Instrument Tech-Austin Industrial (Baytown, TX)

Austin Careers • Baytown, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

This role involves testing, calibrating, troubleshooting, overhauling, and repairing controlling, indicating, and measuring instrument devices to ensure specified operating performance. The technician will use hand tools, testing and calibrating instruments, and precision measuring instruments. A strong ability to read and understand manuals, blueprint schematics, and testing specifications is required, along with some knowledge of electrical schematics and PLCs. Other duties may be assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• NCCER certified
• State Electrical License
• 3-5 years of Journeyman level experience.
• Legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States.
• Ability to test, calibrate, troubleshoot, overhaul and repair controlling, indicating and measuring instrument devices.
• Ability to use hand tools, testing and calibrating instruments and equipment and precision measuring instruments.
• Ability to read and understand manuals, blueprint schematics and testing specifications.
• Some knowledge of electrical schematics and PLCs.
• Ability to read blueprints, schematics and loop drawings.
• Ability to assemble and disassemble all types of electronic process controls, pneumatic controls and hydraulic systems and components.
• Ability to calibrate equipment using common calibration procedures.
• Ability to read, interpret, apply and know where to find procedures.
• Ability to troubleshoot and check out electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems using proper test equipment.
• Ability to apply procedures for measuring pressure, level, flow, temperature, weight, density, heat flux, humidity and moisture, etc.
• Maintain current electrician's license or identification card to meet state regulations.

Nice To Haves

• Plant Maintenance experience preferred.
• TWIC
• DL

Responsibilities

• Reads and works from related blueprints and other schematic drawings.
• Calibrates, installs, and/or removes various instrumentation devices.
• Cuts, bends, and installs tubing needed for the proper installation of the instrumentation device.
• Reads and understands quality control manuals and testing specifications to obtain data needed to test or calibrate specific devices.
• Sets controls to regulate factors such as current flow, timing cycle, pressure or vacuum, or temperature according to specifications.
• Disassembles instrument or device to determine the cause of defective operation or failure.
• Rejects malfunctioning devices and routes them to specified departments for repair or salvaging of usable parts.
• Layouts, fabricates, and installs tubing and tub trays.
• Applies knowledge of mathematics to instrumentation, such as ratio and proportions, numbers with powers of 10, algebra equations, English-to-metric conversion, inches of water to PSI, inches of mercury to PSI, etc.
• Reads blueprints, schematics, and loop drawings and prepares job reports.
• Assembles and disassembles all types of electronic process controls, pneumatic controls, and hydraulic systems and components.
• Calibrates equipment using common calibration procedures and is able to read, interpret, apply, and know where to find other procedures.
• Understands the principles of pH and redox and equipment needed to measure them and is able to control the pH and redox of a liquid.
• Works with and understands Ohm’s Law and Kerchoff’s Law and with Diodes, capacitors, and other electrical components.
• Understands steam and how it reacts to different situations (e.g., saturation properties).
• Works with the principles of chemistry and physics required in instrumentation such as specific gravity, density of liquids and solids, mechanical advantages, proportions of liquids, melting points, freezing points, boiling points of liquids, etc.
• Troubleshoots and checks out electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems using proper test equipment.
• Understands fundamental instrumentation loops and how they function as a loop, and what the function of each component part is in each type of loop.
• Understands common types of chemical plant process equipment such as distillation columns, heat exchangers, boilers, turbines, and compressors.
• Applies the procedures for measuring pressure, level, flow, temperature, weight, density, heat flux, humidity, and moisture, etc.
• Maintains current electrician's license or identification card to meet state regulations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• See the “Know Your Rights” poster available in English and Spanish .
• See the “Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision” poster available in English and Spanish .

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED