Operations Specialist - Part Time

Duties & Responsibilities/Expectations

• Provide clients with experienced, competent personnel who can advise clients including the following areas but not limited to.
  • Recognizing risk and hazards associated with different plant tasks
  • Lock out Tag out
  • Permit to work including confined space
  • Operations turnaround fundamentals
  • Being able to coach/train plant operators on the different elements of a turnaround
  • Advise on commissioning and startup activities
  • Buils key relationships with multiple levels of employees at our client companies
• Assist RTI’s Operations Managers with specific decon tasks in different client facilities
  • Participates with a team of RTI/CruzAlta employees as they execute clearing and cleaning activities in different client facilities.
  • Trains appropriate client personnel on RTI’s cleaning and clearing strategies.
  • Follows-up with clients to ensure that we meet or exceed their expectations.
  • Conducts business in a safe manner consistent with RTI’s/CruzAlta’s Core Behaviors, with an emphasis on a servant's heart and competitive urgency.

Supervisory Responsibilities

No direct supervisory responsibilities.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Must have an interest in helping others (servant’s heart), work well as a team member and enjoy developing new relationships.
• Understands complex process units and piping circuits.
• Perform all work safely in all plant settings
• Strong Communication Skills, including listening, speaking, information processing, reading, writing, handling data.
• Ability to work and thrive by influencing in a cross functional environment.
• Sense of urgency and focus to manage multiple tasks with time constraints.
• Strong attention to detail, specifically with project management interests.
• High degree of drive, self-initiative, and process-oriented thinking.
• Willingness to adjust (flexibility) and ability to adjust (versatility) to effectively deal change, complexity, problems, conflict, and/or ambiguity.

Preferred Experience and Training

• Ten+ years of refinery, upgrader, gas plants or chemical plant operations experience
• Mechanical expertise and aptitude are a benefit

Required Certificates and/or Licenses

• Valid Driver’s license
• TWIC card
• Passport
• Basic Plus

Working Conditions

• The Company requires passing a pre-employment physical in which an objective medical professional will determine whether you can safely meet the physical demands of the position.
• Duration of Workhours During Project Executions:
  • Typically, 12 continuous hours that may extend up to 16 – 18 hours if an emergent need exists, for up to 14 days in a row.
  • Day shift and/or night shift.
• Working Conditions During Project Executions:
  • Routine, intermittent exposure to noise more than 85 dBA-TWA.
  • Environments that may necessitate the use of respiratory protection for the shift duration.
  • Half-face, full-face, and/or supplied air
  • Medical clearance to use respiratory protection is required.
  • Quantitative fit testing for specific respiratory protection is required.
• Physical Demands:
  • Work at heights up to 150 ft/ 45m accessed via stairs, climbing ladders, or critical lifts by cranes. This requires an ability to climb ladders and stairs without issue.
  • Lifting and carrying up to 40lbs., without assistance.
  • Pushing / pulling up to 100 lbs., without assistance.
  • Standing and walking for up to 12 to 16 hours daily with minimal rest breaks. May exceed 10,000 to 15,000 steps per day.
  • Bending and stooping repeatedly and performing task including twisting or turning valves and using wrenches and hand tools.
• Safety Equipment/Apparel
  • CruzAlta will provide appropriate PP&E: fireproof clothing, hard hat, safety shoes, gloves, etc. Some facilities may require the use of respirators.
• Required Travel
  • Ability to travel to outlying markets for supporting a growing list of clients across North America and potentially International Markets.