Maintenance Technician

Overview

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The Dow Chemical Company’s St. Charles Operations has an opening for a Maintenance Technician (Millwright). You will support one of its businesses at the Hahnville, Louisiana site.

As the maintenance technician you will overhaul, repair, and perform advanced troubleshooting on industrial rotating equipment. You will work on reciprocating compressors, various types of blowers, centrifugal pumps, centrifugal compressors, gearboxes, and other rotating mechanical equipment. You will have training and experience similar to a journeyman millwright, with some experience in equipment-rigging typically performed by this position. You will be required to perform minor pipe fitting tasks associated with general millwright work.

• Diagnoses and corrects equipment problems.
• Calibrates and aligns equipment.
• Completes preventative maintenance activities.
• Checks sizing of components and parts.
• Specifies, requisitions, and installs parts and equipment.
• Coordinates maintenance spare parts.
• Assists in planning, prioritizing, and scheduling maintenance through planner, work coordinator and operations input.
• Sets up and calibrates, tests, measures, and repairs all types of controls and instruments with pneumatic, electrical, and electronic variables.
• Repairs, maintains, and installs equipment and machinery which is used in the process.
• Troubleshoots and repairs malfunctions and documents failure analysis.
• Collects equipment operation and history data to facilitate reliability improvements.
• Works within established Maintenance Work Processes and helps resolve issues that surface as a result of planning and scheduling work.
• Works to repair a variety of processes and rotating equipment used in industrial processing, including ANSI pumps, compressors, blowers, fans, gearboxes, turbines and generators.
• This job requires hands-on fieldwork to determine the cause of equipment failure, locate spare parts, and install spare parts using repair procedures and machinist techniques for alignment.
• Utilize functional, and technical knowledge, company standards, and educational background or experience to analyze and solve problems.
• Effectively working and maintaining relationships with Natural Work Teams and key stakeholders with diverse perspectives and backgrounds including Engineers, Operations personnel, and co-workers to identify and resolve technical issues.

• A minimum of a High School Diploma or a GED Equivalent.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in an industrial setting.
• Valid US Driver's License.
• Must possess a TWIC card or be eligible to obtain a TWIC card. For information on TWIC eligibility requirements, please see: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./twic
• A minimum requirement…