Utility Specialist - Austin Industrial (Pasadena, TX)

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.

Position Overview
We are seeking a versatile and skilled Civil Carpenter to handle a mix of structural construction, professional painting, and facility support duties. In this role, you will construct, erect, install, and repair structures and fixtures made of wood, plywood, and wallboard using a variety of hand and power tools. This position requires strong technical skills—including structural design knowledge, blueprint reading, and simple layouts—paired with a proactive attitude toward general site maintenance and team support tasks.

Core Technical Responsibilities

• Structural Construction: Construct, erect, install, and repair temporary and permanent structures, frameworks, and fixtures made of wood, plywood, and wallboard.
• Blueprint & Layout Execution: Read, interpret, and accurately execute technical blueprints and structural specifications to guide daily work and perform simple site layouts.
• Structural Fabrication: Replace doors, repair or build interior/exterior walls, and construct heavy-duty stairs or ramps as needed to ensure safety and structural integrity.
• Tool Proficiency: Safely and skillfully operate standard construction trade hand and power tools, maintaining them in optimal working condition.

Specific Site Support & Maintenance Duties

• Professional Painting & Coating: Prepare surfaces and apply professional-grade paint, primers, and protective coatings to walls, trim, doors, and other remodeled structures.
• Paint Equipment Operation: Proficiently set up, operate, clean, and maintain a wide range of painting equipment, including:
• Airless Spray Systems: Adjusting pressures, selecting tip sizes, and maintaining commercial-grade airless sprayers for efficient, large-surface wall coverage.
• HVLP Sprayers: Operating High-Volume Low-Pressure systems for fine finishing on cabinetry, trim, and doors.
• Manual Application Tools: Skilled use of extension poles, heavy-duty rollers, and precision angled brushes for sharp cutting-in along ceilings, baseboards, and metal door frames.
• Facility Logistics: Safely move, lift, and rearrange office furniture, materials, and equipment to facilitate renovations or room reconfigurations.
• General Clean-Up: Maintain a clean, organized, and hazard-free work environment by performing daily site clean-up and debris disposal.
• Craft Utility Support: Prepare fresh water stations and reliably deliver water and supplies to on-site crafts, work crews, or operating units.
• Adaptable Execution: Perform other duties as assigned by the project foreman or facility manager to support changing operational needs.

Job Requirements & Qualifications

• Experience: Proven history as a civil or commercial carpenter with a strong understanding of trade practices, procedures, and techniques.
• Technical Skills: Solid knowledge of structural design, precise measurement, and the independent ability to read and interpret construction blueprints.
• Painting Expertise: Demonstrated competency in mixing paint, thinning coatings for spray applications, and performing routine field maintenance on paint sprayer pumps and filters.
• Physical Demands: Highly physical role requiring the ability to lift heavy materials/furniture (50 lbs), climb ladders, stand for long shifts, and work in diverse facility environments.
• Work Ethic: Strong team-player attitude, willing to jump from skilled carpentry work to general support and clean-up tasks as needed.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United Stated.  Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Physical, Mental & Environmental Requirements

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Employees must be able to sit, stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, and use hands and fingers to perform assigned duties. Positions may require lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling up to 50 pounds, working at elevations, on uneven surfaces, or in confined spaces. Employees must possess sufficient visual, hearing, communication, and motor skills to safely perform job responsibilities.

Employees must be able to read, comprehend, and follow safety procedures, work instructions, and company policies; exercise sound judgment; solve problems; maintain attention to detail; effectively manage stress; and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment.

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). 

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

Accessibility Note

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