Maintenance Technician

Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines, we leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world. Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 18,000 people globally.

This position maintains and repairs equipment for a soybean Crushing and Refining plant. The primary function is to ensure that the machinery and equipment in the plant remain in good order to optimize plant productivity and efficiency. Responsible for complying with all applicable Company standards, government regulations and best manufacturing practices. Maintenance responsibilities include project and outage work.

• Welds, torches, cuts and fabricates
• Maintains and repairs operating equipment, including troubleshooting, removing, installing, rebuilding, lubricating and cleaning all equipment associated with the production process
• Performs basic instrument replacement and basic electrical work
• Works with plant operations to accomplish all tasks in a timely and safe manner
• Learning plant process and procedures for plant start-up, shutdown and operations for better understanding of how equipment is utilized
• Ensures compliance with Company safety rules and policies, wears proper personal protective equipment (PPE) as required in fulfillment of assigned responsibilities
• Maintains accurate and timely, notifications and work orders in computerized maintenance system
• Ensures orderly shift change by communicating with outgoing operation staff with respect to maintenance problems or other ongoing issues and/or tasks
• Notifies Maintenance Supervisor or Maintenance Superintendent of any production, maintenance or safety problems
• Participate in planning and scheduling of work for the annual shut down.
• Collects and processes predictive/reliability data from plant equipment to schedule repairs by maintaining good communication with production personnel and the Maintenance Supervision.
• Utilize the SAP PM-MM program to keep plant equipment running at peak efficiency.

• Keeps work area clean and free from all safety hazards which requires regular bending and occasional lifting
• Completes tasks assigned by the Maintenance Supervisor, Maintenance Manager or production superintendents
• Drives company utility vehicles as necessary to perform tasks assigned by plant management, which may include but are not limited to responding to plant or staff emergencies and/or picking up, dropping off or transporting parts, equipment, instruments supplies and other materials necessary to ensure that the machinery and equipment in the plant remain in good working order
• Actively participates in Shift/Team activities including complying with best practices, standard operating procedures and development, maintenance and continuous improvement efforts. Execute MOCs as required for any temporal/permanent change in physical/logic design in the process.
• Actively participates in job-related training as required
• Works and cooperates with outside contractors
• Participate in planning for Maintenance and SHE Capex Project.
• Elaborates and participates in development of SOPs for Maintenance, SHE and Operations.
• Keeps record for Safety and Legal Audits for E&I tasks and tools.
• Maintains information on equipment, repair files, and parts data for up-to-date accuracy.
• Performs job analysis, safety/risk analysis and preventative maintenance analysis.
• Work on continues improvement for tools and techniques to increase productivity of maintenance tasks.
• Complete of accurate and timely work orders and notifications.

In the performance of their respective tasks and duties all employees are expected to conform to the following:

• Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision.
• Interact professionally with co-workers, Company…