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Maintenance Craftsman

Lubrizol Corporation
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 9 Sept 2025

About the role

Job Title: Maintenance Mechanic

Job Location: Wickliffe, Ohio

Job type: Full-time

Type of role: On-site

 

About Lubrizol

The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Maintenance Mechanic

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the specialty chemicals market and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

 

What You'll Do:

The Maintenance Mechanic at Wickliffe will install, assemble, dismantle, maintain, troubleshoot and repair process equipment, piping, rotating equipment, and structural steel to specifications. They will provide the necessary technical and hands on support to continuously improve plant equipment integrity, reliability, cost, and on-stream performance.

 

What We're Looking For:

  • Adhere to all plant Environmental, Health, Safety, and Security guidelines, policies and procedures.
  • Take a proactive approach to safety and identify and mitigate hazards in the workplace.
  • Installs, repairs, maintains, and performs Preventative Maintenance (PM’s) on all processing equipment.
    • Lead mechanical scope of complex chemical process scale-up projects including fabrication, installation, and maintenance considerations:
      • Participation and mechanical leadership during Process Hazard Analysis
      • Physical translation of P&IDs into engineered process systems
      • Design and layout of modular systems using 80/20 (or similar) Unistrut hardware
      • Estimation of project construction cost and support of project managers in tracking job scope changes
      • Ensure operating areas follow all process piping and mechanical integrity standards (e.g. ASME B31.3 and site standards)
    • Fabrication and installation of welded and threaded piping systems, including welding of both carbon steels and higher alloy materials (e.g. Hastelloy)
    • Fabrication and installation of small-bore and large-bore compression tubing and fittings
    • Installation, alignment, repair, and rebuild of complex, rotating pumping and compressing equipment including: centrifugal, gear, reciprocating, progressive cavity, syringe pumps and both dry and liquid-ring vacuum pumps
    • Integration and installation of both electrical motors and process instrumentation into the mechanical layout of overall systems. (*programming and electrical installation knowledge is not required)
    • Complete all paperwork in a timely manner; includes time sheets, shop papers, digital work orders, and alignment records.
      • This involves computer records that need to be completed, including entering completion codes in the SAP maintenance system, and completing computer-based training. 
    • Handles and operates a variety of tools to complete the job at hand.
    • Studies plans, drawings, specifications, and work orders to determine work requirement and sequence of repairs and/or installations
    • Operation and inspection of mobile equipment such as electric powered utility carts, forklifts,

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