Variable Speed Drive Technician I

Disclaimer: SLB completed the acquisition of ChampionX on July 16, 2025. If selected for this position, your employment will begin with ChampionX and will transition to SLB as part of the planned integration.

We are looking for a Drive Shop Variable Speed Drive (VSD) Technician located in Odessa, TX. This is your opportunity to join a global technology company, driving energy innovation for a balanced planet.

What’s in it For You:

• You will join a growing company offering competitive pay and benefits
• Access to best-in-class resources, tools, and technology
• Opportunity for a long term, advanced career path
• A culture that values safety first, including training and personal protection

What You Will Do:

• Performs operational support activities for Variable Speed Drives and other equipment and system products such as wiring, cabling, and other complex equipment, usually in the shop environment but some potential field exposure. 
• Using company guidelines, performs on-site preventative maintenance, routine repair, and calibration. 
• Perform emergency repairs. 
• Troubleshoot communications packages
• Troubleshoot all VSD or Switchboard types
• May also be responsible for providing technical support for service technicians on VSDs or other surface equipment in the field.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Basic knowledge of industrial safety
• Basic knowledge of proper use of hand tools
• Basic knowledge of wiring and cabling
• Ability to execute strategies and initiatives
• Analytical and problem-solving ability
• Intermediate oral and written communication skills
• Organization and time management skills
• Basic math skills
• Ability to follow prescribed company policies, procedures, and protocols for installation, service, and equipment maintenance
• Interact politely and professionally with customers and/or coworkers
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers, clients, and customers
• Ability to effectively plan and organize
• Follow all safety policies and company-wide safety requirements; encourage action assuring safe behavior; confront unsafe behavior and conditions proactively and positively
• Work in excess of 8 hours per day and 40 hours per week, as required to meet business needs
• Work in an unsupervised environment
• Read, write, and speak English fluently
• Use a computer to communicate, create, and access data
• Determine the priorities, goals, and objectives of work assigned
• Immigration sponsorship not offered for this role

Physical Demands:

• Role is deemed safety-sensitive and may be subject to employer or customer drug testing.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
• Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
• Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces.
• Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knees.
• Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward, or outward.
• Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul, or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position.
• Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than the whole hand or arm as in handling.
• Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.  Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to customer or other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.  Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
• Substantial movement (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers to use a computer.

• The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: visual inspection involving small defects, small parts and/or operation of machines (including inspection), using measurement devices, and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes.
• The employee is required to have visual acuity to operate motor vehicles.
• The employee is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, thoroughness of work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures.

• Indoor and outdoor environmental conditions.  Activities occur indoors and outdoors.
• Extreme heat.  Temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of more than one hour.  Consideration should be given to the effect of other environmental conditions, such as wind and humidity.
• Hazards.  Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical current or exposure to chemicals.
• Atmospheric conditions.  One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system or the skin:  fumes, odors, dust, mists, gases, or poor ventilation.
• Oils. There is air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in troubleshooting variable speed drives or switchboards
• Experience working with Transformers
• Experience with Serial and TCP Communications

About Us:

ChampionX is now part of SLB, a global technology company driving energy innovation for a balanced planet. As innovators, that’s been our mission for nearly a century.

We are a technology company that unlocks access to energy for the benefit of all. As innovators, that’s been our mission for nearly a century. Today, we face a global imperative to create a future with more energy, but less carbon. Our diverse, innovative change makers are focused on going further in innovation and inventing the new energy technologies we need to get there.

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We believe the best teams are diverse and inclusive, and we are on a journey to create a workplace where every employee can grow and achieve their best. We are committed to fair and equal treatment of employees and applicants. We recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement on the basis of individual qualifications and job performance. In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, we will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran.