Austin Industries
Instrumentation Technician – Austin Industrial DP VCM T/A
Austin Industries, Deer Park, Texas, United States, 77536
Instrumentation Technician – Austin Industrial DP VCM T/A
Austin Industrial is an employee‑owned, owner‑operated company that delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft‑craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. Our team of 4,000 employee‑owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost‑efficiency.
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.
Uses 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 cause of defective operation or failure.
Rejects malfunctioning devices and routes to specified departments for repair or salvaging of survivable parts.
Layouts, fabricates and installs tubing and tub trays.
Applies knowledge of mathematics to instrumentation, such as ratios, proportions, numbers with powers of ten, 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 knows where to find other procedures.
Understands the principles of pH and redox and the equipment needed to measure them and can control the pH and redox of a liquid.
Understands steam and how it reacts to different situations (e.g., saturation properties).
Understands 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.
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications Required
Education: High school diploma, Journeyman experience in maintenance training.
Certifications/ Licenses: NCCER, TDLR Electrical License, TWIC and DL.
Experience: 8 plus years journeyman experience, plant maintenance experience preferred, heavy on instrument.
Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Benefits & Compensation We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and a matching 401(k) plan. We are proud to be a 100% Employee‑Owned Company (ESOP)! To learn more about our employee‑ownership structure, please go to https://www.austin-ind.com/our-company/100‑employee‑owned.
Equal Opportunity Employer Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Visa & Authorization Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.
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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.
Uses 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 cause of defective operation or failure.
Rejects malfunctioning devices and routes to specified departments for repair or salvaging of survivable parts.
Layouts, fabricates and installs tubing and tub trays.
Applies knowledge of mathematics to instrumentation, such as ratios, proportions, numbers with powers of ten, 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 knows where to find other procedures.
Understands the principles of pH and redox and the equipment needed to measure them and can control the pH and redox of a liquid.
Understands steam and how it reacts to different situations (e.g., saturation properties).
Understands 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.
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications Required
Education: High school diploma, Journeyman experience in maintenance training.
Certifications/ Licenses: NCCER, TDLR Electrical License, TWIC and DL.
Experience: 8 plus years journeyman experience, plant maintenance experience preferred, heavy on instrument.
Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Benefits & Compensation We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and a matching 401(k) plan. We are proud to be a 100% Employee‑Owned Company (ESOP)! To learn more about our employee‑ownership structure, please go to https://www.austin-ind.com/our-company/100‑employee‑owned.
Equal Opportunity Employer Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Visa & Authorization Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.
Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Austin Industries by 2x.
Get notified about new Instrumentation Technician jobs in Deer Park, TX.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Management and Manufacturing
Industries
Construction
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