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Maintenance Mechanic

Clean Harbors
Metairie, LA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/28/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/3/2026
We are seeking a Maintenance Mechanic to join our Metairie LA team. This team member will be responsible for maintaining/repairing all company equipment and tooling within the facility.

Why work for Clean Harbors?

  • Health and Safety is our #1 priority, and we live it 3-6-5!
  • Leader in environmental products and services
  • Competitive pay and benefits
  • Comprehensive health benefits coverage after 30 days
  • Group 401-K and stock options
  • Opportunities for growth and development for all the stages of your career
  • Generous paid time off, company paid training and tuition reimbursement
  • Positive and safe work environments

Responsibilities

  • Performs preventative maintenance, conducts inspections, troubleshoots, diagnoses failures & deficiencies & performs necessary corrections.
  • Completes and maintains all service, parts/inventory records in a timely & accurate manner.
  • Completes daily checklist as required for proper operation of maintenance being performed.
  • Assures daily maintenance duties performed and communicates any problems or issues with the
  • Unit it immediately upon discovery.
  • LOTO – Always follow safety protocol
  • Reviews all applicable SOPs, and complete all mandatory Company and job specific training.
  • Completes and submits all associated paperwork as required for tracking PM schedules.
  • Conducts Safety Checks & Annual Inspections
  • Fabricating, welding, modifications etc. / pump & piping installs
  • Ensures that work meets all applicable Health and
  • Safety Standard Operating Procedures.
  • Ensures, understands, and has ownership for area specific permit required compliance standards.
  • Responsible for maintaining a clean work environment.
  • Performs other assignments as assigned by management.
  • Keeps within Compliance Standards.
  • Performs maintenance functions, including, but not limited to Electrical, Pneumatic, Hydraulic, and Mechanical
  • Maintains facility equipment through Preventative Maintenance Management systems.
  • Assures proper preventative maintenance of all plant equipment, stationary and mobile.
  • Assembles components and parts, as required by manufacturers.
  • Maintains all plant equipment and systems.
  • Operates a forklift and various heavy equipment, when necessary, to assist in diagnosis.
  • Reviews all applicable standard operating procedures (SOPs) and satisfactorily completes quizzes.
  • Responsible for maintaining a clean work environment. Drives Clean Compliance Standard.
  • Ensures that work meets compliance standards within facility operation. Ensures that work meets all applicable Health and Safety Standard Operating Procedures.
  • Other Duties Assigned
  • Travel to other location local on occasion – St. Rose.

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years maintenance experience in a plant or Industrial environment preferred
  • Plant maintenance experience in one or more of the following areas: mechanically inclined/strong troubleshooting, preventative maintenance, pneumatics, installations
  • Willing and open to continuous learning
  • Must be able to change directions
  • Small packaging, canning or bottling maintenance experience a plus!
  • Hydraulics systems experience
  • Pumps experience, and centrifugal and diaphragm pumps an asset –
  • Ability to meet physical demands of the position and lift up to 50lbs, including movements such as lifting, bending, reaching, climbing, and the manipulating and handling of objects
  • Clean and valid driver’s license

Safety-Kleen Systems, a Clean Harbors company, has a commitment to excellence deeply rooted in a strong sense of tradition. Our entire business model revolves around keeping North American businesses green. We generate more than $1.2 billion in annual revenue as a world-class environmental service organization and market leader in industrial hazardous waste management, parts-cleaning technology, and oil re-refining. We collect over 200 million gallons of used motor oil each year and we have the largest re-refinery capacity in North America allowing us to re-refine more than 150 million gallons each year.

Every day, we help our customers resolve their waste management needs and reduce their carbon footprint. PROTECTION. CHOICES. PEOPLE. MAKE GREEN WORK.™

Clean Harbors is an equal opportunity employer.

Clean Harbors is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact eci@cleanharbors.com or 1-844-922-5547.

Safety-Kleen Systems, a Clean Harbors company, is a Military & Veteran friendly company.

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