DC Shop Technician

CRB Water; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

CRB Water in Houston, TX, is seeking a fabrication-focused technician to join our hands-on shop team. You will work with metals, plastics, piping, and electrical components, reading designs and fabricating parts to spec.

Ideal candidates have strong tool skills, basic math, and the ability to work safely in a fast-paced environment while delivering accurate results and supporting project deadlines.

Qualifications

• Strong fabrication skills with focus on accurate results.
• Team-oriented problem solving.
• Willingness to learn new equipment, hardware, techniques, and products.
• Good time management and attention to detail.
• Basic math including fractions.
• Ability to use common hand tools and fabrication equipment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a safe, clean, organized work environment.
• Fabricate per project drawings using hand and power tools.
• Read, interpret, and fabricate per design drawings.
• Fabricate with metals, plastics, piping, and electrical components.
• Perform equipment maintenance or installation as needed and assigned.

Skills

Fabrication

Teamwork

Self-starter

Time management

Basic math

Hand tools

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Technical trade school or equivalent

On-site client facilities exposure

Job description

CRB Water is one of the fastest-growing industrial water treatment companies in North America. We are built on the belief that people, not programs, make the partnership thrive. Headquartered in St. Charles, Missouri, we combine deep technical expertise with responsive local support to deliver smarter, greener, and more reliable solutions for industrial and commercial facilities.

With a large contingent of employee investors, we are beholden to our clients, not the stock market. Our ownership structure ensures commitment to long-term growth and investment in our people. Our team includes some of the most experienced professionals in the industry who thrive in a collaborative, relationship-driven culture where expertise, trust, and responsiveness matter.

At CRB Water, you’ll find minimal hierarchy, fast decisions, and the autonomy to act when customers need you most. We value ownership, integrity, and teamwork and we’re intentional about being the employer of choice in industrial water treatment. Join a company where your ideas move fast, your expertise makes a difference, and your impact lasts.

Required skills:

• Must exhibit strong fabrication skills with focus on producing accurate results.
• Works well within a team environment to solve project and business issues.
• Must be a good self-starter and has the ability and desire to learn new equipment, hardware, techniques, and products.
• Strong time management skills and attention to details.
• Basic math skills including use of fractions.
• Ability to use common hand tools and fabrication equipment, such as power saws.

Preferred Skills:

• Interpreting fabrication drawings, schematics and diagrams for mechanical, piping and electrical systems
• Ability to measure, mark, cutt, trim and shape materials like metal, plastic, or wood.
• Welding, brazing and soldering pieces to create finished parts.
• Understanding of mechanical, plumbing, and electrical fabrication, construction, and manipulation methods.
• Good troubleshooting, testing and maintenance skills for mechanical, plumbing, and electrical systems
• Strong candidates will demonstrate spatial reasoning, communication and observational skills.
• Understanding of prioritization of work as it relates to project scheduling and execution.

Job Description:

• Maintain a safe, clean, organized work environment.
• Work in fabrication shop utilizing basic hand and power tools, taking accurate measurements, cutting and fitting off- the-shelf and custom components.
• Overtime may be required during peak times.
• Read, interpret, and fabricated per project design drawings.
• Rationalize design drawings, identifying problems related to fabrication prior to execution.
• Fabrication with various plastics and polymer structural members, and piping, including fitting, joining, sealing, and welding.
• Fabrication with various Metal and Alloy Pipe and Tubing, including fitting, joining, sealing, and bending.
• Fabrication with various Metals, Plastics, and Bonded Conduit, including fitting, joining, sealing, and bending.
• Fabrication with various Metallic and Fiberglass structural members, including Strut, Beam, Channel, Angle, Grate, etc.
• Fabrication with various Metallic and fiberglass enclosures, panel construction, and Electrical Wiring.
• Fabrication with various Electrical Wiring in Control Panels, Induction and DC Motors, Variable Frequency and DC Drives, Instrumentation and Electronics.
• Redline design drawings to be resubmitted to the Engineering Department for correction based on final construction.
• Perform administrative and related responsibilities as assigned.
• Perform building maintenance as needed and assigned.
• Perform equipment maintenance or installation as needed and assigned.

Required Education:

• High School Degree or G.E.D.
• Preferred candidates will have Technical Trade School training or equivalent experience in mechanical and electrical drafting.
• Spends most of the time in a small business shop environment.
• Some time may be spent out of the office at client facilities for installation, repair, or alteration of new or existing equipment.

Physical Demands:

• Frequent lifting, pulling, standing, and equipment operations up to 50 lbs.
• Work in a principally unconditioned shop environment.
• Picking parts, packaging equipment, boxing, shipping, moving, and organizing parts and equipment, sitting, standing, walking, wearing personal protective devices, etc.