Rotating Equipment Maintenance Specialist

Location:

IA United States of America

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Airgas is Hiring for a Rotating Equipment Maintenance Specialist!

We are looking for you!

• Working Remoting- and travel 50%
• 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

Leads and participates in rotating equipment maintenance. Makes recommendations to optimize equipment maintenance and overhaul costs.

• Collaborates with and guides rotating equipment maintenance activities with or without OEM involvement to improve the reliability/availability of the equipment
• Guides and supports maintenance teams in onsite overhauls and repairs of large rotating equipment, with a dedication to all GOX compressors in our fleet
• Partners with all operations and engineering teams to identify and foster alignment on resolutions for mitigation and prevention of recurring rotating equipment issues
• Participate in the creation of Rotating Equipment Policies and Procedures, including the creation or updating of job plans, overhaul strategies and procedures, routine maintenance inspections, and troubleshooting guidelines, as requested
• Reviews analysis to support follow-up with respect to preventive or predictive maintenance data (mechanical inspections, condition-based monitoring including vibration, oil analysis, temperature analysis, etc.)
• Collaborates frequently with intercompany experts, large rotating equipment vendors and OEM's. Meaningful engagement in the CoPs, KNOE and other similar groups to facilitate information sharing and competence improvements
• Makes recommendations to advance the efficiency of equipment maintenance and overhaul costs
• Participates in applicable risk assessment relating to large rotating equipment
• Makes recommendations for Capital Large Equipment Rotating Critical Spare Parts and overall inventories
• Inspects new and refurbished large rotating equipment critical spare parts upon receipt and prior to long term warehousing storage
• Supports and coordinates equipment refurbishments and rotor/wheel balancing at vendor refurbishment or machine shops
• Participates in all RCA's (Root Cause Analysis) related to large rotating equipment and as needed for smaller equipment.
• Participates in PSSR's (local and global) as requested
• Provides technical support to field locations regarding troubleshooting, various inspection methodologies, and repair strategies as relates to Large Rotating Equipment
• Participates in the development of facility/zone annual maintenance schedules and budgets as requested and as it relates to rotating equipment
• Modifies maintenance strategies as necessary based upon the RCA, FMEA results or Outstanding Industry Standards
• Creates, reviews, and approves large rotating equipment overhaul and maintenance job plans in CMMS, as necessary

• Willingness to Travel 50% of the Time
• Working Remote
• 10+ years of technical experience in Rotating Equipment operations, troubleshooting, and design
• Detailed knowledge in the operation and maintenance of the compressors, turbines, pumps, and fans required in the air separation, CO2, and H2 manufacturing processes
• Detailed knowledge of oxygen compression equipment including oxygen cleanliness a must
• Lubrication knowledge and expertise
• Proficiency in the use of word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and project planning software
• Excellent planning and organizational skills

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…