Maintenance Technician Job in ASR Group, USA

ASR Group is the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar, with an annual production capacity of more than 6 million tons of sugar. The company produces a full line of grocery, industrial, food service and specialty sweetener products. Across North America, ASR Group owns and operates six sugar refineries, located in Louisiana, New York, California, Maryland, Canada and Mexico. In the European Union, the company owns and operates sugar refineries in England, Portugal.

POSITION SCOPE

Provision of an effective maintenance service to all plant/equipment used within the refining and packing areas, with emphasis on the improving plant availability & reliability.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Carry out plant isolations.
• Maintenance responsibility for all mechanical, electrical and electronic systems employed within the Process, Packing, Utilities and Jetty sections.
• Carry out reactive maintenance when required by plant priorities & progress to agreed maintenance plans.
• To plan, schedule & agree daily/weekly workload with the Area Maintenance Leader, incorporating Preventative, Predictive and improvement activities.
• Administer and review SAP maintenance system for budgeting, historical trend & reliability analysis, and in order to maintain accurate SAP inventories.
• Undertake detailed RCA on component failures, generating and implementing modifications & improvements to address reliability and performance issues within the plant.
• Provide cost estimates for improvement projects and generate capital requests for these projects.
• Participate in capital projects at all stages of implementation through to commissioning including pre-delivery inspections & installation of new plant for area of responsibility.
• Mentor, train and advise on engineering practices and Maintenance issues at all levels.
• Plant reliability measured in up time, OEE & lost opportunity.

ESSENTIAL CAPABILITIES

• Self-motivated with desire for continual personal development.
• Mechanical or electrical experience.
• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills.
• Demonstrates ability for problem solving and providing long-term solutions.
• Knowledge of Health, Safety & environmental systems & procedures
• Experience of planning and organizing engineering tasks often involving contractor resources.

WORK EXPERIENCES

• Comparable experience of maintenance within an automated continuous process environment, which may include PLC and/or HT systems.
• Experience of Predictive/Preventative maintenance techniques and regimes.