Ammonia Refrigeration Technician

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There's way more to H-E-B than our 400+ Stores. To support our manufacturing and warehouse campus locations, the H-E-B Industrial Facility Services team provides maintenance, repair, and construction in ammonia refrigeration, plant utilities, automated systems, and building services.

• Operate and maintain multiple steam and refrigeration systems that serve H-E-B warehousing and manufacturing facilities.
• Perform basic refrigeration operations (putting equipment online, taking it offline, water testing, oil draining, charging compressors with oil, etc.).
• Perform refrigeration engine room operational checks and component pump-downs.
• Assist higher-level operators to install, troubleshoot, maintain, and repair industrial refrigeration mechanical equipment.
• Use basic electrical test equipment to perform electrical measurements and basic troubleshooting on AC/DC circuits ranging from 12 volts to 480 volts.
• Preserve piping/equipment by applying paint coatings and perform maintenance inspections on screw compressors, purgers, centrifugal pumps, condensers, evaporators, valves.
• Perform boiler room operational checks, blowdown on steaming boilers, and start-up/shut-down of boilers and auxiliary equipment.
• Operate as a first responder during HAZMAT situations and follow SOPs related to stationary engineering logs, work orders, lockout-tagout, and stationary engineer licensing.

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• 0-2 years of experience in industrial maintenance (minimum 2 years experience required).
• Pass RETA CARO certification within a year (required).
• Pass 40-hour HAZMAT certification (or ability to acquire/maintain).
• Boiler operator's license (or ability to acquire/maintain).
• Strong organization and time-management skills.
• Written and verbal communication skills; ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Initiative, attention to detail, and ability to work on ladders and in extreme temperatures.

• Work while standing, sitting, stooping, walking, and bending; handle 90 lbs occasionally.
• Work in temperatures ranging from
  -20 to 130°F.
• Pass an annual HAZMAT physical and maintain stationary engineer license as required.

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