Valve Technician - Military Veterans

Our client is a leading distributor of industrial process control equipment, systems, and services in the southwest region of the US including North, East, and West Texas, Oklahoma, Western Arkansas, and New Mexico. They are actively seeking military veteran technicians with mechanical maintenance and troubleshooting backgrounds.

In the role of a Valve Technician, the candidate is responsible for ensuring the highest level of customer satisfaction while testing, inspecting, and repairing pressure relief valves (PRV), flow control valves, regulators, electronic instrumentation, and electric actuators for industries such as power, oil and gas, refining, chemicals, and food and beverage. You will perform independent field work, work as a member of a larger repair team, and work in a shop.

This individual will be responsible for maintaining a work laptop computer and generating documentation for the customers' maintenance records. This entails a high degree of customer interaction and is deeply embedded in the company's sales process; this position requires good people skills, a sharp personal appearance and a positive attitude at all times. Experience in the power, refining, chemical or oil and gas industry is a plus.

This position will require travel to client sites with many projects requiring multiple overnight stays, weekends, and extended workdays.

Duties and responsibilities:

Perform maintenance, calibration, testing and troubleshooting of valves, pressure relief valves and electric actuators (480v) as well as measurement and valve related instruments. Including, but not limited to:

- Assembly of new equipment or repaired equipment

- Documentation of repair / testing / assembly activities, cause of failure, actions taken, parts used, labor hours, and so on

- Communication with customers, technical assistance, troubleshooting, quoting and determining disposition of repairs

- Participation in field and shop service calls, as required

- Disassembly, cleanup, and evaluation of parts

- Research and develop required parts list for Insides Sales to quote repair

- Sandblast and paint when required

- Coordinate repairs based upon requirements from the customer and company schedulers

- Fill out comprehensive repair reports describing the ?as found? condition, the recommended repairs, and so on

- Recognize, pursue, and secure opportunities to increase the scope of work and products sold whenever possible

- Adherence to all safety, quality, company rules and regulations

- Perform other duties as assigned

Most overtime occurs in the spring and the fall (approx. Feb 15-May 15 and Sept. 15-Dec. 1), so PTO will be limited, if allowed at all, during those times.

Base salary, $80 - $85K, plenty of overtime, an annual bonus, profit sharing, all expenses paid; a company vehicle is provided for all travel. There is relocation on a case by case basis.

Many veterans have been hired into this role because it is such a good fit for their skill sets.

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