The posting
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the installation, repair, modifications and preventive maintenance of process analyzers and portable analyzers that are used for safety and shutdown control, personnel monitoring, environmental monitoring, product quality and unit efficiency.
- Perform preventative maintenance such as calibration of process analyzers, hardware replacement and spare parts support and keeping gas and liquid calibration standards current.
- Improve existing sample systems including optimizing electronic circuitry, cooling, heating, filtering or gas/liquid separation.
- Repair critical equipment on emergency basis, start-up coverage, inclement weather coverage, holiday, weekend and call out coverage and troubleshooting special causes.
- Documentation (written and PC based record keeping) including: loop files which contain electrical and electronic schematics, sample drawings, maintenance logs and calibration and inspection records to comply with ISO standards.
- Contact equipment and analyzer vendors to resolve operational problems, implement additions and deletions to the warehouse stock of spare parts.
- Demonstrate behavior that advances team-based work concepts by utilizing good communication techniques with all employees and to develop others in the team
- Supports the vision of achieving excellence in safety, health and protection of the environment.
Required Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Required Experience: Minimum 5 years of petrochemical plant experience in process analyzer maintenance.
- Required Education: Diploma in Instrumentation Engineering or equivalent. with on the job training in Basic electrical, electronics, chemistry, test equipment usage.
- Working effectively with team/work group or those outside the formal line of authority (e.g. peers, managers) to accomplish organizational goals taking actions that respect the needs and contributions of others contributing to and accepting the consensus subordinating own objectives to the objectives of the organization or team
- Being aware of conditions that effect employee safety.
- Setting high goals or standards of performance for self, staff workers, other, and the organization being dissatisfied with average performance self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed by others.
- Securing relevant information and identifying key issues and relationships from a base of information relating and comparing data from different sources identifying cause-effect relationships.
- Committing to an action after developing alternative courses of action that are based on logical assumptions and factual information and that take into consideration resources, constraints, and organizational values.
- The extent to which job activities and responsibilities, the organization’s mode of operation and values, and the community in which the individual will live and work are consistent with the type of environment that provides personal satisfaction the degree to which the work itself is personally satisfying
- Having achieved a satisfactory level of technical and professional skills/knowledge in job -related areas; keeping abreast of current developments and trends in areas of expertise.
Desirable Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Maintenance and repair of microprocessor-based gas chromatographs (TCD and FID) and continuous process analyzers, including but not limited to infrared (IR), ultraviolet (UV), fiber-optic transmission systems, NIR, chemiluminescence, radioactive absorption, and oxygen analyzers (paramagnetic, zirconia, and electrochemical).
- Maintenance and repair of portable and personal gas monitors.
- Maintenance of support equipment such as vacuum pumps, digital indicators, pressure regulators, electronic flow sensors, and associated equipment.
- Mechanical skills and proficiency in the use of power tools and hand tools for repair and fabrication activities.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Documentation improvement skills.
