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Overview

Join Grundfos as a Senior Service Technician, where you will solve complex water treatment challenges and mentor junior technicians while delivering exceptional customer experiences. This remote position requires Texas residency and offers a supportive culture focused on growth and well-being.

Responsibilities

  • Perform startup, commissioning, customer training, and troubleshooting for midrange electrical rotating equipment including aeration mixers, deaerators, and water softening systems.
  • Conduct startup, commissioning, and seeding for advanced membrane-based systems including MBR and RO technologies.
  • Diagnose and resolve mechanical and electrical issues including PLC panel troubleshooting to minimize downtime and optimize system performance.
  • Support retrofits across water treatment systems, enhancing equipment functionality and longevity.
  • Build training documentation for all Newterra product lines, including policies, procedures, and PowerPoints.
  • Mentor Level I technicians, build training documentation, and use CRM/SharePoint tools to track root cause analysis and document service activities.
  • Coordinate travel schedules, customer communications, and onsite service visits independently while participating in handoff meetings with Project Managers and End Users.

Requirements

  • Intermediate water treatment knowledge and strong mechanical and electrical troubleshooting skills.
  • Experience commissioning and troubleshooting water treatment systems with midrange electrical components including mixers, pumps, HMI/SCADA controls, and instrumentation.
  • Basic understanding of electrical drawings, P&IDs, and 4-20mA instrumentation and scaling.
  • Valid driver's license along with a valid passport and a clean driving record.
  • Willingness to travel up to 75% of the time.
  • Strong mechanical aptitude and ability to lift to 50 lbs.
  • Proficiency with CRM systems and record-keeping.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

This is a remote position; however, candidates must reside in Texas and be available for travel as business needs require.

Benefits

Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $36/hr, this posting sits about 11% above the $32/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX — toward the top of a $23–$41/hr middle band drawn from 92 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 66% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Houston, TX

We're tracking 344 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 194 different employers. 138 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,245 other active welding openings from 549 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.

GRUNDFOS currently has 1 other opening 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 (39), Zachry Group (30), and Welding Shop in Houston, TX (22). 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, Arlington at $39/hr, and Dallas at $36/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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