I&E Technician
INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA, LLC · Texas City, TX · 3 mo ago
EngineeringFull-time
About the role
The Instrument and Electrical Technician (Journeyman) is responsible for maintaining, repairing, and installing instrumentation and electrical equipment.
Responsibilities
- Commit to learning, following, and practicing INEOS 20 Principles of Process & Behavioral Safety.
- Follow standard procedures to ensure safety, environmental compliance, and high-quality work.
- Develop programs to reduce work-related illnesses and injuries and improve operations productivity.
- Contribute to the protection of employees.
- Maintain strict adherence to environmental, health, and safety regulations, rules, and procedures.
- Follow all safety and process safety protocols and procedures.
- Participate actively to maintain and improve safety performance.
- Promote continual improvement of safety and asset reliability through equipment, job plan, and procedure revisions.
- Work to improve maintenance processes and methods to reduce potential mistakes and defects.
- Collaborate with operations to resolve asset issues.
- Perform tests, calibrations, and linearity checks on equipment to ensure accurate readings and optimal performance.
- Read electrical schematics, one-line diagrams, and ladder logic for troubleshooting and system understanding.
- Read manufacturer specifications and blueprints to disassemble and reassemble complex systems.
- Work with various systems, including plant lighting, thermostat systems, and programmable controllers to repair and install instrumentation and electrical components.
- Use calibration software and computer aided calibrators to perform instrument calibrations.
- Maintain accurate maintenance records, including labor hours, observations, and actions taken in a computerized maintenance management system.
- Report findings appropriately.
- Attend training sessions designed to improve skills and acquaint technician with new equipment, repair, and troubleshooting techniques.
- Support site profitability, regulatory compliance, and product quality through executing equipment preventive and corrective maintenance in accordance with procedures and best practices.
- Sought after maintenance excellence.
- Support asset improvement initiatives.
- Troubleshoot and determine causes of asset poor performance, failure, and wear.
- Propose and lead changes to improve reliability and optimize cost.
Requirements
- Completion of a 5-year apprenticeship program.
- 3 years of experience in a related field.
- Good knowledge of digital, electronic, and pneumatic instrumentation and controls and related troubleshooting techniques.
- Knowledge of motors, power, and control circuits and related troubleshooting techniques.
- Functional knowledge of smart transmitters and field devices and the tools used to check them.
- Understanding of distributed control systems or DCSs (e.g. Invensys I/A, Emerson Delta V) and Programmable logic controllers or PLCs (e.g. Modicon, Rockwell).
- Functional knowledge of LOTO, system and process openings, working at heights, hot work, confined space entry, energized electrical work.
- Basic understanding of Microsoft-based programs: MS Word, MS Excel, Outlook.
Qualifications
- Associates degree in Instrumentation or related field.
Skills
- Functional knowledge of distributed control systems or DCSs (e.g. Invensys I/A, Emerson Delta V).
- Functional knowledge of Programmable logic controllers or PLCs (e.g. Modicon, Rockwell).
- Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) card.
Benefits
Not specified.
Pay
Not specified.
Schedule
Not specified.