Maintenance Technician

Your Job

Our Fort Dodge, IA Fertilizer Plant is looking for a Maintenance Technician to support our Koch Fertilizer plant!

Our Benefits Package Includes:

• Bonus eligible - including a $3,000 sign on bonus!

• 4/10s schedule with overtime and on call as needed (Monday - Thursday)

• Automatic 401K company contribution along with competitive matching program

• Excellent Health benefits

Our Team

Koch Fertilizer is one of the world's largest producers and distributors of fertilizers.

Together with our affiliates, we are a global provider of value-added solutions for the agriculture, turf and ornamental, energy and chemical markets.

We are a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries.

See the latest ways we're creating value for our customers and doing more with less at kochfertilizer.com.

What You Will Do

• Champion the Principle Based Management philosophy to develop the capability of the maintenance team.

Drive culture within the team.

• Embracing and adhering to all facility safe work policies, practices, and regulations

• Troubleshoot, maintain, and repair equipment to achieve optimal performance levels using precision maintenance best practices, tools, and techniques.

• Performing preventative and corrective maintenance on industrial process equipment.

• Applying problem solving methods to identify the root cause and eliminate failures.

• Cross-training and assisting in maintenance and partnering with operations.

• Working with the operations and maintenance teams to identify and prioritize maintenance needs.

• Experiment with new technologies, systems/solutions, and workflows to challenge the status-quo, expand the knowledge of fleet and team, and provide optionality to the process.

• Improve, develop, and implement maintenance process improvements and efficiencies.

• Anticipated travel up to 10% for trainings, collaboration, and support of other sites.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience working within industrial maintenance

• Experience using a computer or tablet

Physical Requirements:

• Serve as a member of the emergency response team as an emergency responder

• Required to wear any or all of the following PPE: safety glasses, hearing protection, goggles, hard hats, FRC, acid suits, breathing air, gloves, safety boots, respirators, ACR Flash suits, and encapsulated suits.

PPE use is in accordance with the Job Safety Analysis (JSA) for a given task

• Ability to lift a minimum of 50lbs

• Work in hot, cold, and inclement climate conditions

• Work in confined spaces with supplied breathing air and congested areas

• Climb stairs, ladders, ladders on vessels and columns, ladders associated with scaffolds in excess of 160 feet

What Will Put You Ahead

• Industrial mechanical diploma or vocational degree

• Experience performing precision maintenance tasks

• Experience with a CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)

• Experience and application...