Instrumentation Technician

Flint Hills; Corpus Christi (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Flint Hills Resources is seeking an Instrumentation Technician to join the Maintenance Team at our Corpus Christi Refinery. You will troubleshoot, maintain, and calibrate instrumentation and control systems across refinery assets to ensure safe, reliable operations.

The role includes supporting turnaround activities, coordinating work, and ensuring proper documentation. A valid US driver's license and refinery/process plant experience are required, with opportunities for growth.

Qualifications

• Two or more years' experience in the Instrumentation craft in refinery, petrochemical, or process plant environments.
• Two or more years of hands-on experience maintaining, troubleshooting, calibrating, and repairing industrial instrumentation and control devices.
• Possess a valid US Driver's License.
• Associates of Applied Science degree or certification in industrial instrumentation or similar.
• Five or more years' experience in instrumentation craft in refinery, petrochemical, or process plant environments.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot, diagnose, repair, and calibrate instrumentation and control equipment in operating refinery process units.
• Perform preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance on instrumentation systems to support safe and reliable operations.
• Support turnaround activities by identifying scope opportunities, creating work orders, coordinating assigned work activities, and executing instrumentation maintenance tasks.
• Collaborate with operations, maintenance, and engineering teams to resolve equipment issues and improve asset reliability.
• Maintain accurate maintenance documentation and ensure work is completed in accordance with site safety and operational procedures.
• Work a 4/10 day-shift schedule (Monday through Thursday) and participate in an after-hours on-call rotation.

Skills

Instrumentation experience

Troubleshooting

Maintenance

Valid US Driver's License

Education

Associate of Applied Science in industrial instrumentation or similar

Job description

Your Job

Flint Hills Resources is seeking a skilled Instrumentation Technician to join the Maintenance Team at our Corpus Christi Refinery. In this role, you will help ensure the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of refinery assets by troubleshooting, maintaining, and calibrating a wide range of instrumentation and control systems across the site.

Our Team

Our Instrumentation Team is responsible for maintaining more than 50,000 field devices and control elements across the refinery, including transmitters, control valves, analyzers, switches, solenoids, controllers, and wireless instrumentation. We are a highly collaborative group of experienced craftspeople and developing technicians who are committed to operational excellence, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing. Whether you are an experienced technician or looking to further develop your expertise, we are invested in helping our employees grow and succeed.

What You Will Do

• Troubleshoot, diagnose, repair, and calibrate instrumentation and control equipment in operating refinery process units.
• Perform preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance on instrumentation systems to support safe and reliable operations.
• Support turnaround activities by identifying scope opportunities, creating work orders, coordinating assigned work activities, and executing instrumentation maintenance tasks.
• Collaborate with operations, maintenance, and engineering teams to resolve equipment issues and improve asset reliability.
• Maintain accurate maintenance documentation and ensure work is completed in accordance with site safety and operational procedures.
• Work a 4/10 day-shift schedule (Monday through Thursday) and participate in an after-hours on-call rotation.

Physical Requirements of the role

• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds (with frequent carrying of up to 25 pounds)
• Physical ability to frequently stand, walk, lift, carry, push, pull, reach, handle, bend, twist, climb (~200 ft) and balance
• Ability & willingness to utilize Personal Protective Equipment (for example: hard hat, safety glasses, fire retardant clothing, respirator, safety work boots, etc. as required)
• Must be able to adequately hear alarms and other sounds which may indicate a safety concern
• Must be able to communicate hazardous conditions and other dangers
• Must be able to work near moving mechanical parts, work in wet or humid conditions (non-weather) and outdoor weather conditions, work in high, precarious places and work around fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Two (2) or more years' experience in the Instrumentation craft working in a refinery, petrochemical, or process plant environment
• Two (2) or more years of hands-on experience maintaining, troubleshooting, calibrating, and repairing industrial instrumentation and control devices used in manufacturing or process environments.
• Possess a valid US Driver's License

What Will Put You Ahead

• Associates of applied Science degree or certification in industrial instrumentation or similar
• Five (5) or more years' experience in the Instrumentation craft working in a refinery, petrochemical, or process plant environment

This role is subject to a pre-hire physical abilities test.

This role is subject to the Transportation Workers Identification Credentialing (TWIC) rule and requires the successful candidate to obtain a TWIC identification badge, allowing for un-escorted access to the facility within a specific time period.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Flint Hills Resources is an industry-leading refining company making the oil and transportation products that keep the world moving. We make a large supply of fuel for gas stations and airports in addition to transporting crude oil, natural gas liquids and refined products through 4,000+ miles of pipeline - delivering energy to farmers, manufacturers and families. Our team champions innovation and excellence to help power modern life.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

• Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify.