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About the Role
Wunderlich-Malec's Austin, TX engineering team is seeking a travel-ready, entry-level Field Engineer or Technician eager to build hands-on technical experience and grow quickly. This field-based commissioning role provides direct exposure to systems, customers, schedules, and real-time decision-making, accelerating the development of technical expertise and project execution skills. This position supports projects across industries including Data Center, Semiconductor, Life Science, Food & Beverage, and other industrial facilities.
Responsibilities
- Verify that control panels, field devices, instruments, and related control system equipment have been installed and wired in accordance with manufacturer requirements, approved shop drawings, project documentation, and applicable quality standards and specifications.
- Confirm that field devices associated with the control system are installed, wired, addressed, and configured in accordance with approved system drawings and documentation, including verification of data to and from field devices.
- Verify that the control system and field devices operate as defined by the project design documentation, including testing control sequences, alarm and alert configuration, alarm activation, trend displays, trend configuration, system graphics, and control system response during failure scenarios.
- Support system-level testing to confirm that the control system and field devices operate together as an integrated system, including verifying control sequences across related systems, using the facility’s SCADA system, activating alarms, monitoring trends, and supporting failure-mode testing.
- Electrical and controls engineering support.
- Electrical and instrumentation verification.
- Coordination with clients and electrical subcontractors.
- PLC/SCADA/HMI support.
- Commissioning execution.
- Start-up assistance.
Requirements
- Above all else, attention to all applicable safety specifications and standards is a requirement.
- Strong attention to detail and a consistent focus on quality control are required, especially during repetitive commissioning activities.
- The role may include writing, computer work, field work in construction trailers or industrial environments, color perception, hearing, verbal and written communication, teamwork, manual dexterity, driving, lifting, climbing, mounting and dismounting equipment, pushing, and pulling.
- Regular interaction and coordination with customers, subcontractors, vendors, and internal project teams is expected.
- Daily use of a computer, standard office applications, and a mobile phone is required.
- Ability to stand, move, and work on job sites for up to 8-12 hour shifts.
- Ability to climb stairs/ladders, work at heights, and occasionally lift up to 40 lbs.
- Frequent bending, reaching, and working in and around industrial equipment.
- Exposure to construction, industrial, and processing environments, including noise, temperature changes, and moving machinery.
- Ability to safely wear required PPE (safety glasses, steel-toed boots, hearing protection, and electrical safety gear as applicable).
- Comfortable performing electrical/instrumentation checkout and troubleshooting (e.g., voltage testing, control panel wiring).
- Ability to work safely and effectively in both indoor and outdoor environments, including exposure to extreme temperatures, weather conditions, humidity, dust, and other environmental conditions typical of construction, industrial, and processing facilities.
- Reasonable accommodation can be provided for individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
Skills
- Field instrumentation
- Hardware panels
- Low voltage controls design
- Control systems
- PLC programming
- SCADA programming
- System graphics
- Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
- Electrical/instrumentation checkout
- Troubleshooting
- Voltage testing
- Control panel wiring
Location
- Austin, TX
- U.S.-based project sites
Work Type
- Field-based
- Hands-on
- Full-time
- Occasional office or trailer-based work
Experience Level
- Entry-level
- New Graduate
- 0-2 years of field experience
Education Level
- BS Electrical, Computer, Chemical, or Mechanical Engineering preferred
- AA in Engineering Technology or equivalent field technician experience may be substituted
Benefits
- Full company benefits
- Structured training
- Mentorship
- Three weeks of paid time off
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Basic and Supplemental Life and AD&D
- Long Term Disability
- Voluntary Short Term Disability
- Healthcare & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Account
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Paid Holidays
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Referral Bonus Program
- 401(k)/Profit Sharing
- 100% ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Will Preparation Resources
- Worldwide Travel Assistance
About the Company
- Wunderlich-Malec is proud to offer a comprehensive employee-owner benefit package.