Job Description

Overview

Chart Industries designs and builds advanced cryogenic equipment, focusing on solving complex problems for various industries. They are seeking an independent and self-motivated Field Service Technician to provide service and technical support for cryogenic applications.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure timely and continuous quality service to the customer, by phone or site visits when necessary.
  • Work with manager on customer communication.
  • Prepare detailed service reports.
  • Maintain tools and test equipment used for commissioning/service.
  • Coordinate contact with all levels of supervision.
  • Troubleshoot control systems.
  • Read and understand electrical schematics and use troubleshooting tools and meters.
  • Read and understand plumbing schematics.
  • Coordinate, perform and report results from testing.
  • Adhere to contractual service agreements per sales and customer service directives.
  • Perform quality tests as instructed to ensure product quality.
  • Weld using MIG and/or TIG in field conditions.
  • Install equipment including bulk tanks, pipe, vaporizers, skids, dosers, etc.
  • Utilize ISO 9000 knowledge and application standards.
  • Observe and practice safety procedures and policies.

Requirements

  • Preferred 2+ years’ experience, Tig welding experience, preferably with piping.
  • Preferred 2+ years mechanical experience in industrial maintenance, automotive, diesel, heavy equipment repair industry.
  • Excellent communication skills used in answering customer’s questions and performing field service.
  • Ability to read electrical and plumbing schematics preferred.
  • Work well in teams and independently.
  • Read and understand detailed blueprints.
  • Must possess a working knowledge of personal computers including MS Office, JD Edwards.
  • Basic understanding of Industrial Controls and PLC’s is a plus.
  • Basic understanding of cryogenic liquids and gases, and thermodynamics is a plus.
  • Technical diploma/Certification required, preferably welding, maintenance, mechanic related.

Additional Information

  • Extensive travel to customer sites.
  • Both outdoor and indoor work.
  • Office and plant work.
  • Exposure to metal cuttings and welding odors.
  • May involve exposure to temperature extremes.
  • Occasional weekend and holiday work.
  • Required use of personal protective equipment.
  • Frequent standing, sitting, bending, stooping, twisting, and walking.
  • Frequent lifting up to 75 lbs., occasional heavier lifting.
  • Occasional pushing, pulling of materials up to 40 lbs.

How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $31/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX, whose middle half runs $22–$40/hr across 77 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 49% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Houston, TX

We're tracking 310 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 183 different employers. 36 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,145 other active welding openings from 527 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Houston, or widen the search to Texas.

Chart Industries, Inc. currently has 5 other openings live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (35), Zachry Group (28), and Worley (18). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Old Sixth Ward at $40/hr, Dallas at $36/hr, and Pasadena at $36/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG and TIG work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Field Service Tech figures were last recalculated when this page was built.