Project Control System Specialist- Austin Industrial (Spring, TX)

Description

About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service 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.

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Specific Duties and 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.

• When needed, reads and understands quality control manuals and testing specifications in order 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.

• As needed, disassembles instrument or device in order to determine cause of defective operation or failure.

• Rejects malfunctioning devices and routes to specified departments for repair or salvaging of survivable parts.

• 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 Kerchoff’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.

• 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.

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.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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No Third-Party Inquiries Please

This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so ( i.e. , payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

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For further information, please review the Know Your Rights ( notice from the Department of Labor.