Maintenance Technician

Maintenance Technician (Open)

Location:

Fairless Hills, PA - Middle Dr - ASU

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the unique perspectives of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders, and cultures across the world. We believe that a variety of backgrounds makes our team stronger and more innovative.

At Airgas, we respect, honor, and value diversity.

Airgas is hiring for a Plant Maintenance Technician in Fairless Hills, PA! We are looking for you!

• $32/hr & Up DOE
• M-F Days 4 ten hour days -- ON Call Required.
• Comprehensive Family Benefits:
  Airgas offers a full benefits package designed to support your whole life, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance.
• Support for Parents:
  We offer a 14-week paid child birth benefit to support growing families.
• Future Security: 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match, Tuition Assistance, Paid Holidays, Vacation, and Sick time.
• Early Access:
  Your benefits start after just 30 days of employment

The Plant Maintenance Technician preserves and optimizes the facility, machinery, buildings, and equipment used in compressing and liquefying gasses. You will collaborate with internal and external customers to answer technical questions regarding Airgas equipment. This role is also essential in keeping the plant in alignment with all FDA, Safecor, and DOT regulations.

Ideally, you bring a commitment to company policies, including safety and the thoughtful use of personal protective equipment.

• Installs, extracts, inspects, and optimizes bulk tanks, valves, and cryogenic pumps, ensuring successful operational tests after installation.
• Operates and carefully maintains equipment for pumping or repackaging gasses into cylinders.
• Regularly monitors and maintains pumping apparatus, tanks, valves, and associated monitoring devices.
• Builds alignment by answering technical questions from internal or external sources.
• Ensures any accident or injury is promptly and transparently reported to management.
• Fosters safe and efficient operations through periodic checks of the Plant.
• Operates a forklift, pallet jack, and other warehouse equipment.
• Contributes to a neat, clean, and orderly plant appearance.
• Operates a vehicle to travel to customer sites to support equipment needs as required.
• Optimizes equipment in the plant such as compressors, scrubbers, instrument panels, and electrical equipment, following blueprints, schematics, and maintenance manuals, using hand tools, welding equipment, and testing instruments.
• Tests equipment to identify and resolve causes of trouble using standard test meters.
• Systematically disassembles equipment using hand tools and power tools.
• Welds, brazes, burns, and solders parts with precision.
• Adjusts and replaces pipes and equipment using pipe fitting tools.
• Optimizes instrument control panels, rectifiers, motors, switches, and other electrical equipment.
• Repacks compressors and pumps.
• May operate metalworking tools to create or improve parts.
• Changes filtration materials as required to ensure quality.
• We look for these duties to be performed in alignment with company policies and procedures, complying with all federal, state, local, and DOT regulations.
• Maintains a professional personal and vehicle appearance to represent the brand with excellence.

• High School Diploma. Post secondary education equivalent to a one year technical college or equivalent is an asset.
• At least one year of knowledge and experience of arc and gas welding with at least two years industry experience is preferred. Competent in plumbing, carpentry and masonry work.
• Experience working with electrical circuits, motors, compressors, pumps and drives in an industrial setting.
• A valid Driver's License is required for this role.

• Post-secondary education equivalent to a one-year technical college or similar background is a valued asset.

Benefits

We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision plans, short-term and long-term disability, life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), pre-tax commuter transportation benefit, parental leave, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, jury duty and funeral/bereavement leave, and paid holidays for all eligible full-time…