R10054878 Maintenance Technician (Open)

Location:

Yazoo City, MS (N2O) - N2O primary production

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

The Maintenance Techician is responsible for daily, hands on maintenance of plant equipment and transport tankers, ISO containers, etc. This position has the lead role in managing/organizing all plant maintenance activities using a computer based management system. The Maintenance Technician is responsible for maintaining adequate spare parts inventory to insure plant reliability.

Perform hands on maintenance for pumps, compressors, scrubber towers, high pressure piping, refrigeration systems, etc.

Manage/schedule & direct maintenance activities using a computer based work order system.

Identify and procure critical spare parts to insure plant reliability.

Interface directly with suppliers and service providers.

Maintain maintenance logs, reports, and filing necessary to support cGMP medical gas production.

A working knowledge and comfort level with basic office software is required.

Must be able to recognize significant events and communicate maintenance conditions.

The ability to weld high pressure stainless steel pipe is desirable.

A working knowledge of refrigeration systems and compressors, electrical circuits, and process controls is required. 

The Maintenance Technician maintains gas related equipment on bulk gas tanker trailers.  

Take the lead implementing safety procedures such as hot work permitting, electrical lock out, confined space entry, etc.

Maintain work area in a neat and clean manner (housekeeping, safety).

Receive freight shipments.

 

Maintain the plant, perform welding, plumbing, and mechanical work.  Must be able to troubleshoot pumps, compressors, refrigeration equipment, process controls, etc.

Compressor and pump mechanical operation, preventative maintenance and overhaul knowledge and experience is required. Reciprocation and screw compressors, positive displacement and centrifugal pumps. 

The Maintenance Technician is accountable to identify and procure all critical spare parts necessary to insure plant reliability.

________________________Are you a MATCH?

Required high school diploma or equivalent.  Experience working with pumps, compressors, refrigeration systems, electrical systems, and controls is required.  The Maintenance Technician will need to be comfortable using basic office software and should be able to work with and direct others in completing maintenance projects. The employee will need to be available for ongoing education and training after normal working hours.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee must occasionally lift and /or move up to 80 pounds.

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We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision plans, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays for full-time employees. 

We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible Airgas parents, offering generous paid time off for the birth or placement of children,  including 14 weeks of paid child birth benefit for birth mothers on leave, as well as paid parental leave benefits for other associates. 

Additionally, we offer our employees a 401k plan with company matching funds, tuition reimbursement, discounted college tuition for employees’ dependents, and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.

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Your differences enhance our performance

At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Information
 

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. 

Please click here to view the EEO Know Your Rights poster and here to view the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination poster. Airgas, an Air Liquide Company invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Company’s written Affirmative Action Plan or Policy Statement. This plan or policy statement is available for inspection upon request.

Airgas, an Air Liquide Company and its group of companies does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us by email at us-accommodationrequest@airgas.com.

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