Specialist, Metering and Sampling

NextDecade • Brownsville, TX

7d • Onsite

About The Position

The Maintenance Specialist, Metering and Sampling performs daily metering, analysis, and sampling maintenance activities at a facility in Brownsville, Texas. The role supports safe, high-quality work practices and optimizes equipment availability while maintaining the accuracy and reliability of analytical systems used to monitor gas composition, process efficiency, and environmental compliance.

The position works across maintenance disciplines and supports preventive and corrective maintenance planning and execution, documentation review, materials optimization, continuous improvement, and maintenance execution meetings. It operates in a complex construction environment and may involve indoor and outdoor work, exposure to changing weather, moving mechanical parts, electrical circuits, and distracting noise. The employee must be able to use required PPE and meet the stated physical demands, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• At least 5 years of post-qualification experience.
• Subject-matter expertise in metering, analyzer, and sampling activities.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and documentation, including P&IDs, isometric drawings, general arrangements, logic, control narratives, cause-and-effect diagrams, and loop and wiring documents.
• Experience testing and inspecting Safety Critical Elements and meeting statutory and federal regulatory compliance requirements.
• Experience with goal setting and performance management.
• Working knowledge of CMMS systems such as SAP or similar.
• Experience reviewing and redlining critical maintenance procedures.
• Working knowledge of a Management of Change (MOC) process.
• Relevant instrumentation and controls LNG maintenance experience, including Integrated Control and Safety Systems (DCS/SIS) and PLCs.
• Extensive experience with gas chromatography, spectroscopy, and other analytical technologies used in LNG operations.
• Experience maintaining analyzers such as gas chromatographs, oxygen analyzers, and moisture analyzers, as well as LNG sampling systems.
• Subject-matter expertise with flow computers, gas turbine processes, custody metering, and flow transmitter types for various media.
• Subject-matter expertise with analyzers, gas chromatographs, LNG sampling systems, fire and gas detection systems, anti-surge control systems, and field instrumentation.
• Knowledge of communication network protocols such as Ethernet/IP, Modbus RTU or TCP, OPC, and HART.
• Ability to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC).
• Ability to wear required PPE and perform the stated physical demands, with or without reasonable accommodations.
• Ability to stand and/or sit continuously and perform job functions for a full shift; use all extremities; and walk, stand, bend, stoop, kneel, reach, twist, lift, push, pull, climb, balance, crouch, and handle items.
• Ability to lift items weighing up to 20 pounds without assistance.
• Corrected visual acuity sufficient to perform job functions, including close, distance, color, peripheral, and depth vision and the ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to communicate clearly via radio, phone, and verbal methods.
• May be required to enter confined spaces and work at elevated heights or access elevated structures without assistance.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s or associate degree in Instrumentation, Electrical Engineering, or Analytical Technology.
• At least 5 years of LNG export facility experience in an analyzer maintenance technician role.
• At least 10 years of experience in the oil and gas or petrochemical industries.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a proactive safety attitude and follow safe work practices, NextDecade life-saving rules, and permitting processes.
• Lead by example in supporting the safety and wellbeing of the execution team and maintaining a positive safety culture for apprentices and contractors.
• Coordinate and work with other maintenance disciplines, including Electrical, Instrumentation, Mechanical, Plant Services, Planning, specialist vendors, and contractors.
• Support the initial development and ongoing review of preventive and corrective maintenance plans aligned with facility equipment.
• Review maintenance documentation, including work instructions, JSAs, SWMMs, permits, and document redlines.
• Participate in metering, analyzer, and sampling maintenance execution, including breakdown, corrective, and preventive maintenance activities.
• Safely complete planned activities on the locked schedule while maximizing tool time and minimizing cost and deferrals.
• Participate in reviewing materials and parts optimization.
• Contribute to continuous improvement programs and cost-saving initiatives.
• Attend required maintenance execution meetings, including HSSE meetings, pre-starts, work allocation meetings, and toolbox talks.
• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on analyzers and LNG sampling systems.
• Drive to other company work locations as required and move throughout the facility, including traveling to designated muster points during emergencies.
• Clearly communicate with others by radio, phone, and verbal methods.

What This Job Offers

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