Equipment Technician

TECHNICIAN I – IPSC (Rio Tinto Only)

Total Safety is looking for an Equipment Technician to add to their safety conscious team. The Equipment Tech provides quality workmanship in the cleaning, calibrating and repair of various fixed and portable gas monitoring systems and breathing air equipment. Assist in the tasks required to maintain the breathable air loop system used by the customer.

Specific Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Receiving, inspection, cleaning, servicing, reassembling and testing of various SCBA (Self Contained Breathing Apparatus) and other espiratory equipment and breathing air equipment in accordance with approved testing and service procedures.
• Assists others in facility including stocking shelves with clean, tested, and ready to use equipment and pulling, staging, and loading and preparing customer orders. Maintains work area and other areas in a clean and orderly condition. Performs additional duties after training.
• Routine inspection and maintenance of breathing air regulators and reducers
• Completes all documentation and data entry associated with inspection and repair in a timely and accurate manner and obtains signature from customer so that proper invoicing and documentation can be provided to customer as required. This includes all inspection and repair documents, job cost billable expenses and time sheets.
• Conduct detailed visual inspections and system functional tests of various systems and equipment for the purpose of reporting any deficiencies and corrective action recommendations to customer. Assess the repair needed and to quote the customer price and delivery for repair or replacement.
• Obtains and reviews entire work permit at job site. Identifies any work permit mistakes and ensures that mistakes are corrected.
• Sets up the job per procedures for work being performed. Knows who to contact in case of emergency and where the nearest eyewash and safety showers are located.
• Ensures that proper equipment required for job is in place. (e.g. vest, meters, radios, air horn, barricade tape or breathing air barricades and tags; fire extinguisher, charged water hose with nozzle, horn, fire blankets or burlap to cover drains, PPE).
• Follows all steps required before allowing work per guidelines and procedures specific to work being performed.
• Ensured that all workers have on the PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) specified on the permit.
• Follows all procedures while work is in progress. Keeps visual and/or radio communication with crew.
• Observes work conditions and maintains awareness of anything that could endanger the workers.
• Conducts job completion routine and completes all documentation per procedure.
• Gathers equipment and notifies customer that job is complete.
• Performs additional duties as required and assists others as needed.

Qualifications

Education:

• High School diploma or GED. Associates degree, technical or military training strongly preferred.

Experience:

• At least one (1) year of field experience in fire protection, petrochemical, oil refinery or related industry.

Required Licenses or Specific Training:

• Must have a valid driver’s license from state of residence and valid proof of vehicle insurance. Must possess good driving record and be insurable for Total Safety vehicle insurance while driving company truck. Forklift experience preferred. Must have ability to pass internal forklift certification as required.

Other Required Skills, Knowledge or Abilities:

• Demonstrated ability to operate electronic safety equipment and understand production platform shutdowns performed through fire and gas detection systems.
• Ability to operate and maintain, reassemble and test electronic safety equipment in accordance with manufacturers’ specifications.
• Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose assigned equipment problems and take corrective action within policy and procedure limitations.
• Knowledge of all regulatory standards pertaining to assigned responsibilities: i.e., State, OSHA, and NFPA regulations, etc.
• Must have general knowledge of applicable Code of Federal Regulations.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Proficiency in the care and use of all site specific, facility and customer required Personal Protection Equipment (PPE). Trained in Respiratory Protection and fully certified to wear respiratory breathing equipment (Fit Tested).
• Must demonstrate ability to work in a team environment and willingness to assume additional or new responsibilities readily.

Interpersonal Communications:

• Ability to read, write and comprehend English (operational, process, safety, and quality instructions.) Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Second language is a plus. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization preferred. Contacts with immediate associates and immediate supervisor for instructions, training, and guidance. Daily customer contact.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; and stoop, kneel, or crouch. Uses hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• Industrial customer site. May be frequently exposed to hot, cold, wet, humid, outside weather conditions and vibration. Works in some customer environments during later part of training. May be exposed to high pressure, chemicals, and shop traffic. The noise level in work environment is usually moderate with hearing protection required in some areas.

Reporting Relationships

Complexity of Duties and Decisions:

• Performs a variety of manual functions. Follows established procedures to perform standardized tasks. Most errors are caught during self-inspection or by higher level staff before leaving work unit. Supervisor assures that the work is technically accurate and in compliance with instructions or established procedures.

Authority:

• Works under direct supervision: Specific instructions are given on assignments or follows written or verbal instructions and established procedures and standard practice to perform assigned tasks. No direct reports but may assist less experienced.

Total Safety is the world's premier provider of integrated safety and compliance services and the products necessary to support them, including gas detection, respiratory protection, safety training, fire protection, compliance and inspection, industrial hygiene, onsite emergency medical treatment/paramedics, communications systems, engineered systems design, and materials management. Our Core Values are People, Safety & Wellbeing, Accountability, Responsibility, Empowerment, Honesty, Transparency, and Integrity.

Total Safety operates from 176 locations in 20 countries to ensure the safe Wellbeing of Workers Worldwide (W3).

Total Safety is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected status.

If you require special assistance or accommodation while seeking employment with Total Safety, please contact Human Resources at (713) 353-5152. (For telecommunications device for the hearing impaired – TTY, please contact 711).