I & E Technician

Company: INEOS Oligomers

Pay Grade:
Hourly

Location:

Chocolate Bayou, Alvin, TX - USA

Operating Unit/Strategic Unit: INEOS Oligomers Chocolate Bayou/Maintenance

INEOS Oligomers is one of the largest merchant suppliers of Linear Alpha Olefins (LAO) with manufacturing facilities in Canada and Belgium. LAO’s are used as comonomers for polyethylene, as feedstock for lubricants, surfactants, lubricant additives, paper sizing chemicals, and as a base stock for drilling fluids. PAO is a synthetic lubricant. In support of our new world‑scale LAO production facility located on the INEOS Olefins & Polymers site in Chocolate Bayou, Alvin, Texas, we are hiring an I&E Technician who will report directly to the I&E Supervisor.

As a Responsible Care company, we promote the principles of Sustainable Chemistry, encouraging employees to practice and advocate Responsible Care® to improve society, the environment and the economy. This position has accountability for all aspects of plant operation including safety, environment, people management, cost control, quality, production planning, and project follow‑up, and it embraces the INEOS 20 safety principles.

The I&E Technician is responsible for completing maintenance work on instrumentation, electrical, and analyzer equipment in a safe, effective, and efficient manner.

Internal factors

• Company policies and procedures
• Technical training, documentation, and tools
• Equipment reliability
• Work order planning and scheduling
• Equipment preparation and work permit process
• Maintenance department organization

External factors

• Vendor support and know‑how

• Work safely and follow company policies and procedures.
• Perform preventive and predictive monitoring and maintenance techniques to identify and define abnormal operating conditions.
• Troubleshoot, repair, calibrate, and install instrumentation, electrical, and analyzer equipment used in the chemical processing facility.
• Read and interpret work orders, equipment manuals, and I&E drawings to perform required maintenance.
• Update maintenance supervisors with job status and submit repair reports and documentation to meet ISO standards.
• Collect equipment operation and history data to facilitate reliability improvements.
• Update equipment records.
• Complete on‑call assignment for overtime and off‑hour work requests.
• Participate in Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) and incident investigations.
• Keep all test equipment in a safe working condition with current certifications.
• HSE responsibilities (including but not restricted to the following):
  • Participate in the work permit procedure.
  • Repair and calibration documentation.
  • Follow safe work practices.
  • Compliance with Oligomers Chocolate Bayou Policies and Procedures, INEOS 20 Safety Principles, and other HSE programs.
• Perform other assigned tasks.

• High school diploma required; 2‑year technical degree preferred.
• Minimum 5 years in an industrial maintenance environment preferred. Petrochemical plant or refinery experience preferred.

• Demonstrate strong working knowledge of process and personal safety practices applicable in the petrochemical industry, including energy isolation, lockout/tagout, work permitting, confined space entry, working from heights, hazard communication, lifting and hoisting, incident reporting and investigation, and MOC.
• Strong working knowledge of electrical safe work practices applicable in the petrochemical industry.
• Experience and detailed knowledge of industrial plant instrument, electrical, and analyzer equipment inspection, calibration, and repair techniques.
• Working knowledge of instrument, electrical, and analyzer standards as applied in petrochemical industry and general knowledge of various codes (API, ASME, ANSI, NFPA, ISA).
• Working knowledge of technical documentation associated with instrument, electrical, and analyzer design and equipment.
• Technical capability to assess vendor quotes against repair objectives.
• Capability to assess work sequencing, optimize work planning, scheduling, and cost is a plus.
• Knowledge and…