Intern Instrumentation (Baytown, TX) Austin Industrial

Austin Careers•Baytown, TX

About The Position

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of 4,000 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency. Intern Instrumentation Assist such as maintaining, testing, inspecting, and calibrating equipment, ensuring safety and cleanliness, maintaining inventory, and compiling records. Interns may also be responsible for supporting the specification and development of new date systems, acting as a technical resource and collaborating with engineering teams to meet project requirements and deadlines. Also be involved in troubleshooting and problem-solving of control systems issues and providing technical support on ongoing projects. This is accomplished by performing the following essential duties and responsibilities. Other duties may be assigned.

Requirements

TDLR Electrical License
TWIC Card
Valid Driver’s License
1 years of experience

Responsibilities

Layout, fabricate and install tubing and tub trays.
Apply knowledge of mathematics to instrumentation, such as ratio and proportions, numbers with power of 10’s, algebra equations, English-to-metric conversion, inches of water to PSI, inches of mercury to PSI, etc.
Read blueprints, schematics and loop drawings and prepare job reports.
Assemble and disassemble all types of electronic process controls, pneumatic controls and hydraulic systems and components.
Calibrate equipment using common calibration procedures and be able to read, interpret, apply and know where to find other procedures.
Understand the principles of pH and redox and equipment needed to measure them and be able to control the pH and redox of a liquid.
Work with and understand Ohm’s Law and Kirchhoff’s Law and with Diodes, capacitors and other electrical components.
Understand steam and how it reacts to different situations, (e.g. saturation properties).
Work 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.
Troubleshoot and check out electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems using proper test equipment.
Understand fundamental instrumentation loops and how they function as a loop, and what the function of each component part is in each type of loop.
Understand common types of chemical plant process equipment such as distillation columns, heat exchangers, boilers, turbines and compressors.
Apply the 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.
Other duties as assigned.