Mechanical Technician, Facilities (Starlink)
Bastrop, TX · 3+ years experience · Posted Oct 8, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Location
- Bastrop, TX
About the role
- As a Mechanical Technician at the Starlink Production facility, you will play a crucial role in keeping critical rotating and fixed equipment available for production.
- You will be responsible for troubleshooting, repairing, rebuilding, and improving mechanical systems site-wide to drive reliability improvements and support planned maintenance.
Responsibilities
- Troubleshoot, repair, and rebuild rotating equipment and fixed equipment, including shop and field disassembly, inspection, measurement, machining or fit-up, reassembly, and testing.
- Own hands-on improvement projects: fabricate, install, align, and commission mechanical upgrades with facilities engineers, using hand and machine tools to adjust and fabricate parts.
- Read and interpret mechanical drawings, P&IDs, and OEM manuals for assembly, repair, and reassembly of rotating and fixed equipment.
- Execute and improve preventive maintenance; write or update work instructions so critical systems do not take unplanned outages.
- Repair and support critical infrastructure such as compressed air systems, chillers, cooling towers, hydronic loops, vacuum systems, dust collectors and general rotating/fixed equipment.
- Assemble, install, repair, and maintain piping, tubing, fittings, valves, and instrumentation on fluid systems across the site.
- Communicate equipment status, outage impact, and repair plans to engineers, supervisors, and internal customers.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent certificate
- 3+ years of professional experience on industrial rotating or fixed mechanical equipment
Preferred qualifications
- 6+ years of professional experience on industrial rotating and fixed mechanical equipment
- Millwright, industrial mechanic, or central-plant background in a manufacturing or heavy-industrial setting
- Broad working knowledge of pumps, compressors, piping, tubing, fittings, valves, cryogenic fluids, vacuum systems and compressed gas systems
- Journeyman or master as a pipefitter, millwright, or plumber, or actively progressing toward a journeyman’s license in one of those trades
- Ability to troubleshoot mechanical systems to the component level; basic electrical troubleshooting a plus
- Expert ability to read P&IDs and mechanical drawings (GD&T a plus)
- Experience with rotating equipment shaft alignment, balancing, bearing replacements, seal swaps, precision measurement, and complete overhauls
- Strong demonstrated piping skills: cutting, fitting, brazing, soldering, welding (stick/TIG), threading, insulation, and tube bending
Skills
- P&IDs
- GD&T
