I & E Technician

I&E Technician

INEOS Oligomers is one of the large merchant suppliers of Linear Alpha Olefins ("LAO"). LAO's are used in a variety of industries, with main markets being comonomers for polyethylene, feedstock for production of lubricants, surfactants, lubricant additives, and paper sizing chemicals, and base stock for drilling fluids. PAO is a synthetic lubricant.

As part of its growth strategy, INEOS Oligomers invested $500 million in a new world scale LAO production facility located on INEOS Olefins & Polymers site in Chocolate Bayou, Alvin, Texas ("Plant"). INEOS Oligomers is looking to hire an I&E Technician. This role will be reporting to the I&E Supervisor.

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

Internal factors include company policies and procedures, technical training, documentation, and tools, equipment reliability, work order planning and scheduling, equipment preparation and work permit process, and maintenance department organization. External factors include vendor support and know-how.

• Work safely and follow Company policies and procedures.
• Perform effective preventive and predictive monitoring and maintenance techniques to identify and define abnormal operating conditions.
• Troubleshoot, repair, calibrate, and install instrumentation, electrical, and analyzer equipment that is 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 hours work requests.
• Participate in Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) and Incident Investigations.
• Keep all test equipment in a safe working condition with current certifications.
• Participate in the work permit procedure.
• Repair and calibration documentation.
• Following safe work practices.
• Compliance to Oligomers Chocolate Bayou Policies and Procedures, INEOS 20 Safety Principles, and other HSE programs.
• Perform other assigned tasks.

Level of education & Experience in general:

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

• Ability to demonstrate strong working knowledge of process and personal safety and health practices applicable in the petrochemical industry. This includes energy isolation, lockout tagout, work permitting, confined space entry, working from heights, hazard communication, lifting and hoisting, incident reporting and investigation, and MOC.
• Ability to demonstrate 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. See preferred experience requirements listed below.
• Working knowledge of instrument, electrical, and analyzer standards as applied in petrochemical industry and general knowledge of various Codes (e.g. API, ASME, ANSI, NFPA, ISA).
• Working knowledge of technical documentation associated with instrument, electrical, and analyzer design and equipment,
• Demonstrated technical capability to assess vendor quotes against repair objectives,
• Demonstrated capabilities to assess work sequencing, optimize work planning, scheduling, and cost is a plus.
• Knowledge and experience in executing preventive maintenance plans.
• Ability to read P&IDs.
• Prefer experience with Microsoft Office and SAP.
• Fluent in English.

Instrumentation:

• Knowledge of and experience with instrumentation application, installation, calibration, maintenance and troubleshooting along with the ability to read and understand P&IDs, schematics, loop drawings, and make accurate redline corrections as necessary. Experience using HART communicator and documenting calibrator to verify…