Instrumentation Technician; Augusta, GA - Austin Industrial

Overview

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 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency.

Instrumentation Technician – 4 plus years Journeyman experience;
Plant Maintenance experience preferred. Heavy on instrument.

• Test, calibrate, troubleshoot, overhaul and repair controlling, indicating and measuring instrument devices to ensure specified operating performance using hand tools, testing and calibrating instruments and equipment and precision measuring instruments.
• Read and understand manuals, blueprint schematics and testing specifications. Knowledge of electrical schematics and PLCs.
• Read blueprints and other schematic drawings; calibrate, install and/or remove instrumentation devices.
• Cut, bend and install tubing for proper installation of instrumentation devices.
• Read quality control manuals and testing specifications to obtain data needed to test or calibrate devices.
• Set controls to regulate factors such as current flow, timing, pressure, vacuum or temperature according to specifications.
• Disassemble instrument or device to determine cause of defective operation or failure when needed.
• Reject malfunctioning devices and route to specified departments for repair or salvage of survivable parts.
• Layout, fabricate and install tubing and tubing trays; apply knowledge of mathematics to instrumentation (ratios, conversions, algebra, unit conversions).
• Read loops drawings and prepare job reports; assemble and disassemble electronic process controls, pneumatic and hydraulic systems and components.
• Calibrate equipment using standard procedures; read and apply related procedures as needed.
• Understand pH and redox principles; measure and control pH and redox of liquids.
• Understand steam and its behavior; apply principles of chemistry and physics in instrumentation (e.g., specific gravity, density, melting/boiling points).
• Troubleshoot electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic systems with proper test equipment; understand fundamental instrumentation loops and component functions within loops.
• Understand common chemical plant process equipment (distillation columns, heat exchangers, boilers, turbines, compressors).
• Apply procedures for measuring pressure, level, flow, temperature, weight, density, heat flux, humidity and moisture.
• Maintain current electrician's license or identification card to meet state regulations.
• Other duties as assigned.
• 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.

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. 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 include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Education: High school diploma

Experience: Maintenance - Instrumentation Technician, 4 plus years Journeyman experience;
Plant Maintenance experience preferred. Heavy on instrument.

We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and a matching 401K plan. We are proud to be a 100% Employee-Owned Company (ESOP). To learn more about our employee-ownership structure, please visit the company site.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. See the Know Your Rights poster available in English and Spanish at EEOC links.

If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs or have accessibility concerns, please contact the People Services Team.

Licenses & Certifications

• NCCER-Inst Tech Certified
• Valid Driver's License
• TWIC Card
• NCCER-Ind Elec Cert

Equal Opportunity Employer. This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.