I & E Maintenance Technician

Welcome to Valtris Specialty Chemicals

At Valtris, our purpose is simple: we manufacture and provide specialty chemicals that improve our customers’ products and processes; by helping our customers develop innovative and

The E & I Technician performs electrical and instrumentation maintenance activities and projects. Skilled in the fabrication, installation, inspection, testing, adjustment and repair of electronic, electro-mechanical, and pneumatic control circuits and systems. Systems could include, but not limited to: AC/DC motor controls, process loop instruments, PLCs, MCCs and switch gear. These systems are used to record, indicate, and control the operation of various machines, including process measurement and control instrumentation.

• Must be able to work a minimum of 8 hours including days, nights, weekends, and holidays, and schedule changes as the business requires. Must be able to work overtime as required. Must respond to maintenance call-ins.
• Must be able to follow oral and written instructions from all management.
• Must be able to recognize audio and visual equipment alarms, safety alarms and safety hazards; as well as be an active participant in the corporation’s safety programs.
• Identify safety hazards and take corrective actions as necessary
• Must be clean shaven for the respiratory program
• Basic computer knowledge.
• Actively participate in plant shutdown work
• Calibrate, test, maintain, troubleshoot, and install all plant instrumentation, control systems and electrical equipment
• Perform maintenance on motor control centers, motor control circuits, generators, and motors (up to 480
  
  VAC)
• Perform preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance on equipment, coordinating work with various team members
• Perform preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance on control valves and their components.
• Calibration of various gas monitoring equipment
• Experience working with DC backup power equipment (UPS), process controls (Delta-V), programmable logic controls (PLC) and emission monitoring equipment (O2 analyzers)
• Perform equipment and system tagging in accordance with company and plant rules and regulations
• Participate in projects in coordination with our Technical Services Department
• Read and interpret drawings, sketches, prints and specifications as required
• Identify parts as needed to affect maintenance and repair
• Work with outside contractors on specific tasks as required
• Comply with all site safety and environmental requirements and procedures
• Perform operations in accordance with standard operating procedures (SOP’s) and prudent safety standards
• Perform plant electrical switching and lock-out/tag-out (LOTO) of equipment in accordance with approved procedures and prudent operations and maintenance best practices
• Develop, assist, and revise operations and maintenance related procedures to ensure optimal performance of systems
• Perform and maintain plant housekeeping duties
• Ability to operate plant equipment such as high reach, forklift,

• Electrical/Mechanical technical certification is strongly preferred, as is Apprentice or Journeyman Electrician status.
• A minimum 6 years’ experience as an E&I Technician or equivalent; including experience with installing, calibrating, troubleshooting and maintaining process instrumentation for measuring and controlling flow, pressure, temperature and level.
• Working knowledge of NEC (National Electrical Code) book.
• Extensive experience with conduit, both ridged and EMT threaded pipe fittings, pipe treading machine, installing conduit, pulling wire through various size conduits.
• Experience with electrical wire types, sizes and its different uses.
• PLC experience, power up and troubleshoot 4-20ma loop, digital in-put, digital out-put…