Valve and Actuation Field Service Apprentice

Job Description

Job Description

Valve and Actuation Field Service Apprentice

Location: Chandler, AZ | Employment: Full-time

A day in your new career

It’s 6:00 a.m. in Chandler and you’re gearing up with your crew. By mid-morning, you’re learning side-by-side with Level I and Level II technicians, tearing down a control valve set for inspection. After lunch, you’re back at our shop assembling actuators to manufacturer specifications, double-checking torque values, and verifying test results. Later, you hop in the stake bed to return refurbished valves to a customer site, where you lend a hand with in-line work—packing changes, flange bolting, and fittings. Before the day wraps, you tidy the work area, log your work orders on the computer, and coordinate tomorrow’s pickup schedule. That’s the rhythm of growth at Caltrol.

Why Caltrol?

For more than 90 years, Caltrol has helped customers across Arizona, California, Hawaii, and Nevada optimize industrial processes. As an Emerson Impact Partner, we blend local expertise with a global network to deliver solutions that elevate control, reliability, safety, and performance. We consult, engineer, service, and support projects of every size—backed by employee-owners who take pride in their craft.

What you’ll learn and do

• Assist with testing and assembling valves and actuators per work orders, IOMs, and customer specs.
• Clean and prepare serviceable parts using solvents, wire brushes, or a sandblaster.
• Work both in-shop and at customer locations to decontaminate, assemble, repair, and function-test equipment.
• Support in-line valve tasks at customer sites (packing changes, valve fitting, flange bolting, and torqueing).
• Verify build quality and conformance to standards and customer requirements.
• Assist in repairing valves, actuators, and related instrumentation in the shop and in the field.
• Operate the stake bed to pick up and deliver valves to and from client sites.
• Help maintain shop tools and equipment for safe, reliable operation.
• Develop hands-on capability to safely service control and isolation valves.

Pay range

$23.00–$26.00 per hour — the range Caltrol reasonably expects to pay at the time of posting. Actual base pay considers internal equity, region, skills, qualifications, experience, and role requirements.

What helps you succeed

• Valid driver’s license in good standing and excellent driving record.
• Comfort working weekends and overtime when customer needs require it.
• Self-starter who collaborates well with a team.
• Basic PC skills to send emails and process work orders.
• Safe use of impact wrenches, hand tools, test equipment, overhead cranes, and forklifts.
• Strong work ethic and attention to detail.

Preferred

• Mechanical and electrical experience.
• Ability to read customer schematics and interpret IOMs.
• Knowledge or experience with manual machining.

Benefits built for you

• Profit sharing
• 401(k) with employer match
• Generous PTO + 12 paid holidays
• Medical, Dental, Vision starting the 1st of the month after hire
• Unlimited virtual primary care via AstroDoc
• HSA (with employer contribution) and FSA
• Company-paid life insurance and short-term disability
• Wellness perks, including gym and on-demand fitness discounts
• Pet discount program
• Student loan repayment match
• Tuition/education reimbursement
• Professional development opportunities

Ownership mindset (ESOP)

Caltrol is a certified Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company. Our people have a license to act—because they are owners. We invest in training, promote an inclusive, team-driven culture, and empower employee-owners to deliver exceptional customer experiences. We also give back to our communities through company and employee contributions.

Learn about the Caltrol ESOP

Schedule, travel, and environment

• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 6:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m., with overtime as needed
• Travel: Up to 40% out of town/state
• Physical demands: Wear required PPE (hard hat, safety glasses, FR clothing, safety-toed shoes, hearing/respiratory protection, etc.); lift/move up to 50 lbs; walk/stand 8 hours; frequent climbing, kneeling, reaching, pushing, pulling, lifting, and grasping
• Conditions: Potential chemical exposure; proximity to moving mechanical/mobile equipment; outdoor work in varying temperatures

Tools & proficiencies

• You should be proficient in: Driver's License, Mechanical Troubleshooting Skills, Mechanical Assembly Skills
• Machines & technologies you'll use: Overhead Crane, Forklifts

Grow with us

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Legal and compliance

You must have a valid driver's license in good standing and an excellent driving record.This is a safety-sensitive position. You are required to pass a pre-screen drug test that includes testing for marijuana. You will also be subjected to random hair follicle drug testing.

Ability to pass and keep up with OSCA Random drug screening and background checks for customers.

Caltrol is deeply committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone is respected, treated fairly, and given equal opportunities to perform to their fullest potential. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees are critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Reasonable accommodation is available for candidates with disabilities, ensuring they can effectively perform essential job functions.

Other duties

This job description/listing is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.