A Maintenance Technician, Instrumentation

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SUMMARY OF THE ROLE

Maintenance Technician, Instrumentation , conducts daily instrumentation maintenance execution activities, ensuring safe, quality work practices are maintained while maximizing availability of equipment across the facility. This position is located in Brownsville, TX.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Demonstrate proactive safety attitude at all times.
- Always uses safe work practices and follows NextDecade lifesaving rules and permitting processes.
- Maintains a high focus on safety and wellbeing of execution team, leads by example to set and maintain a positive safety culture of compliance and continuous improvement for Apprentices and Contractors
- Engages and communicates effectively with all maintenance disciplines as required, not just the Instrumentation team, including Electrical, Mechanical, Plant Services, Planning, Engineering, Specialist Vendors and Contractors upholding the One-Team approach
- Initial support and continued review of Preventative & Corrective Maintenance Plans aligned to the equipment selected for this facility.
- Participate in the reviewing of maintenance documentation, such as Work Instruction’s, Job Safety Analysis, Permitting, red lining of documents.
- Participate in the Instrumentation maintenance execution activities of all breakdown, corrective and preventative maintenance in the facility
- Provide support to the leadership of the Turnaround Team prior and during Turnarounds
- Responsible to safely complete all assigned activities to a high standard
- Perform Permit Holder requirements for the execution of work at RGLNG
- Maintain personal training and competency compliance.
- Actively participate in all the required maintenance execution meetings, including HSSE meetings, pre-starts, work allocation tasks, tailgates and toolboxes etc.

EDUCATION, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, & COMPETENCIES

Basic Requirements:

- High school diploma or GED.
- Technical degree in Industrial Maintenance Instrumentation or similar and NCCER preferred.
- 5+ years LNG Export Facility experience in an Instrumentation Maintenance Execution role or 10+ years' experience in LNG/Oil & Gas/Petrochemical industries.
- Competent for all Instrumentation Maintenance activities.
- Competent at interpreting Engineering Drawings and Documentation i.e. P&ID, ISO, GA, Logic, Control Narratives, Cause & Effect, Loop & Wiring, etc
- Must have experience with the testing and inspection of Safety Critical Elements (SCE), Statutory and Federal Regulatory compliance.
- Experience in GOAL setting and performance management.
- Experience and working knowledge of CMMS systems (SAP or Similar)
- Experience working with and red-lining critical Maintenance procedures.
- Good working knowledge of an Management Of Change (MOC) process.
- Experience in maintenance activities during Turnarounds.
- Relevant Instrumentation LNG maintenance experience including Integrated Control & Safety Systems (DCS / SIS), PLC’s, Flow Computers, analyzers, gas turbines, fire & gas detection systems, control valves, anti-surge control, and field instrumentation is a must.
- Ability to Obtain NFPA 70E qualification
- Experience with Instrumentation Equipment in Hazardous Classified Areas
- Experience with Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO) equipment isolations in accordance with Permit to Work Systems and processes.
- Must be experienced in writing/reviewing Work Instructions
- Computer literate in Word, Excel, and CMMS/database applications.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a hands-on approach to work.
- Must be able to obtain a TWIC card.
- Participate as a member of the Emergency Response Team (ERT) to support on-site emergencies

Site Working Conditions & Physical Expectations

Work Environment

- Must be able to wear all necessary PPE equipment to perform job functions.

- Operates in a complex construction environment.

- Exposure to indoor and outdoor weather conditions.

- Not necessarily protected from weather and temperature changes. Possible exposure to hot, cold, wet, humid, or windy weather conditions.

- Exposure to moving mechanical parts and electrical circuits.

- Exposure to constant or intermittent sounds of a pitch level sufficient to cause marked distraction.

- Routinely uses standard office and field communications equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers w/scanner and fax, and radios.

Able to meet the following physical demands of the job, with or without reasonable accommodations:

- Ability to drive to other Company work locations as required.

- Ability to move throughout all areas of the facility, including being physically capable of traveling to a designed muster point during emergency situations.

- Stand and/or sit continuously and perform job functions for a full shift.

- The incumbent is required to have fully mechanical motion and usage of all extremities.

- Physically able to walk, stand, bend, stoop, kneel, reach, twist, lift, push, pull, climb, balance, crouch, handle, and lift items weighing up to 20 lbs. without assistance.

- Visual acuity corrected to perform job functions. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

- Must be able to clearly communicate with others via radio, phone, and verbal methods.

- May be required to enter confined spaces.

- May be required to work at elevated heights and access elevated structures without assistance.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

*In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

NEXTDECADE VALUES

- Safety – We make safety a priority. Everything we do relies on the safety of our people and the communities around us.

- Integrity – We do the right thing, and are open, ethical, and fair. We hold ourselves to the highest standards in all that we do.

- Honesty – We value truth and honesty in ourselves and others. We honor our commitments and take responsibility for our actions.

- Respect – We listen, and respect people, the environment, and the communities in which we live and work.

- Transparency – Transparency builds trust. We promote open communication with our people, our customers, and all our stakeholders.

- Diversity – We value diversity of people and thought. It takes people with different strengths, ideas, and cultural backgrounds to make our company succeed.

NextDecade provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. NextDecade complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.