Multi-Craft Technician

Ideal candidates resonate with PQs Core Values of Integrity Sustainability People Customer Focus and Safety. Successful employees embrace and model these values in their behaviors and actions. This role is responsible for maintaining on-site equipment and facility infrastructure at PQ Corporation Joliet through their training and experience with mechanical electrical and instrumented systems. The person in this role will primarily be a Journeyman Mechanic or Journeyman Electrician with a secondary skillset in the other discipline. This role will accept a certain amount of scheduled and unscheduled overtime work as needed.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• If Journeyman Mechanic: Install troubleshoot maintain clean and overhaul rotating equipment including pumps motors gearboxes compressors agitators belt conveyors screw conveyors vibratory conveyors bucket elevators fans blowers rotary valves couplings belts/sheaves chains/sprockets hammer mills etc.
• If Journeyman Mechanic: Install troubleshoot fabricate maintain clean and repair stationary equipment including piping valves piping supports insulation sheet metal angle iron heat exchangers cooling towers tanks pressure vessels ladders grating trenches handrails doors etc.
• If Journeyman Mechanic: Troubleshoot and maintain lube oil systems shaft sealing systems and overall equipment/system performance.
• If Journeyman Mechanic: Perform a variety of skilled maintenance trade functions including pipe fitting welding carpentry painting rigging support and instrumentation.
• If Journeyman Electrician: Install troubleshoot maintain clean and overhaul electrical electro-mechanical and electronic digital systems includingvolt single and three-phase electrical distribution disconnect starters and push button stations ignition wiring systems control circuits on boilers combustion equipment batch weighing and automatic processing equipment sequential digital logic and distributed digital and analog process control systems.
• If Journeyman Electrician: Calibrate and troubleshoot a wide range of instruments consisting of pneumatic electronic and digital modes including pressure level temperature and pH controllers and recorders gas analyzers weigh cells air operated valves electronic probes programmable controllers digital and analog controllers mass flow devices speed control pulse flow devices nuclear measurement devices etc.
• Repair install and maintain all plant equipment buildings utilities and services.
• Identify specific parts and supplies needed for specific jobs and obtain from the storeroom.
• Enter information into the Computerized Maintenance Management System to document work completed equipment condition and time reporting.
• Notify the supervisor or planner of any circumstances that will require additional parts assistance further investigation or which may delay the scheduled completion of the work.
• Clean all work areas and maintain tools and maintenance equipment.
• Attend any designated training courses as required by the Company to maintain or improve his or her skills for required mechanical and/or E&I maintenance.
• Maintain a working familiarity with all plant processes and equipment and their relation to critical equipment.
• Comply with all federal state and local environmental health and safety regulations and requirements.
• Comply with company policies and procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned or required.

Qualifications :

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of experience working as either a Journeyman Mechanic or Electrician in a manufacturing environment.
• If Journeyman Mechanic: Pass an electrical and instrumentation evaluation as prescribed by PQ Joliet Maintenance Department.
• If Journeyman Electrician: Pass a mechanical evaluation as prescribed by PQ Joliet Maintenance Department.
• Attend any designated training course(s) as required by the Company to maintain or improve his or her skills for required mechanical or E&I maintenance. This will be dependent upon evaluation results.
• Must Demonstrate a Strong Work Ethic (Attendance Attitude Etc.)
• Good Decision-making Skills (makes decisions acts upon them willing to defend decisions over peer pressure)
• Firm understanding of life critical safety procedures such as LOTO Hot Work Line Break Working at Heights Confined Space Entry Excavations etc.

Additional Information :

EHS Responsibilities

• Communicates promotes and personally demonstrates Safety/Health (including PQP Principles) as #1 priority
• Participation in risk assessment audits as applicable
• Understand PQ Principles (PQP) and how they are implemented in the site organization rules and procedures
• Completes HSE training requirements identified for the job in a timely manner

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time