About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of 4,000 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency.

Austin Industrial is currently seeking a Pipefitter Foreman to join our staff located at Houston, TX. They must provide continuous oversight of execution of maintenance work, communication any deviations to work, communication any deviations to work schedules, ensuring any noted improvements to the execution process are clearly communicated, and necessary closure and reliability data is promptly inputted for each job. This is accomplished by performing the following essential duties and responsibilities. Other duties may be assigned.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

Supervisory Responsibilities - May directly or indirectly supervise workers in the Operations Department. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the Austin Industrial's policies & procedures and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

• Responds as necessary to support emergency and reactive orders
• Reviews call-outs with maintenance coordinator
• Reviews job scope and timing and assigns appropriate crafts to complete emergency and reactive orders during normal working hours
• Provides technical support or solicits support to conduct root cause failure analysis
• Provides technical support or solicits support to initiate the MOC process, if necessary
• Ensures that documentation is completed and that tools and material are returned or repaired
• Participates in the development of quality job plans by working with the planners and participates in the field walk through
• Participates in the development of the weekly maintenance work schedule
• Reviews and fills assigned job packages
• Provides resource availability count to scheduler
• Reviews schedule and provides constructive feedback, as necessary
• Ensures published schedule is executed as planned or ensures that necessary adjustments are made
• Prints work orders and assign craftsmen
• Makes resource changes based on input from scheduler (maintenance coordination and equipment availability)
• Leads tool box safety meetings, communicates schedule changes, as necessary, and reviews job scopes with craftsmen
• Communicates and makes necessary adjustments to complete or reschedules jobs that go beyond original scope of work
• Ensures the MOC process is initiated for job scope changes
• Works with material coordinator to get tools and materials for scope changes and to return non-stock parts, tools and equipment at the ne of the job
• Interacts with work permitting process as needed and ensures that all applicable safety procedures are followed
• Ensures that jobs are properly completed in a timely fashion
• Ensures unused stock parts are returned to the storeroom
• Ensures rental equipment is taken off rent and necessary changes to requisitions are made
• Ensures vendor operations are properly closed
• Ensures that repairable parts process is properly initiated
• Ensures proper job plan feedback is provided to the planners from craftsmen
• Participates in the identification and implementation of reliably driven improvements
• Ensures work group has a full understanding of the workflow process
• Ensures operations on an order which are complete
• Ensures all history/reliability data has been entered
• Promptly close orders upon job completion

Physical Demands:
• 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 accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell.
• The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Qualifications:

• Experience - 7+ years of Industrial and Supervisory experience preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills

Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• NCCER Certification
• Valid Driver's License
• TWIC Card with TWIC Pin# required
• Meet physical demands as listed above
  Ability to work overtime, weekends, and holidays as needed by the assigned location
• Applicants must be legally able to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visa for this position.

Benefits & Compensation

We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and a matching 401K plan. We are proud to be a 100% Employee-Owned Company (ESOP)! To learn more about our employee-ownership structure, please go to https://www.austin-ind.com/our-company/100-employee-owned.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.

To learn more about us, visit https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/industrial.

No Third-Party Inquiries Please

This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes, or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (i.e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners become the property of the Company.

Accessibility Note

If you are a job seeker with a disability and require reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs or have accessibility concerns, please contact the People Services Team at (877) 831-1217.

Equal Opportunity Employer

This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.
For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.