Instrument & Electrical Technician

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Join Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge LLC, where innovation meets opportunity! As one of the world’s leading producers and distributors of fertilizers, we’re looking for an Instrument & Electrical Technician to join our dynamic team in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

• Pay rates begin from $32 per hour, opportunity to earn more based on experience and value
• $3,000 Sign On Bonus available upon hire
• 4/10 schedule with overtime and on call as needed
• Automatic 401K company contribution with competitive matching program
• Excellent health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance

• Maintenance and preventive maintenance on a variety of instruments, including flow types (pressure, mass, volumetric), level types (pressure, temperature RTD and TC), vibration, variable frequency drives, electric motors, motor control centers, and mechanical relay services.
• Adjustments, repairs, and installation of new services for electrical, electronic, mechanical, pneumatic systems, and systems used in indication, and recording process condition.
• Perform predictive precision maintenance to identify and correct mechanical/electrical/instrumentation defects before equipment fails.
• Verification and validation of Yokogawa Control Systems;
  Safety Instrument System (SIS), Distributed Control System (DCS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC).
• Manage daily maintenance workflow activities utilizing a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), Valve link and Smart Plant Instrumentation (SPI).
• Experiment with new technologies, systems/solutions, and workflows to challenge the status‑quo, expand knowledge of fleet and team, and provide optionality to the process.
• Improve, develop, and implement maintenance process improvements and efficiencies.
• Improve and maintain wireless indication instruments, infrastructure, workflows & processes.
• Anticipated travel up to 10% for trainings, collaboration, and support of other sites.

• Experience in using computers and tablets for various tasks.
• Experience in handling and operating hand tools.

• Serve as a member of the emergency response team as an emergency responder.
• Required to wear any or all of the following PPE: safety glasses, hearing protection, goggles, hard hats, FRC, acid suits, breathing air, gloves, safety boots, respirators, ACR flash suits, and encapsulated suits; PPE use is in accordance with the JSA for a given task.
• Ability to lift a minimum of 50 lbs.
• Work in hot, cold, and inclement climate conditions.
• Work in confined spaces with supplied breathing air and congested areas.
• Climb stairs, ladders, ladders on vessels and columns, ladders associated with scaffolds in excess of 160 feet.

• Experience interpreting electrical drawings and Process Instrument Diagrams (P&IDs).
• Experience calibrating, testing, troubleshooting, and installing instrumentation or electrical equipment.
• Instrumentation experience in an industrial and/or chemical environment or military equivalent experience.
• Experience supporting pre‑startup check of new equipment including QA checks.
• Experience and application of safe work practices – Lock Out, Tag Out (LOTO);
  Job Safety Analysis (JSA).
• Experience with 4160 Volt.
• AAS degree in Electromechanical Technology, Instrumentation Technology or Controls, Electrical Power and Controls or Mechatronics Technology.

This role is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please  for additional information.