What are the responsibilities and job description for the CO2 Production Technician position at Praxair, Inc - a Linde Company?
Job Title: Linde Production Technician
The Linde Production Technician is responsible for the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of an Air Separation Process at our plant.
This challenging and rewarding job requires problem-solving capabilities in mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and production processes.
Production Technicians must demonstrate initiative and self-motivation and be able to work with minimal supervision. Plant Techs must be available for call outs.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Maintain all Safety, Quality, and Compliance activities at their plant location
- Start up, shutdown, and operate the production processes
- Perform routine maintenance and calibrations on a variety of process equipment including centrifugal and reciprocating compressors, gas analyzers, control systems, electrical systems and process control valves
- Troubleshoot and repair defective equipment, electrical components, and production processes
- Plan and execute operations and maintenance tasks for assigned plant(s)
- Purchasing of materials and/or services such as contractors
- Monthly plant billing, documentation, reports, and other administrative duties
Linde has advancement opportunities for employees who demonstrate advanced skills in plant operations and have a strong sense of ownership.
Qualifications:
- High School Degree required
- Associate degree in a technical field preferred
- 2 - 5 years of experience in any of the following fields is desirable but not required:
- Air separation or similar complex process control function
- Instrumentation and control
- General maintenance of industrial equipment
- Compressors and compressor maintenance
- Industrial mechanical maintenance
- Industrial electrical or electrician
- Industrial Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning (HVAC)
- Military technical fields
- Machinist Mates, Electrician Mates, Gas Turbine Technicians, Boiler Technicians, Cryogenic Technicians
- Committed to Safety and compliant with established procedures
- Dependable and honest
- Safe driver
- Troubleshooting and diagnostics
- Use of volt-ohm meters, calibration devices, and data collectors
- Maintenance and repairs of industrial equipment
- Process understanding, process control schematic interpretation
- Computers, Microsoft applications, FIX 32, and process control computer systems
- Maintenance and compliance documentation
- Communication, both verbal and written
- Quality controls, analyzers
- Organization and time management
- Safe Work Planning
- Self-directed learning
At Linde, we strive to create a work environment that treats all employees with respect, supports new thoughts and ideas, encourages growth and development, celebrates our differences, and embraces inclusion.
We offer a comprehensive competitive benefits package including paid holidays and vacation, health, dental, disability, life insurance, 401(k) (with matching), and pension benefits.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.
About Linde:
Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with sales of $33 billion.
We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain and protect our planet.
The company serves a variety of end markets including aerospace, chemicals, food and beverage, electronics, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and primary metals.
Linde's industrial gases are used in countless applications, from life-saving oxygen for hospitals to high-purity & specialty gases for electronics manufacturing, hydrogen for clean fuels and much more.
Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer expansion, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.