Pipeline Technician jobs in Houston, TX

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The individual in this position must use initiative and judgment arranging job details to achieve predetermined objectives. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Maintains a neat, clean, and safe work environment within the Manufacturing facility.
• Performs preventive maintenance on machinery and the building or grounds as required.
• Must have the ability to recognize potential problems and quickly report such concerns to the Manager.
• Detects and reports defective materials or questionable conditions during routine inspections of facilities equipment to the Maintenance Coordinator.
• Participate in emergency action plan procedures.
• Troubleshoot, analyze, and maintain testing and facility equipment.
• Install and monitor hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical equipment.
• Electrical and mechanical equipment trouble shooting.
• Support testing and monitoring of production equipment.
• Operate industrial equipment (forklifts, overhead cranes, manlifts)
• Maintain and install equipment.
• Read blueprints to determine manufacturing specifications.
• Capable of modifying and improving equipment and fabricating ancillary parts and structural pieces, as needed.
• Perform routine tests and preventative maintenance programs and manufacturing equipment.
• Write up complete parts list of items needed.
• Perform routine tests and preventative maintenance programs and manufacturing equipment.
• Analyze machine failures due to mechanical, electrical, or electronic problems and perform or suggest necessary corrective actions.
• Make visual inspections and use standard mechanical and electrical test equipment.
• Install and align motors, gearboxes, drive trains, and other mechanical power transmissions systems.
• Align, adjust, and calibrate equipment according to specifications.
• Repair and monitor hydraulic, mechanical, and mechanical power transmitting systems.
• Support production activities of all production lines to ensure the proper function of manufacturing equipment.
• Job planning/scheduling and kitting.
• Assist in training at all levels.
• Material, part specification, and purchasing.
• Other duties as assigned.

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.

• Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; stand, walk and sit; talk and hear.
• Close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Regularly lift and move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and move up to 40 pounds.
• Ability to clearly hear voices or alarms, bells, and other noise.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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  Plant/Shop/Field Services:
  • Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; and risk of electrical shock.
  • Regularly exposed to wet and humid conditions (outside weather conditions); high, precarious places; extreme cold; extreme heat and vibration.
  • Occasionally exposed to the risk of radiation or electrical shock.
  • The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.