Instrument Technician

Contribute. Grow. Lead...with OxyChem. Looking for a challenge? Desire to achieve your true potential? OxyChem is a growing, action-oriented, safety driven chemical manufacturing company continually striving to be the best in the business while staying focused on environmental protection. The secret to our success has and will continue to be our people.

Occidental Chemical Corporation (OxyChem) is a leading North American manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins, chlorine and caustic soda – key building blocks for a variety of indispensable products such as plastics, pharmaceuticals and water treatment chemicals. Other OxyChem products include caustic potash, chlorinated organics, sodium silicates, chlorinated isocyanurates and calcium chloride. OxyChem's market position is among the top three producers in the United States for the principal products it manufactures and markets. Based in Dallas, Texas, the company has manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Canada and Latin America.

In a fast-paced industry that demands precision, we create a supportive workplace where the safety and well-being of our employees are paramount. We are committed to rewarding top performers, offering very competitive pay and benefits, and providing tremendous career development opportunities.

We are looking for an experienced and self-motivated individual to fill the position of Instrument Tech within our Battleground Chemical Manufacturing Facility located in LaPorte, Texas.

Essential Job Duties

• Maintain protection of the environment and the health and safety of our employees, customers, and the communities in which we operate and or transport our products, as our highest priority.
• Provide attention to detail, and dedication to work in order to ensure reliability of the work site as well as high quality product.
• Ensure that you and others are respected, supported and encouraged to grow and succeed in their job.
• Assure compliance to PSM standards (MOC’s, PSSR’s, Procedures, Audits, etc.)
• Practice, participate, and support the plant’s health, safety, and housekeeping policies, procedures, and processes to create and maintain an orderly, safe, and healthy work environment.
• Perform calibration, repair, and integrity checks of process instrumentation to assure that accuracy, functionality, and reliability are within acceptable limits.
• Develop and implement a preventive and predictive maintenance schedule for process instrumentation that will assure a high on stream time for electrical equipment.
• Provide technical assistance to production and engineering groups on application of new and modification of existing process instrumentation.
• Maintain, update, report, requisition, and document the instrument department records and resources to assure availability and dependability of test equipment, tools, spare parts, outside repairs, specifications, equipment history, vendor resources, and library resources.
• Continuously improve by staying informed and educated on current safety, technical, and quality practices.
• Support the continuous operation of the plant by being available outside of regular scheduled work hours.
• Provide on-the-job training on equipment that you are qualified on to I/E technicians and to those deemed appropriate by management.
• Serve on teams and committees that support the goals and objectives of the organization.
• Occasionally travel as required to attend to work related duties.
• Support and implement the Plant’s Quality Program.
  
  

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• Ask you to pay for applications, interviews, meetings, processing, training or for any other fees
• Use recruiting or placement agencies that charge candidates an advance fee of any kind or
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