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Maintenance Millwright

Braskem
Oyster Creek, TX, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 May 2025

About the role

With a strategy centered on people and sustainability, Braskem is engaged in contributing to the value chain to strengthen the Circular Economy. Braskem’s 9,000 team members dedicate themselves every day to improving people's lives through sustainable solutions in chemicals and plastics. With its corporate DNA rooted in innovation, Braskem offers a comprehensive portfolio of plastic resins and chemical products for diverse industries, such as food packaging, construction, manufacturing, automotive, agribusiness, health and hygiene, and more. With 40 industrial units in Brazil, the United States, Mexico, and Germany, Braskem exports its products to clients in over 70 countries.

Braskem America is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Braskem S.A. headquartered in Philadelphia. The company is the leading producer of polypropylene in the United States, with six production plants located in Texas, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, an Innovation and Technology Center in Pittsburgh, and a New Renewable Innovation Center in Boston focused on leveraging groundbreaking developments in biotechnology and advanced materials. For more information, visit www.braskem.com/usa.

 

Department:           Maintenance & Reliability

Location:                Oyster Creek, TX

Travel Involved:     0% - 5%

Job Type                Full time

Description:

Seeking an industrial Maintenance Mechanic (Millwright) to perform preventive and corrective maintenance on the facility’s equipment, including rotating and fixed equipment. The mechanic must be knowledgeable in the use of hand & power tools and operating certain mobile equipment. This position is also frequently called out to troubleshoot mechanical/equipment problems and perform unscheduled equipment repairs. Additional duties include identifying parts needed, maintaining equipment records, ensuring Maintenance history is accurate and entered into SAP, interfacing with the work planner on job instructions and estimates and documenting work in procedures and instructions.

Key activities include, but are not limited to:

  • Perform Corrective and Preventive Maintenance on fixed and rotating equipment, such as pumps, compressors, blowers, gearboxes, extruders, rotary feeders, hydraulic skids, heat exchangers, filters, etc.
  • Good working proficiency on:
    • Line opening, flange breaking, gasket replacement
    • Bolting and torqueing
    • Lubrication, Bearings, Couplings
    • Precision measuring Tools
    • Mechanical seals
    • Equipment alignment
    • Drill Press, Parts Washer, Grinder, sandblaster and band saw
    • Specialty tools, like rams, wedges, spreaders, hydraulic torque guns, etc
  • Utilize prints and plant documentation, and machine drawings in order to resolve problems or to rebuild equipment.
  • Troubleshoot and repair rotating equipment problems, assisting in the determination of root causes of equipment failures.
  • Knowledge of PdM tasks, such as lubrication and vibration data collection, as needed.
  • Assist planner as necessary to develop accurate millwright and multi-craft work plans.
  • Search for WOs in SAP and identify parts needed to complete work.
  • Develop Individual Development Plan and identify training and skill enhancing opportunities to allow for career progression-
  • Document work performed in procedures and/or tablet as appropriate.
  • Write and review maintenance procedures supported by maintenance engineer.
  • Appropriately navigate tablet technology ensuring successful work execution and follow up.
  • Participate in Route Cause Investigations, as required.
  • Be available for call outs on off hours and/or weekends, to support plant operations
  • Perform SMP tasks, such as APTs and ISCs, according to assignments in the team activity plan for the month.
  • Record timekeeping data in tablet to be managed in SAP to register work order details.
  • Utilize planner feedback transaction through tablet for planning improvements and learning opportunities.
  • Share discoveries and learnings from day-to-day work with maintenance engineers to allow for reliability improvement initiatives.
  • Ensure good housekeeping after completion of work
  • Ensure good housekeeping in the maintenance shop and tool room, ensuring all tools, rigging equipment, devices and parts are properly maintained and available for future use.
  • Act as leads on critical jobs or when working alongside contractors, as well as in specific events such as turnarounds, pit-stops or unplanned outages.
  • Keep up with training, certifications, mobile equipment licenses and life crit

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