Job Description

Overview

The Repair Specialist II position in Pearland, Texas involves creating and improving repair processes for equipment overhauls, ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards, and providing technical support to craft labor in the manufacturing and overhaul processes.

Responsibilities

  • Foster an environment of teamwork, compliance, and continual improvement.
  • Adhere to the Company's objectives, including Safety, Quality, Environmental, and Information Security.
  • Ensure compliance with departmental standard procedures.
  • Act as a first line source of information and technical support to craft labor for manufacturing and overhaul process issues.
  • Interpret inspection results and provide inspection reports with recommended repairs.
  • Evaluate manufacturing processes using knowledge of product design and materials.
  • Create shop floor work packages with systematic instructions and relevant technical documents.
  • Create in-process inspection forms when required.
  • Enter Purchase Requisitions into SAP for necessary parts and materials.
  • Improve manufacturing efficiency by analyzing workflow and equipment layout.
  • Interface with Engineering, Quality, and Project Management during project life-cycles.
  • Act as backup and support for other Repair Specialists when required.
  • Monitor project progress and engage with personnel and vendors to enact next steps.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • 5-10 years of applicable rotating equipment and/or repair shop experience.
  • Strong interpersonal skills with excellent oral and written communication.
  • Strong background in machining, manufacturing, overhaul/repair, and assembly of heavy-duty rotating equipment.
  • Experience creating basic tooling drawings utilizing CAD software.
  • Familiarity with API RP 687 (rotor repairs).
  • Strong skills with MS Office and MS Project.
  • Understanding of material recovery techniques for rotating equipment overhaul.
  • Understanding of heat treatment required during manufacturing and refurbishment.
  • Ability to define measurement techniques including setup and tooling selection.
  • Understanding of appropriate non-destructive testing methods.
  • Familiarity with pressure testing and associated risk-mitigation strategies.

Additional Information

  • Ability to sit and work in front of a computer.
  • Ability to spend time on the shop floor standing and walking.
  • Minor lifting of files and/or boxes.
  • Able to work extended hours or different shifts during customer outages.
  • Work environment includes both shop and office.

How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Houston, TX currently run a median of $27/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$37/hr across 86 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Houston, TX

We're tracking 341 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 192 different employers. 95 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,256 other active welding openings from 596 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.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (29), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (27), and Zachry Group (23). 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 Midlothian at $38/hr, Irving at $38/hr, and Pasadena at $37/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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