General Maintenance Mechanic

The Elessent Clean Technologies plant in Martinez, CA currently has an opening for a Maintenance Mechanic. The plant is a 24/7 manufacturing operation dedicated to the production of sulfuric acid catalyst pellets. This is primarily dayshift position (M-F) with some overtime in the form of extended hours and occasional evening or weekend callout work.

Elessent offers an exciting, safety-focused place to work. All employees are required to conduct themselves in alignment with the plant’s behavioral expectations of safe, respectful, honest, candid, collaborative, creative, solutions focused, interdependent, and with good operational discipline. The DuPont Martinez plant is a smoke free work environment.

Maintenance team members are responsible for the safe removal, assembly/disassembly, repair, installation, improvement, and preventative maintenance of highly specialized production equipment within an industrial chemical process.

Job duties may also include general maintenance and upkeep of facilities, grounds, and ancillary support of utility equipment as needed.

Maintenance employees participate in plant committees, continuous improvement activities, and incident investigations, etc. and use desktop computers with the Microsoft Office suite. Other special projects or duties assigned as needed.

Maintenance-General Skilled Day Mechanic:

Maintenance day employees work eight hour shifts—Monday through Friday with evening and/or weekend overtime required, as needed, to support plant turnarounds, manpower shortages, and other critical plant needs.

Basic skillsets (Required):

General maintenance mechanical skills--troubleshooting, preventative maintenance, good attention to detail

Pneumatics

Power tools—grinders, drills, saws, etc.

Lubrication systems

Good machining skills (lathe, mill, saws, etc.)

Solid foundational electrical knowledge

General metal fabrication

Operate forklift

Advanced Skillsets (Preferred):

Welding (stick, TIG, and stainless)

Machine alignment

Pump rebuilds

Construction and/or inspection of scaffolding

Rigging and hoisting

MINIMUM EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE:

Minimum High School Diploma or equivalency required

Associates degree, trade certifications, or other relevant professional certifications preferred

Minimum 2 years of industrial plant maintenance experience with 5 or more preferred

Knowledge, skill, and ability to safely use maintenance tools and equipment

Excellent communication skills

Ability to read technical drawings and schematics

Good desktop computer (Microsoft office) skills

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

Pass pre-employment medical and background screenings

PHYSICAL QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of these jobs, the employee is regularly required to:

Stand; walk; and use arms and hands to handle, feel, reach, pull, turn, grasp, and carry items

Stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl

See up close and far away

Talk and hear

Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds

Be able and willing to wear all PPE required for a chemical industrial manufacturing environment and completion of maintenance work tasks

Be able and willing to wear a respirator both continuously or intermittently and throughout the shift

Be able to work up to 12 hours/day-at any time of day

Climb up and down staircases, ladders, and scaffolding on an hourly/daily basis to perform job tasks

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an individual encounter while performing the essential functions of these jobs.

While performing the duties of these jobs, the employee will work in an industrial, chemical manufacturing environment and is required to work both indoor and outdoor and is routinely exposed to outside weather conditions. During the normal course of work, the employee will work in and/or be exposed to confined spaces, heights, noise, vibration, dust, cold, heat, chemicals, gases, and substances under pressure.