Senior Technician, Maintenance

About the role

Celanese Corporation, a global chemical company, is looking for a Senior Technician, Maintenance. The role covers the installation, repair, modification and preventive maintenance of process and portable analyzers used for safety and shutdown control, personnel and environmental monitoring, product quality and unit efficiency.

Key responsibilities

• Perform preventive maintenance such as calibration of process analyzers, hardware replacement, spare parts support and keeping gas and liquid calibration standards current.
• Improve existing sample systems, including optimizing electronic circuitry, cooling, heating, filtering or gas/liquid separation.
• Repair critical equipment on an emergency basis, cover start-ups, bad weather, holidays, weekends and call-outs, and troubleshoot special causes.
• Maintain written and PC-based documentation, including loop files with electrical and electronic schematics, sample drawings, maintenance logs and calibration and inspection records in line with ISO standards.
• Contact equipment and analyzer vendors to resolve operational problems and manage additions and deletions to the spare parts stock.
• Support team-based work, communicate well with colleagues and advance safety, health and environmental protection.

Required profile

• Minimum 5 years of petrochemical plant experience in process analyzer maintenance.
• Diploma in Instrumentation Engineering or equivalent, with on-the-job training in basic electrical, electronics, chemistry and test equipment usage.
• Ability to work effectively with teams and peers, set high performance standards, identify cause-and-effect relationships and commit to sound decisions.

Required skills

• Desirable: maintenance and repair of microprocessor-based gas chromatographs (TCD and FID) and continuous process analyzers (IR, UV, fiber-optic, NIR, chemiluminescence, paramagnetic, zirconia, electrochemical oxygen analyzers).
• Desirable: maintenance of portable gas monitors and support equipment such as vacuum pumps, digital indicators, pressure regulators and electronic flow sensors.
• Desirable: mechanical skills with power and hand tools, and effective written and verbal English.