Job Title: Pipe Fitter/Welder

Location: Kankakee, IL 60901

Full time role

Overview

The Pipe Fitter/Welder is responsible for performing daily welding and fabrication tasks as part of a team to ensure safe, productive, reliable, and cost-efficient maintenance of plant equipment and facilities. In addition, these positions provide field level support for reliability efforts, innovation, and continuous improvement. Performs duties in a safe manner that fosters good teamwork between maintenance and operations and is consistent with our vision of maintenance being a high-performance work team.

Responsibilities

• Follow all company corporate safety culture and procedures.
• Work in a safe manner to prevent injury to self or others.
• Practice safety and housekeeping in the performance of job duties.
• Performs ASME B31.3 pipe fitting and welding work.
• Utilize plasma, gas, or electric arc welding on various metallic materials together.
• Conduct hydrostatic on fabricated parts to verify weld quality and conformance to specifications.
• Utilize blueprints, schematics, manufacturer specifications and manuals to troubleshoot and repair piping and equipment.
• Complete preventive maintenance work and provide feedback on any issues.
• Requires carrying an off-shift pager for one week on a rotation basis to performs unscheduled and emergency repairs of production equipment as needed:
• Perform emergency welding tasks.
• Overhaul and installation of pumps, agitators, compressors, blowers.
• Performs general mechanical tasks including, but not limited to mechanical, pneumatic, and hydraulic troubleshooting and repair of production equipment.
• Performs troubleshooting of equipment failures and participates in root cause investigations of major or repetitive equipment issues.
• Perform all the necessary installation inspections and quality checks on new equipment.
• Provide feedback to planners on quality of job plan detail and accuracy.
• Follow SAP workflow process required for technician craft.
• Document actual time spent on work.
• Close notifications and TECO work orders, as required.
• Document work repair history – detailed description of what was done: “as found, as left”.
• Support and continually apply all Quality Improvement, Safety, Ecology, and Legal Compliance, policies, and procedures.
• All other duties as assigned.

EXPERIENCE :

• 3 years Pipe welding and fitting experience.

• 2 years of related maintenance experience in an industrial setting.

• 5 years in a manufacturing environment