Instrumentation Technician – Austin Industrial Decatur, IL BIO

Austin External; Decatur (IL); On-site; USD 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

100% Employee-Owned (ESOP)

401K match

Job summary

Austin Industrial is seeking a full-time maintenance technician to install, test, calibrate, troubleshoot, overhaul and repair electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems across our industrial services. The role emphasizes reading manuals, schematics, and testing specs to ensure optimum operating performance.

The position involves overtime; candidates should be able to handle demanding environments and maintain up-to-date electrician licensure or IDs to meet state regulations.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years journeyman level experience.
• Ability to read manuals, schematics and testing specs.

Responsibilities

• Layout, fabricate and install tubing and trays.
• 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 read/interpate procedures.
• Understand pH and redox and related measurement equipment.
• Work with Ohm’s Law and Kirchhoff’s Law and components.
• Understand steam and its reactions in processes.
• Understand chemistry and physics principles used in instrumentation.
• Troubleshoot electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic systems with proper test equipment.
• Understand instrumentation loops and their components.
• Know common chemical plant equipment such as distillation columns, heat exchangers, boilers, turbines, and compressors.

Skills

Electrical troubleshooting

Schematic literacy

PLC knowledge

Instrumentation basics

Blueprints & loops

Tools

Multimeter

Calibration tools

Testing equipment

Wiring knowledge

Job description

Must be able to install, test, calibrate, troubleshoot, overhaul and repair electrical, 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, wiring or instrumentation schematics and testing specifications. Must be able to troubleshoot electric motors, install wiring to circuits, etc. Must have some knowledge of electrical schematics and PLC’s. Other duties may be assigned.

This is a full time maintenance position working 40 hour per week with some overtime. There is no per diem, no relocation funding, and no hotel allotment for this position.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• 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 Kirchhoff’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.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Education— no minimum education requirements.

Experience— 3-5 years of Journeyman level experience.

Benefits & Compensation

We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and a matching 401K plan. We are proud to be a 100% Employee-Owned Company (ESOP)! To learn more about our employee-ownership structure, please go to https://www.austin-ind.com/our-company/100-employee-owned.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.

To learn more about us, visit https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/industrial .

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

Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.

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