to diagnose and repair electrical controls, instrument loops, motor and pneumatic operated valves, and programmable logic controllers.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of ladder logic and programming theory used in DCS control systems.
• Proficiency with computer programs in field calibration, communication, document, and record-keeping functions.

This position requires pre-employment testing. The assessment must be completed by Friday, July 31, 2026.