Maintenance Technician Night Shift

Overview

Maintenance Technician (W/E Night Shift)

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Ostara is passionate about changing the way the Ag and T&O industry thinks about phosphate management. Our continuing mission is, and will remain, “Feeding the World While Protecting It.” We believe that passionate people can make a real difference and we are building a culture around innovation, sustainability, efficiency, nimbleness, honesty, compliance, and a sense of urgency to make a positive difference and create real value.

Ostara’s Crystal Green fertilizers are the first granular phosphate fertilizers to release nutrients in response to plant demand. Using Crop Driven Release, Crystal Green is proven to increase yields, enhance soil health and significantly reduce phosphate tie-up and runoff, thereby improving food security while protecting local waterways from nutrient pollution.

The Maintenance Technician maintains industrial machinery and equipment using hoists, lift trucks, hand, and power tools. This position moves, assembles, installs, or dismantles machinery. The technician will troubleshoot electrical and mechanical problems and repairs or replaces broken parts as necessary. This is a dual craft role.

• Maintains all operational equipment and facility infrastructure
• Facilitates process set-up and start-up as needed
• Complies with all of Ostara’s policies related to all personal protective equipment (PPE), pre-job hazard analysis, lock-out tag-out (LOTO), hot work, hazardous work, confined space, line breaking, safe work, daily PM inspection, work order feedback, general equipment/line isolation
• Applies preventative measures to the building and equipment to reduce the risk of future problems
• Collaborates with other functional departments in the scheduling of down time and repairs
• Stays informed of and complies with all safety policies, guidelines, and procedures at all times
• Addresses and/or responds to all safety hazards, near misses and work-related incidents immediately
• Offers suggestions and supports in efforts to improve the safety culture of Ostara

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or related software
• Ability to read blueprints and schematics for electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems
• Ability to safely use hand tools, torches, and welding equipment, pneumatic and/or electric tools, and precision measuring tools to make repairs or replace equipment
• Rotating Equipment experience (rotary kiln, granulator, etc.) preferred
• Ability to troubleshoot mechanical, pneumatic, electrical, electronic equipment and instrumentation to make appropriate repairs, calibration, recommendation and or replacement
• Ability to safely move in and through work areas, including climbing stairs, maintaining good balance, being mentally alert, having good visual acuity and safely working at heights
• Ability to safely work in and around heavy industrial environments, including moving objects, concentrated chemicals, and transport vehicles

• High school diploma or GED; vocational, millwright, pipefitter, boilermaker, machinist, or welding certification preferred
• At least 4 years of related industrial mechanical experience or completion of an accredited apprenticeship program required
• Experience in operation and maintenance practices associated with manufacturing equipment in an industrial environment required; at least 3 years.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, and use hands to finger, handle or feel. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust…