Maintenance Mechanic

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Position Summary

Responsible for the installation, maintenance, and repair of mechanical equipment in a crude oil operating environment, with emphasis on centrifugal pumps, positive displacement pumps, valve maintenance, piping systems, and fluid handling equipment. Performs routine inspections, preventative maintenance, equipment troubleshooting, and mechanical repairs to support safe and reliable facility operations. Provides support to maintenance, operations, and construction teams while ensuring adherence to company safety procedures, environmental requirements, and industry best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides maintenance support for assigned assets such as, but not limited to, centrifugal pumps, positive displacement pumps, valve maintenance, piping systems, and fluid handling equipment. Assets typically consist of site, site structures, buildings and industrial equipment which varies by asset's functionality.
• Performs preventative and predictive maintenance and repairs on facility-specific equipment.
• Conducts condition monitoring with performance assessment software. Review diagnostics to understand current health of equipment.
• Assists with equipment re-builds.
• Supports asset's air quality monitoring program by maintaining and repairing leaking equipment such as, but not limited to, valves, pumps, and connectors.
• Maintains complete, accurate and regulatory-compliant documentation.

Education and Experience

• High school diploma or GED required
• Valid driver's license required
• Must be able to pass drug test and background check
• Must be able to work 12-hour shifts including nights, weekends, and holidays

Skills

• Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS): Develops experience with software package with multiple maintenance functionalities such as equipment data management, preventative maintenance, work order system, scheduling planning, inventory control, asset tracking.
• Equipment Maintenance: Develops knowledge of and ability to perform asset-specific preventative and predictive maintenance to assure equipment operation at acceptable performance levels.
• Mechanical Aptitude: Develops ability to understand and apply mechanical concepts and principles such as, but not limited to, sounds, heat conduction, velocity, gravity, friction, pressure, kinetic and potential energy, etc. when working or using mechanical machinery.
• Repairing: Develops knowledge of and ability to repair machines, devices and equipment based on electrical and/or mechanical principles to diagnose malfunctions. Conducts tests and inspections to evaluate quality or performance. Watches gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure machine/device/equipment is working properly. Able to read, interpret and engineering drawings, diagrams, and schematics.
• Safety: Applies in difficult or complex situation's ability to recognize safety risks in operational activities and use appropriate measures to control and manage identified risks.
• Safety Awareness: Ability to recognize and identify potential hazards. Evaluates changes in work environment with respect to impact on safety of self and others. Understands potential threats created by deviation from safety procedures and improper use of tools and equipment. Uses personal protection equipment. Uses tools and equipment in compliance with manuals and training. Calls attention to potential and actual hazardous conditions as they arise. Demonstrates knowledge of lockout/tag out procedures. Stops work if there are unsafe working conditions.

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Location: Carlsbad, New Mexico