Instrument Technician
Date: Apr 25, 2024
Location: USA: Cedar Bayou, TX, US, 77521
Company: CPChem
You may not realize it, but you’ve likely used a product today made possible by the plastics and chemicals manufactured by Chevron Phillips Chemical. From medical supplies and electronics to food packaging and cosmetics, we create the building blocks for more than 70,000 consumer and industrial products.
Even as a global company with 5,000 employees, we maintain a “small company feel” and uphold a culture of respect, diversity, and inclusion. Ask any Chevron Phillips Chemical employee what they like best about their job, and universally, the answer is “the people I work with!” We value work-life balance, and love to see our employees thrive both professionally and personally. There has never been a better time to work for Chevron Phillips Chemical. If you’re ready to grow with us and become part of our vision of being the premier Chemical Company, apply today!
Responsibilities
⦁ Maintains and improves the mechanical integrity of equipment to achieve safe, reliable, and incident-free operations
⦁ Follows safe work practices, basic maintenance procedures and enthusiastically contributes to a safe work culture
⦁ Performs regulatory required environmental compliance testing and maintains documentation
⦁ Completes maintenance activities on instrumentation in operating units
⦁ Identifies opportunities for equipment repair cost reduction and maintains and/or increases repair quality
⦁ Evaluates work request for routine and emergency instrument work
⦁ Utilizes P&IDs, schematics, and loop sheets to complete assigned tasks
⦁ Repairs and calibrates flow, pressure, level, temperature, and differential pressure transmitters
⦁ Repairs and tunes various types of controllers associated with process instrumentation
⦁ Installs and/or removes field and panel mounted equipment
⦁ Pulls, repairs, and calibrates pneumatic/electric actuated control valves
⦁ Installs and sets pressure, temperature, flow, level switches, and monitoring devices to ensure proper operation
⦁ Performs PM's on various process instruments
Required Qualifications
- Certificate of Instrumentation and 2 years of manufacturing/chemical plant maintenance experience as an instrument mechanic/technician OR a high school diploma/GED with 5+ years of manufacturing/chemical plant maintenance experience as an instrument mechanic/technician. Plant experience should include troubleshooting and repair knowledge of pneumatic, electronic and digital transmitters and controllers, switches and other process instrumentation.
- Ability to accommodate overtime and split-shift hours
- Ability to read equipment prints, secure information from OEM manuals, and proficiency with measurement tools
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw conclusions in challenging technical situations
- Ability to read schematic drawings or product manuals to repair parts
Preferred Qualifications
⦁ Associate Degree or higher in Instrumentation or related field
⦁ Factory training and repair of control valves, fieldbus, electronic governors (Triconex, Woodward), or Yokogawa DCS Configuration, Bently Nevada vibrations systems, and/or PLC's
Chevron Phillips Chemical offers competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package and at most locations, alternate work schedules. To learn more about Chevron Phillips Chemical and to be considered for a position, please visit us online today at www.cpchem.com.
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Chevron Phillips Chemical Company is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status or marital status.
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Travel Requirements: Up to 10%
Eligibility for Relocation: No
Closing Date: 05/09/2024
Nearest Major Market: Houston
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