Process Technician

Purpose:

Performs diversified process technician duties requiring individual initiative and judgment, to ensure safe and efficient process operations that will produce a quality product that satisfies customer's needs.

Job Functions/Accountabilities (Essential & Marginal):

Essential:

• Starts, operates, and stops various types of mechanical, hydraulic, electrical, pneumatic, and computer equipment by established standards and specifications.
• Maintains process control.
• Implements corrective action for various types of processes and equipment when an out-of-control limits situation occurs.
• Operates various types of analytical equipment within established methods, standards, and specifications.
• Gathers and records process data from various types of instrumentation.
• Maintains equipment, tools, and company property within established standards and specifications.
• Participates in all required training programs.
• Participates in the development of improvements to the process, procedures, tools, equipment, and operational practices to eliminate or reduce waste and to ensure safe and efficient process operations.
• Assists in the activities of contractors, maintenance crews, and others who may be performing work at the facility.
• Continuously seeks ways to improve performance of our plant's operation and ensures that your customer's (both internal and external) needs are met.
• Adhere to the quality system.

Marginal:

• Provides assistance to the receiving/shipment/inventory of materials.
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Qualifications:

Education:

High School Diploma or GED required.

Chemistry and Math proficiency is required.

Experience:

Minimum two (2) years experience working in an industrial environment required with some background in the chemical industry preferred.

Special Qualifications:

General knowledge of distillation and reaction processes, chemical hazards, safety and environmental regulations and mechanical equipment preferred. Good writing skills required.

Travel:

Less than 10%

Work Conditions:

Chemical Plant/Manufacturing environment. An extensive amount of time is spent on the floor in a manufacturing plant environment. Plant environment is a multi-acre site. Typical daily assignments are physically demanding, requiring balancing, standing, cleaning, reaching, visual discernment, crawling, climbing, twisting, turning, squatting, kneeling, pushing, pulling, full respiratory function and lifting.