Controls & Automation Field Technician

Disclaimer: SLB completed the acquisition of ChampionX on July 16, 2025. If selected for this position, your employment will begin with ChampionX and will transition to SLB as part of the planned integration.

We are looking for a Controls and Automation Field Technician located in Odessa, TX . This is your opportunity to join a global technology company, driving energy innovation for a balanced planet.

What's In It For You:

• The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth.
• Thrive in a company that values sustainability, drives a safety-focused culture and empowers through continuous improvement.
• The chance to join a learning and problem-solving culture
• Comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company matching and more!

What You Will Do:

• Works under general supervision to perform moderately complex customer support activities. Assists with on-site installations, check-out, and emergency repairs.
• Uses mastery of electrician trades skills and knowledge to diagnose and solve electrical problems and installation of Smarten Controllers and other related equipment.
• Perform installation and repair of other I&E equipment, encompassing other lift types and products.
• Creates and assembles components and installs them as required.
• Performs preventative maintenance.
• Documents maintenance and repairs as required.
• Interacts fluently with those in other trades and work areas to complete work assignments;
• Contributes to the department continuous improvement culture.
• Knows and complies with all safety policies and procedures.
• Maintains a clean and well-organized work area.
• Other duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED
• 3 years of experience in Oil & Gas I&E, Automation
• Direct SCADA installation and troubleshooting experience
• Can perform moderately complex repairs and installs independently
• Strong customer relations skills including the ability to explain and train
• Knowledge of proper use of hand tools
• Knowledge of wiring and control theory
• Analytical and problem solving ability
• Ability to follow prescribed company policies, procedures, and protocols for installation, service and equipment maintenance
• Interact politely and professionally with customers and/or coworkers
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers, clients, and customers
• Ability to effectively plan and organize
• Follow all safety policies and company-wide safety requirements; encourage action assuring safe behavior; confront unsafe behavior and conditions proactively and positively
• Work in excess of 8 hours per day and 40 hours per week, as required to meet business needs
• Work in an unsupervised environment
• Use a computer to communicate, create, and access data
• Determine the priorities, goals, and objectives of work assigned

Physical Demands:

• Role is deemed safety-sensitive and may be subject to employer or customer drug testing.
• Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Physical Activities
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knees.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward, or outward.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul, or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than the whole hand or arm as in handling.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to customer or other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motion: Substantial movement (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers to use a computer.
• The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: visual inspection involving small defects, small parts and/or operation of machines (including inspection), using measurement devices, and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes.
• The employee is required to have visual acuity to operate motor vehicles.
• The employee is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, thoroughness of work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures.
• Indoor and outdoor environmental conditions. Activities occur indoors and outdoors.
• Extreme heat. Temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of more than one hour. Consideration should be given to the effect of other environmental conditions, such as wind and humidity.
• Hazards. Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical current or exposure to chemicals.
• Atmospheric conditions. One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system or the skin: fumes, odors, dust, mists, gases, or poor ventilation.
• Oils. There is air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Apprentice Electrical License within a year of testing for Journeyman License
• Direct experience with Gas Lift, and/or Chemical Injection automation
• Direct experience commissioning and calibrating instrumentation equipment i.e. transmitters, transducers etc.

About Us:
ChampionX is now part of SLB, a global technology company driving energy innovation for a balanced planet. As innovators, that's been our mission for nearly a century.

We are a technology company that unlocks access to energy for the benefit of all. Today, we face a global imperative to create a future with more energy, but less carbon. Our diverse, innovative change makers are focused on going further in innovation and inventing the new energy technologies we need to get there.

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