E&I Technician

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze and troubleshoot plant operations (procedures, equipment, and controls) for efficient and reliable operations.
• Repair and/or install various motors, control valves, transmitters, gauges, wiring, switches, and motor control equipment.
• Manage and maintain instrument calibration documentation.
• Performs work requiring a thorough knowledge of instrument application, operation and of the electrical and mechanical principles involved in repair, testing and calibration.
• Maintain and calibrate process instrumentation devices, electrical power distribution and monitoring devices, VFD drives and motor control.
• Perform preventive and predictive maintenance including calibration, using data collectors, testing and diagnostic tools.
• Investigate equipment failures, determine root cause of failure.
• Able to support call out/on call requirements.
• Support safety and environmental personnel to ensure the facilities follow all facility emissions permits (air, water, and solid waste) and safety regulations.
• Design, size, select and estimate installation costs for new process equipment associated with plant modifications and improvements.
• Understand and optimize plant control logic, including implementation via the distributed control system.
• Complete routine process surveys on equipment and operations (pressure, temperature, composition) to ensure efficient operations.
• Actively participate in the completion of inspections during plant outages.
• Complete root cause analysis on plant downtime.
• Actively participate in completing all management of change activities and updating and compliance with Process Safety Management (PSM).
• Develop a working level knowledge of all LSB Industries – Pryor operating units while having a detailed understanding of the interaction between the ammonia unit and the interconnected units.
• Develop, maintain, and track project schedules to ensure that a project execution is timely and on budget.
• Coincide with PCC operations, maintenance, EH&S to ensure all needs are supported in day-to-day activities and in projects.
• Develop strong working relationships with all facility personnel, subcontractors, and technology suppliers.

Requirements

To perform the job successfully, the 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.