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POSITION SUMMARY
The Lead Industrial Valve Technician is a working lead responsible for performing advanced industrial valve inspection, removal, installation, repair, rebuilding, troubleshooting, and testing while coordinating the daily activities of assigned technicians and helpers. The position helps ensure work is performed safely, efficiently, accurately, and in accordance with approved procedures, customer requirements, quality expectations, and supervisor direction.
The Lead Technician serves as the primary technical and task-coordination resource for assigned shop and field work. Responsibilities include reviewing scope, planning work sequence, verifying tools and materials, assigning tasks, providing hands-on instruction, monitoring progress, inspecting workmanship, confirming documentation, and communicating job status and issues. This position leads through technical knowledge and example but does not independently approve scope, pricing, contract terms, personnel actions, or release of equipment unless specifically authorized.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Work Planning and Crew Coordination
- Review work orders, customer instructions, drawings, specifications, procedures, valve information, schedules, and prior service records before work begins.
- Confirm the assigned scope, priorities, acceptance criteria, required documentation, customer contacts, work location, schedule, and known hazards with the responsible supervisor or manager.
- Develop a practical work sequence and identify the technicians, tools, parts, test equipment, lifting equipment, transportation, permits, and other resources needed for the assignment.
- Conduct or support pre-job meetings and communicate responsibilities, work sequence, hazards, quality points, hold points, documentation requirements, and stop-work expectations.
- Assign daily tasks based on employee training, experience, authorization, and job needs and adjust assignments as conditions or priorities change.
- Monitor job progress, labor use, material needs, equipment availability, delays, and completion status and communicate updates to the appropriate supervisor and customer representative.
- Coordinate shop and field activities with customers, operations personnel, safety representatives, other crafts, vendors, and company departments to reduce conflicts and unnecessary downtime.
Advanced Valve Inspection and Technical Evaluation
- Identify valve type, size, pressure class, materials, trim, actuation, service condition, identification markings, and requested scope and verify information against available records.
- Lead incoming, pre-service, in-process, and final inspections and document damage, corrosion, erosion, wear, leakage indicators, missing parts, improper assembly, and other material conditions.
- Measure and evaluate stems, seats, discs, gates, balls, plugs, bodies, bonnets, packing areas, sealing surfaces, fasteners, clearances, and other components using appropriate tools and criteria.
- Diagnose leakage, difficult operation, incomplete travel, seat concerns, packing failure, actuator problems, installation issues, and other valve performance conditions.
- Determine when findings remain within the approved repair scope and when additional parts, machining, welding, engineering review, customer approval, or removal from service must be requested.
- Protect valve and component identification and verify traceability of parts, materials, measurements, inspection findings, and work performed throughout the service process.
- Communicate technical findings accurately and avoid representing assumptions, unapproved repair methods, or incomplete test results as final conclusions.
Hands On Repair Rebuilding and Installation
- Perform and lead safe disassembly, cleaning, inspection, repair, rebuilding, assembly, removal, installation, and adjustment of industrial valves and related equipment.
- Remove and replace packing, gaskets, seals, O-rings, bearings, bushings, fasteners, trim components, and other approved parts.
- Perform or direct approved lapping, grinding, polishing, fitting, deburring, thread cleaning, surface preparation, and related repair activities within assigned authorization.
- Verify that technicians use approved parts, lubricants, sealants, clearances, torque values, assembly sequences, cleanliness controls, and component-protection practices.
- Inspect completed assembly for orientation, alignment, travel, seating, stem operation, packing adjustment, actuator connection, identification, and overall workmanship before testing.
- Lead valve removal and installation activities, including bolting, gasket placement, flange cleaning, alignment, actuator connection, rigging, lifting, staging, and protection of customer equipment.
- Remain actively engaged in hands-on work and perform critical, complex, or high-risk tasks appropriate to training, qualification, and authorization.
Testing and Quality Assurance
- Plan, set up, perform, and oversee approved shell, seat, leakage, functional, travel, torque, hydrostatic, pneumatic, or other tests within applicable procedures and equipment limitations.
- Verify test equipment, hoses, fittings, guards, gauges, relief devices, barriers, calibration status, connections, and test setup before pressurization.
- Confirm applicable test pressure, media, hold time, acceptance criteria, inspection points, controlled area, and depressurization method before testing begins.
- Direct personnel to safe positions, maintain test-area controls, monitor conditions continuously, and stop testing when unsafe, abnormal, or unexpected conditions occur.
- Review test results and documentation, identify failures or questionable results, determine assigned corrective work, and ensure required inspection or testing is repeated after correction.
- Perform final quality review of assigned work and confirm repair, inspection, test, tagging, identification, protective covering, and documentation requirements are complete before requesting release.
- Ensure specialized pressure-relief valve certification, calibration, machining, welding, or other restricted work is performed only by properly trained, qualified, equipped, and authorized personnel.
Safety Leadership
- Model and enforce company, customer, facility, and job-specific safety requirements, permits, energy-control procedures, hazard assessments, and personal protective equipment expectations.
- Verify equipment, lines, vessels, valves, actuators, springs, and related systems have been properly identified, isolated, depressurized, drained, de-energized, and released for work by authorized personnel.
- Maintain awareness of stored pressure, hazardous energy, suspended loads, pinch points, sharp surfaces, hot equipment, chemicals, hydrocarbons, traffic, moving machinery, and changing site conditions.
- Verify employees use rigging, cranes, forklifts, hoists, test equipment, respiratory protection, and other restricted equipment only when trained, qualified, and authorized.
- Exercise stop-work authority and support employees who stop work because scope, isolation, equipment condition, authorization, or safety controls are unclear.
- Correct unsafe acts or conditions within authority and immediately report injuries, incidents, near misses, leaks, spills, test failures, equipment damage, and significant safety concerns.
- Maintain orderly work areas, safe material storage, controlled test zones, effective housekeeping, and proper handling of cleaning materials, lubricants, contaminated components, and waste.
Crew Leadership and Employee Development
- Provide hands-on instruction, demonstration, coaching, and task guidance to technicians and helpers regarding tools, valve components, work methods, inspection, assembly, testing, documentation, and safety.
- Verify employees understand assigned tasks and observe their work closely enough to identify skill gaps, unsafe practices, quality concerns, or the need for additional instruction.
- Encourage questions, reinforce approved procedures, provide constructive feedback, and promote consistent workmanship and accountability.
- Monitor attendance, readiness, conduct, work pace, teamwork, and task completion and report recurring or significant concerns to the appropriate supervisor.
- Provide factual input regarding employee skills, training needs, demonstrated capabilities, and work performance without independently issuing formal discipline or making employment decisions.
- Support structured training and qualification activities and prevent employees from performing work beyond their demonstrated competency or authorization.
Tools Materials and Equipment Control
- Verify required tools, parts, gaskets, packing, seals, fasteners, lubricants, consumables, lifting equipment, test equipment, and service-unit supplies are available before work begins.
- Ensure tools and equipment are inspected before use and damaged, defective, expired, or out-of-calibration items are removed from service and reported.
- Coordinate parts and material needs, maintain component organization, and report shortages, discrepancies, substitutions, or incorrect materials before installation.
- Maintain accountability for company and customer tools, equipment, parts, removed components, test instruments, service vehicles, and work areas assigned to the crew.
- Verify valves and equipment are properly tagged, protected, staged, loaded, secured, transported, and delivered to the correct location.
Documentation and Customer Coordination
- Review work orders, inspection forms, repair reports, parts records, test documents, field tickets, time records, photographs, and other required documentation for accuracy and completeness.
- Ensure documentation clearly identifies condition found, measurements, parts replaced, repairs performed, test results, remaining concerns, final disposition, and personnel completing the work.
- Obtain required customer or supervisor signatures and submit completed paperwork and supporting documentation within established deadlines.
- Serve as an assigned shop or field point of contact and provide factual updates regarding work status, findings, resource needs, delays, and completion.
- Direct scope, price, schedule, warranty, engineering, contract, and customer-commitment questions to authorized management and avoid performing unapproved additional work.
- Protect customer, equipment, pricing, facility, process, and company information from unauthorized access or disclosure.
Operational Support
- Assist supervisors with scheduling, job preparation, workload review, inventory checks, tool readiness, service-vehicle readiness, and coordination of call-outs, outages, shutdowns, and emergency work.
- Communicate shift turnover information, incomplete work, equipment status, safety concerns, test status, missing parts, customer requests, and required follow-up to the next responsible person.
- Participate in planning meetings, post-job reviews, incident reviews, quality discussions, training, and process-improvement activities.
- Identify recurring repair issues, process inefficiencies, tool needs, training gaps, or documentation problems and recommend practical improvements.
- Perform all core Industrial Valve Technician responsibilities and other related duties assigned by management.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- High school diploma or GED required; technical, mechanical, industrial maintenance, machining, welding, or related education is preferred.
- Four or more years of progressively responsible valve repair, industrial maintenance, mechanical service, millwright, pump, instrumentation, pipeline, oil and gas, or related experience, including substantial hands-on valve work.
- Demonstrated experience inspecting, disassembling, repairing, rebuilding, installing, troubleshooting, and testing multiple industrial valve types.
- Demonstrated ability to lead daily work, assign tasks, train less-experienced employees, monitor quality, and communicate effectively with supervisors and customers.
- Ability to read and apply work orders, drawings, manuals, procedures, equipment markings, measurement devices, torque requirements, and technical acceptance criteria.
- Proficiency with hand tools, power tools, torque equipment, measuring instruments, lifting equipment, valve test equipment, and shop equipment appropriate to assigned work.
- Ability to perform calculations and accurately interpret and document dimensions, tolerances, pressures, hold times, torque values, part information, and test results.
- Valid driver's license with an acceptable driving record consistent with company requirements.
- Ability to complete company-provided and customer-required training and work flexible schedules in shop and field environments.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Advanced experience with gate, globe, check, ball, butterfly, plug, control, pressure-relief, actuated, and other valve types used in industrial service.
- Experience leading valve-service crews during field installations, plant outages, shutdowns, turnarounds, pipeline work, production work, or emergency call-outs.
- Experience with hydrostatic and pneumatic testing, valve test benches, pressure and leakage criteria, precision measurement, lapping, machining support, rigging, and actuator service.
- Knowledge of valve materials, pressure classes, trim, packing, gaskets, flange connections, bolting, common failure modes, repair limitations, and component traceability.
- Experience completing service reports, inspection records, test documents, field tickets, parts documentation, and customer turnover packages.
- Current customer or industry credentials relevant to assigned work; company-required training may be provided based on position and assignment.
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Plan and sequence valve work efficiently while accounting for safety, employee competency, equipment limitations, parts availability, customer operations, and quality hold points.
- Diagnose mechanical and performance problems systematically and distinguish observed facts, measurements, test results, and assumptions.
- Recognize when work exceeds approved scope, available information, employee capability, equipment limitations, or assigned authority and obtain direction before proceeding.
- Lead by example, communicate clearly, address problems promptly, and maintain crew focus during urgent work, long shifts, changing priorities, and difficult field conditions.
- Balance productivity with safety, quality, documentation, equipment care, customer expectations, and proper authorization.
- Maintain accurate component identification, traceability, cleanliness, measurement, assembly, testing, and documentation throughout the repair process.
PHYSICAL AND WORK ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS
This position performs work in shops, yards, service vehicles, wellsites, plants, pipelines, stations, customer facilities, and other industrial environments throughout the company's service area.
- Frequently stand, walk, bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, twist, push, pull, grip, and use hands for tools, parts, controls, and detailed mechanical work.
- Frequently lift or carry items weighing up to approximately 50 pounds and use team lifting or mechanical assistance for heavier or awkward valves, parts, tools, and equipment.
- Climb stairs and ladders and work on uneven, muddy, gravel, concrete, elevated, or restricted-access surfaces while maintaining required fall protection and access controls.
- Work indoors and outdoors in heat, cold, wind, dust, rain, noise, vibration, odors, chemicals, hydrocarbons, vehicle traffic, and proximity to operating industrial equipment.
- Wear required personal protective equipment, which may include hard hat, safety glasses, face protection, hearing protection, gloves, protective clothing, respiratory protection, and safety-toe footwear.
- Travel frequently to customer locations, including remote sites and occasional overnight assignments, and work extended shifts, weekends, holidays, on-call rotations, and irregular hours as business needs require.
LEAD AND SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
This is a working lead position that coordinates and directs the daily tasks of assigned technicians and helpers. The Lead Technician may assign work, provide instruction, monitor performance, verify quality, enforce work and safety requirements, and provide performance feedback to management. Unless separately designated, the position does not independently hire, terminate, discipline, approve time off, set compensation, authorize scope or pricing changes, release equipment, or make contractual commitments.
DISCLAIMER
This job description summarizes the position's general duties and requirements and is not exhaustive. Management may modify duties or assign additional responsibilities to meet business, legal, safety, and operational needs. Employment remains subject to applicable company policies and requirements.
Standard Safety & Supply is an Equal Opportunity Employer.