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About This Role
Dow has an exciting job opportunity for an Instrument & Electrical Technician in Victoria, TX
The purpose of this job is to provide instrument and electrical maintenance support. The incumbent will be responsible for installing, testing and maintaining industrial electrical equipment and control systems in a safe manner.
In this role, you will be using your prior related experience, job-related training, or vocational training to complete routine activities. You will need to have basic technical or administrative skills to follow the established and approved work processes. You will need to understand how these assigned duties relate to other jobs within your workgroup and be able to exchange basic technical information with other team members.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for maintaining and repairing all types of instrument systems.
- Troubleshoot, diagnose, and replace defective components on instrumentation.
- Ability to read electrical, logic, and loop diagrams
- Electronic troubleshooting and repair skills are used
- Check Calibrations on gauge, absolute, and differential pressure cells
- Check transmitters for flow indication accuracy
- Check transmitters for level indication accuracy
- Check conductivity meters for accuracy
- Check transmitters for temperature indicated accuracy
- Perform routine checks and calibrations on shut-down systems. Ex. Triconex, modicon, relay logic, ABB
- Recalibrate instrument during major overhauls
- Calibrate electronic transmitters (Non smart transmitters with zero span adjustments)
- Calibrate pneumatic transmitters
- Calibrate final control mechanisms, such as automatically controlled valves or positioners
- Calibrate and zero-unit combustible detectors
- Calibrate mass flow meters, such as Coriolis meters
- Calibrate and repair transducers/isolators and converters
- Check and set regulators
- Check and set vacuum, pressure, and temperature switches
- Check and calibrate speed transmitters
- Check and calibrate vibration equipment
- Check and calibrate smart transmitters (using communicator/computer interface)
- Procedure use - this includes field use, review, revise, and development of procedures.
- Demonstrate the use of the following test equipment (Multimeter, Continuity Tester, Megohmmeter (Megger) and
- Identify and explain ground fault circuit interrupters
- Properly identify, install/connect and support various lighting fixture systems (Fluorescent, Incandescent, Industrial weatherproof/hazardous lighting, metal halide, etc.)
- Read and interpret a SEOLD - Safe Electrical One Line Diagram and identify and understand auxiliary circuits associated with each piece of equipment
- Specify, comply and verify equipment for hazardous area classifications according to the hazardous area classification drawing
- Test to identify grounds, opens, insulation integrity and shorts, perform preventative, predictive maintenance (PPM) and hook-up using different transformer nameplate diagrams
- Identify and connect motor controls for specific applications
Required Qualifications
- Must have a High School diploma or GED and one of the following:
- A minimum of an Associates Instrumentation Degree, Electronics Degree, or similar. In lieu of a degree Dow will consider those with 3 or more years of relevant Military training/experience.
- NCCER certified in Instrumentation (NCCER Certification obtained through an Instructor Led Training Program is a preference).
- A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in instrumentation and/or electrical.
- Able to work on a 4-10 schedule (4 days per week at 10 hours per day) with occasional overtime as dictated by business needs. Participates in an after-hour call rotation for night and weekend coverage.
- Current, valid US driver’s license.
- A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States. No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process.
Preferred Qualifications
- SAP Experience
- ADEPT Experience
- Proficiency in Microsoft applications, such as Word and Excel, and can learn new systems quickly.
Physical Demands
- Able to meet the following physical demands of the job, with or without reasonable accommodations:
- The ability to perform physical work such as handling of equipment.
- Must be willing and able to perform frequent bending, reaching, and lifting.
- Required to drive a fork truck and yard goat/mule.
- Required be able to work outdoors in the plant in all types of weather, climb stairs and ladders, walk and be able to lift a minimum of 50 lbs.
- Ability to climb stairs/ladders while performing in an elevated work environment greater than or equal to four feet above the ground.
- Must be willing and able to stand or walk for extended periods of time.
- Must be able to work in tight or closed-in spaces.
- Work at heights greater than or equal to 4 ft off the ground. Must be able to wear and use personal protective equipment (PPE), including harnesses with a total weight capacity of 300lbs. (This typically accommodates individuals who weigh 285 or less).
Skills
- Troubleshooting: Identifies and repairs problems with electrical equipment, instrumentation, and control systems.
- Instrument Calibration: Checks and adjusts instruments to ensure accurate pressure, flow, level, and temperature readings.
- Electrical Maintenance: Installs, tests, maintains, and repairs industrial electrical equipment and components.
- Diagram Reading: Reads and follows electrical, logic, loop, and one-line diagrams to complete work correctly.
- Safety and Procedure Use: Follows established procedures, electrical safety requirements, and hazardous area practices when performing maintenance.
Additional Notes
- This position does not offer relocation assistance.
Benefits – What Dow offers you
We invest in you.
Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career. You bring your background, talent, and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.
Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:
- Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
- Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.
- Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
- Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).
- Dow will take the value of monthly student debt payments and apply them as if they are contributions to the Employees’ Savings Plan (401(k)), helping employees reach the Company match.
- Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs. Travel insurance is also available in certain countries/locations.
- Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
- Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
- Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
- Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
- Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
- Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.
- Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.
- On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
- Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.
- Additionally, some of our locations might offer:
- Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location)
- Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location)
- Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)
Join our team, we can make a difference together.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 30 countries and employ approximately 36,000 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $43 billion in 2024. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visiting www.dow.com.
As part of our dedication to inclusion, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available on www.dow.com.
Dow is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to providing opportunities without regard for race, color, religion, sex, including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity, national origin, age, disability and genetic information, including family medical history. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may call us at 1-833-My Dow HR (833-693-6947) and select option 8.
