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Job Description

**Position Title:** Field Maintenance Technician I-V

OPEN UNTIL FILLED

**Department/Location:** Maintenance/Beulah, ND

**Company:** Dakota Gasification Company

Position Purpose:

This position is responsible to maintain plant equipment for the Process Operations section, supporting production.

Essential Duties:

+ Perform maintenance tasks to repair and maintain plant equipment and machinery, including motors, compressors, turbines, governors, pumps, conveyors, and fans.

+ Responsible to troubleshoot equipment in order to diagnose problems, machine repair, carpentry, general cleanup, replacement of steam tracings and/or insulation, ensuring tools and equipment are properly maintained, cleaning parts, lubricating machinery, hydro blasting, erecting and disassembling scaffolding, repairing coatings and fiberglass, completing excavations, and miscellaneous concrete work throughout the plant.

+ Operate all types of power, hydraulic, and hand tools, including saws, drills, sanders, impact wrenches, jackhammers, machine cutting tools, slings, come-a-longs; hydraulic, pneumatic and measuring tools; oxyacetylene, welding/fabrication; and hydro blasting equipment.

+ Operate all types of hoisting equipment related to mechanical maintenance, and mobile equipment including man lifts, and forklifts.

+ May be trained to weld using stick electrode or wire feed processes in carbon and stainless steel plate and pipe material.

Qualifications:

+ Two-year degree in mechanical maintenance; or

+ High school diploma or equivalent (GED or HSED) and two years of experience in mechanical maintenance, such as welding, pump or valve repair, auto/diesel mechanics, or machining.

+ Able and willingness to learn safe, efficient work, and equipment operating practices and procedures through classroom and/or on-the-job training.

+ The incumbent must possess a valid driver’s license. Operation of company vehicle on and off plant site.

+ The incumbent may be required to perform pipe fitting and, if so, is required to be socket weld certified per ASME section IX on carbon and stainless steels all diameters in the following welding processes: Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) & Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW).

+ Mechanical aptitude.

+ Able to read, write, and perform basic arithmetic; and the ability to follow instructions.

+ Resume required.

Typical Physical/Mental/Environmental Demands:

Requires constant hand coordination/pinch, standing, and walking; frequent balancing; occasional lifting and carrying up to 35 pounds (50 pounds rarely), pushing and pulling up to 120 pounds, hand grip up to 75 pounds, sitting, bending, reaching, low level activity (crawling in confined spaces), elevated activity, climbing. Requires continuous use of tools and occasional turning of valves and use of foot controls. Approximately 50% of the incumbent’s shift is spent outdoors. Occasionally requires working at heights from 10 to 250 feet, which requires the use of safety equipment, including a harness, in accordance with ANSI Z359 standards, and in high climbing areas on grating, ladders, scaffolding, manbaskets and other areas requiring use of safety equipment. Continuously exposed to noise; frequently exposed to dirt, dust, fumes, chemicals, and extreme heat and cold; and occasionally exposed to vibration, poor ventilation and confined areas such as inside vessels, heaters, tanks, and trenches. Incumbents are required to wear dust masks, respirators and full face Scott Air Paks when necessary. Field Maintenance employees will normally work 8-hour days, but will be required to work rotating shifts as needed. Requires good finger dexterity, good binocular vision, good color vision and hearing, and the ability to speak. Must have the ability to perform close work, communicate effectively with others, present information in a clear, concise manner and follow verbal and written instructions. The incumbent must be able to operate a motor vehicle.

**Wage:** $40.75 per hour

**Applicants interested in this opening should go to https:** //www.dakotagas.com to apply. Employees must apply through Inside Basin, by clicking on a position and signing into the Infor Application.

Basin Electric is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer regarding race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, and veterans status.

**Position** Field Maintenance Technician I-V

**Category** POWER PLANT

**Employment Type** Full-Time

**Location** US:ND:BEULAH

**Req ID** 2192