Standard Plant Technician
Linde
- Illinois
- $70,000-80,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Maintain all safety, quality, and compliance activities at each plant location
- Perform routine maintenance and calibrations on a variety of process equipment including centrifugal and reciprocating compressors, gas analyzers, electrical controls systems and pneumatic control valves
- Manage own time to accomplish operations and maintenance tasks for assigned plants which includes troubleshooting, diagnosing and solving plant problems
- Coordinate contractors and resources, both internal and external to Linde to support the plant activities, audits and all administrative requirements for the plant
- Maintain or improve plant efficiency
- Occasionally assists or directs the training and development of new employees
- Safety awareness and procedures
- Safe driving
- Trouble shooting and diagnostics
- Maintenance and repairs
- Process understanding, process control schematic interpretation
- Computers, Microsoft applications, process control computer systems, maintenance and compliance documentation
- Communications, both verbal and written
- Quality controls, analyzers
- Organization and time management
- Self-directed learning
- Planning and project management
- Procurement processes
- Drive a service (pickup) truck up to 2 or 3 hours per day and up to 8 hours on occasion
- Perform office work requiring sitting at the computer and other administration duties 1 or 2 hours per day
- Walking on flat or uneven surfaces and in areas of crushed stone is done on a daily basis
- Bending, stooping, and working from just above the ground to 6-foot elevation
- Use of stairs and ladders for elevated work
- Lifting 5 to 15 lb loads is performed daily
- Lifting 15 to 45 lb loads is done on an intermittent basis
- Lifting over 45 to 75 lbs is done occasionally
- Upper body work activities, including using wrenches, hammers, and similar tools
- Use of power tools such as drills
- Use of fingers/fine manipulation (such as instrumentation calibration)
- Normal work week of 8 hours a day, 5 days a week
- On call for plant issues during off hours. Provided company cell phone, laptop, and service truck. Plant performance highly dictated by employee effort
- Accommodations can be made if reasonable, do not create an undue hardship, and will enable an individual with a disability to safely perform the essential job functions
- High School Diploma or equivalency required
- Associate degree in a technical field preferred
- 2 - 5 years of Operations experience highly desirable in many of the following fields:
- Air separation or similar complex process control function
- Instrumentation and control
- General maintenance of industrial equipment
- Compressors and compressor maintenance
- Industrial Mechanical
- Industrial Electrical or Electrician
- Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning (HVAC)