Utility Specialist Austin Industrial (Channelview, TX)

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.

Utility Specialist

Must be able to maintain and monitor water and Tank cleaning efforts while staying compliant with RCRA disposal, DOT regulations, and HAZWOPER certifications. Other duties may be assigned.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs all tasks in a safe and responsible manner.


• Maintain trash route for trash truck throughout facility.


• Monitor and maintain facility rain outfalls.


• Responsible for directing the Containers Storage Area (CSA).


• Monitor vacuum trucks with chemical and water, including oil spills, berms for exchanger work, skim life stations, and maintaining sumps and containments throughout facility.


• Performs daily and regular cleaning and light maintenance tasks on machinery and equipment.


• Support tank cleaning efforts during spills.


• Shipping and transportation of site waste.


• Responsible for staff and collecting time sheets on up to 10 direct reports.


• Complies with all quality policies, specifications, regulations and instructions.


• Other duties as assigned.

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 accommodations 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 Required for this Position:

Education – no minimum education requirements.

Experience – 1 years of experience.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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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). 

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