Production Technician ASU

This position has responsibility for operating a cryogenic Air Separation Unit (ASU). The production technician is responsible for maintaining plant production, operating efficiency, regulatory compliance, and safety.

Essential Duties and Accountabilities:

• Monitors and maintains the safe operation of an Air Separation Facility which produces cryogenic products.
• Controls flow purities, pressures process using SCADA/HMI/PLC system
• Work with management to maximize production and efficiency to meet the needs of our customer base adjusting flows and production rates
• Reads and interprets technical drawings and manuals.
• Perform quality assurance functions associated with products to maintain quality assurance.
• Prepares and maintains accurate records in accordance with all safety, quality, regulatory and production requirements, such as plant readings, plant maintenance, instrument calibrations, etc
• Identifies potential problems from collected data
• Determines if immediate maintenance action is required and acts appropriately.
• Performs complex plant functions, including DERIME and warm plant start-ups.
• Performs preventive and corrective maintenance throughout the entire plant to include compressors, pumps, turbines, valves, motors, electrical equipment, and other plant equipment.
• Responsible to troubleshoot, repair and calibrate process and system problems to restore efficient operations, including PLC, DCS, and other computer interface stations; control valves, pneumatic and electronic control equipment and instruments.
• Takes initiative to improve facility (i.e. operations, reliability, and costs) without direction.
• Performs administrative functions, i.e. requisitioning, purchasing, production accounting, and payroll record-keeping (closure of POs and receiving / time inputting)

Safety and Regulatory Compliance:

• Requires 100% compliance with all company safety policy and procedures, and cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practices) training and techniques to prevent lost time or serious injury to others.
• Maintain high degree of safety by employing safe work habits.
• Promotes and develops safe work behaviors through the use of existing policies and procedures and an emphasis on safety behavior management techniques.
• Assists with safety incident investigations, including near misses, using root cause analysis leading to recommended corrective actions to eliminate recurrences.
• Ensures applicable regulatory (OSHA, EPA, DHS) requirements are met and applicable training and recordkeeping is performed to meet departmental and location requirements.

Quality / Technical Support:

• Performs maintenance of instrumentation, electrical systems, compressors, pumps, turbines, valves, motors, and other plant equipment.
• Complies with maintenance of environmental, safety, quality assurance, and FDA compliance systems and programs including spare parts, preventive, predictive and proactive maintenance.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED), two years technical college or military technical experience and 2 plus years of operating an Air Separation Plant or related industrial experience.
• Critical thinking ability to work independently to troubleshoot, diagnose & solve issues with process and plant equipment.
• Requires the use of considerable judgment to recognize plant process problems and interpret malfunctions to make decisions accordingly.
• Requires the ability to use common hand tools and test equipment necessary for repairing and replacing mechanical, electrical, and electronic equipment.
• Water Treatment – understand the water treatment principles and equipment a plus
• Refrigeration – A basic understanding of refrigeration systems a plus.
• Air Separation – A basic understanding of air separation and associated technologies a plus.

Other Requirements:

• Must be able to work overtime and off shifts when requested.
• Must be able to share on-call responsibilities to facilitate uninterrupted plant operation.
• Must have the ability to work alone, weekends, and holidays.
• Requires continuous mental and visual attention to operate equipment, make repairs and adjustments.