Maintenance Tech - Pipefitter

Company Overview for Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A.

Founded in 1978, Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A. (Formosa Plastics) is a growing, vertically-integrated supplier of plastic resins and petrochemicals. With annual revenues of more than $5 billion, we employ over 2,800 people who operate 20 production units in six business divisions - Olefins, Polyolefins, Vinyl, Specialty Polyvinyl Chloride, Chlor-Alkali, and Oil & Gas.

Formosa Plastics offers a full line of polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene and polypropylene resins, caustic soda and other petrochemicals that deliver the consistency, performance and quality that customers demand. We market our polypropylene and polyethylene resins under the Formolene® tradename; we market our suspension PVC and specialty (dispersion) PVC resins under the Formolon® tradename. We also produce and sell caustic soda, ethylene dichloride, commercial bleach and hydrochloric acid.

We are committed to supplying the highest quality products and services to our customers, providing a safe and healthy workplace for our employees and contributing to the quality of life in the communities where we operate. This commitment is made possible through our dedicated people, consistent products, continued protection of the environment and ongoing investments in new product development, quality control systems and safe, modern and energy-efficient production facilities.

Formosa Plastics is a privately held company headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey. Our core business, producing plastic resins and petrochemicals, takes place at three wholly-owned chemical manufacturing subsidiaries located in Delaware City, Delaware, Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Point Comfort, Texas.


POSITION OBJECTIVE
To carry out the duties and responsibilities of a unit pipefitter technician. To be capable of fulfilling the role as a pipefitter as well as ability to perform as step-up Supervisor for Unit Mechanical Maintenance as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS
• High School graduate or equivalent
• Valid Driver’s License
• Be able to obtain within 90 days of employment and hold a “TWIC” –Transportation Workers Identification Card for duration of employment.
• An Associate’s Degree in Industrial Systems and Engineering Technology or Craftsmen Certification i.e., NCCER, NCCCO, NACE, etc. or equivalent or at least 3 years’ experience in the related field.
TRAINING
Will require training in Company Policies, Procedures and craft training after hire.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
>5% harness/fall protection usage during normal operations.
• To execute the work order assignment in an efficient and safe manner and quality workmanship on pipe, piping components, and stationary equipment.
• To care and manage the tools necessary in work performance, theirs or the departments.
• Supply and have available the necessary tools for work performance per the FPC policy directives and purchase replacement tools in the event of loss or damage.
• To provide the engineer a root-cause diagnosis for each equipment failure.
• Properly fill out necessary warehouse commodity requests with correct account code and cost center information and submit to the supervisor or appropriate approval authority for execution.
• Control the cost of repair for the equipment under his/her stewardship area.
• Provide information to the engineer and supervisor for observations in the field of abnormal situations and possible failure, even if they fall outside the steward’s immediate area of responsibility.
• Cross training with another steward for the purpose of back-up and coverage during vacation or time off.
• Cross train back-up personnel for the purpose of time off and call out coverage.
• Periodic review of historical file to ensure that equipment history is accurate and representative of all failures, special notes and changes are inclusive for the benefit of any other steward who may be called out to perform work on your equipment.
• Accurately and neatly fill out work orders to ensure that engineer and data entry clerk can perform their responsibilities efficiently.
• Control the use and reduce waste of expendables for your unit.
• Individual area of stewardship for total housekeeping management.
• Control and limit overtime necessary to maintain the equipment condition for steward’s area of responsibility.
• Any production loss, safety incident, or environmental spills
• resulting from the performance of your work in the area of your responsibility.
• To work with your fellow stewards to ensure job tasks are completed as necessary to maintain unit Production, Safety and Environmental requirements.
• Study and suggest improvements that will lower costs in your individual area of responsibility, discuss with the superviso