UTILITIES OPERATOR JOB BAY ST LOUIS, MS

Responsibilities

• Uses computer terminals, process control consoles and personal computers to enter and retrieve data, and work on team projects.
• Maintains utility processes from a control room using control consoles, control panel instrumentation, and two-way radios.
• Responds to the stress of alarms, out-of-control conditions and multiple radio and telephone inputs in the control room in a calm, focused and decisive manner.
• Operates different types of equipment such as Dowtherm heaters, refrigeration units, fluidized bed combustors, air compressors, steam turbines, river water pumps, emergency power system, fire water pumps, water treatment plant, HVAC systems, and sanitary and industrial waste water treatment plants.
• Assists in unloading Number 2 fuel oil, ammonia, caustic, and sulfuric acid. Loads fluidized bed combustor ash into trucks using bulk handling equipment.
• Handles raw materials and supplies in 55-gallon drums and other smaller containers.
• Climbs ladders and walks on open platforms and catwalks at elevated locations.
• Uses hand tools to perform operator maintenance and adjustment on various pieces of equipment.
• Prepares equipment for maintenance.
• Collects samples and runs tests on materials from different utility processes using standardized test methods and analytical procedures.
• Exercises safety and good housekeeping practices and reports any unsafe conditions, practices or spills to Team Manager.
• Serves on the plant emergency response team - fire brigade.

Qualifications

• Minimum high school graduate or equivalent required.
• Must not be afraid of heights and working and elevated locations on pipe bridges.
• MS Driver’s License; A Class "C" or higher Biological Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator certification will eventually be required.
• Willingness to work a 12 hour rotating shift.

Benefits

• Alpek Polyester USA, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.