Instrument Tech-Austin Industrial (Baytown, TX)

Austin External; Baytown (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Austin Industrial is seeking an Instrument Tech for Baytown, TX. The role involves testing, calibrating, troubleshooting, and repairing instrumentation devices, with focus on industrial process controls, electrical schematics, and PLCs.

Candidates should read blueprints, install tubing, and interpret testing specifications. Responsibilities include calibration, installation, and maintenance of instrumentation, plus data collection and reports.

Qualifications

• Education: High school diploma or GED; or 1–3 years related experience. NCCER certified and State Electrical License.
• Plant Maintenance experience preferred.
• 3–5 years of Journeyman level experience.

Responsibilities

• Reads and works from related blueprints and other schematic drawings.
• Calibrates, installs and/or removes instrumentation devices.
• Cuts, bends and installs tubing for proper installation of instrumentation devices.
• Reads and understands quality control manuals and testing specifications to obtain data for testing/calibration.
• Sets controls to regulate variables (current, pressure, temperature) per specs.
• Disassembles devices to diagnose faults and routes to repair/salvage.
• Reads blueprints/schematics/loop drawings and prepares job reports.
• Assembles and disassembles electronic/process controls and hydraulic systems.

Education

High school diploma or GED

NCCER certified

State Electrical License

Job description

Instrument Tech-Austin Industrial (Baytown, TX)

Job Category: Craft

Requisition Number: INSTR034478

• Posted : October 6, 2026
• Full-Time

Locations

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Baytown, TX, USA

Description

Instrumentation and Electrician Technician

Must be able to 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. Ability to read and understand manuals, blueprint schematics and testing specifications. Must have some knowledge of electrical schematics and PLCs. Other duties may be assigned.

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.

Qualifications

Education: High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. NCCER certified and State Electrical License. Plant Maintenance experience preferred.

Certifications/ Licenses: NCCER, TDLR Electrical License, TWIC and DL

Experience: 3-5 years of Journeyman level experience.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

• See the “Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision” poster available in English and Spanish .

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 (e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

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