Hybrid Maintenance Technician chez PureField Ingredients

Maintenance Technician - BioFuels Facility

Reports To:   Maintenance Manager - BioFuels Facility

Shift: 7 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, with a scheduled on-call rotation for evenings and weekends

Primary Job Objective:

To ensure the safe and continuous operations of facilities through preventive and predictive maintenance, as well as in unexpected situations at PureField Ingredients.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions

• Receive daily tasks from the Maintenance Supervisor
• Walk through the plant and check equipment to detect possible malfunctions or problems with production equipment
• Grease wet cake mixing screw, dryer bearings, and conveyor hanger
• Perform preventative maintenance on equipment as instructed by the Maintenance Supervisor
• Clean shop floors and benches
• Ensure centrifuge bearings and vibration stay within safe limits
• Perform maintenance on the service dryer
• Grease hammer mill bearings
• Grease-induced draft fan bearings
• Stock parts and organize the warehouse
• Blowout filters or centrifuge cabinets
• Inspect the grain cleaner and tighten the chain to prevent wear and damage
• Inspect bucket elevators to prevent damage to the conveyor and lost buckets
• Rebuild heat exchangers as needed
• Weekend shift walk-through of the boiler blowdown and fill salt
• Hole watch to create a safe workplace
• Attend monthly safety meetings
• Repack hammer mill bearings as needed
• Repack ID fan bearings as needed
• Change the motor control center air filters
• Inspect and clean the bowl of the centrifuge
• Change ethanol load out filters
• Replace the hammer sets of the grinding mills
• When ethanol laboratory technicians are not on shift, run water chemistry tests on tower and boiler samples to maintain proper chemical balances in boilers
• Mechanical and electrical troubleshooting
• Weld the drain pipes
• Grease bearings on the exhaust fan, tighten belts to prolong fan life, and eliminate excessive noise
• Change buckets on the grain elevator
• Change gaskets on top of fermentation tanks
• Replace burnt-out light bulbs with new ones
• Change belts on the exhaust fan as needed
• Additional duties, as assigned

Nature and Scope:

The Ethanol Maintenance Personnel reports directly to the Ethanol Maintenance Manager, and indirectly reports to the Plant Manager.  Will receive work instructions and direction from key members of operations.

Necessary Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Knowledge

·         Machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance

Skills

·         Monitoring equipment

·         Selecting appropriate tools and equipment

·         Performing routine maintenance

Abilities

·         Exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects

·         Keep hands and arms steady

·         Tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong

·         Quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine to exact positions

·         Quickly move hand or two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects  

·         Work and cooperate with all members of White Energy in a professional and courteous manner   

Minimum Qualifications

• Basic knowledge of general machinery maintenance
• Communication, analytical, and documentation skills are a must
• Physical ability to perform the functions of the position

(Most job knowledge is acquired through on-the-job experience.)

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The employee may be required to lift up to 50 lbs.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts.  The employee is required to sit, stand, walk, climb and bend.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.  Specific hearing abilities are required.

Required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE):

Hard hats and protective eyewear are required within and around processing facilities.  Hearing protection is required in areas where levels exceed 85 db.  Uniform provided by PureField.  Steel-toe leather boots.  Additional PPE is required when handling hazardous chemicals and in certain areas of the facilities. Maintenance personnel must be clean-shaven to be fit and wear a respirator.

Conditions of Employment

• Must be authorized to work in the United States
• Must pass random drug screening tests
• Must be 18 years of age or older