Plant Operations Technician

Best Benefits in the Business

• Clearly defined career pathways with unlimited growth opportunities
• Paid Training
• Paid Vacation
• Parental Leave
• Profit Sharing – 1x year payout that averages around 17% of your annual earnings
• Tuition Reimbursement - $5,250 year
• Low-cost medical, dental, vision after 30 days
• Company-paid life and disability insurance
• Company matching 401(k) plan – we match 17% of your contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan – we match 10% of your purchase

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What You'll Do

• Monitor Plant Performance: Actively monitor and assess plant performance to ensure optimal efficiency, functionality, and safety standards.
• Quality Control Unit Membership: Qualify as a key member of our QCU (Quality Control Unit), ensuring all operations meet the highest standards of quality and safety.
• FDA Compliance: Ensure adherence to FDA compliance programs, following cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practices) and UIG's internal quality systems.
• Routine Inspections: Conduct rounds, surveying plant operations, grounds, and equipment. Take readings on critical systems, observe functionality, and document any abnormalities for corrective action.
• Continuous Training & Process Knowledge: Stay current with QMS (Quality Management System) updates, process-related procedures, and training to uphold regulatory and company standards.
• Control & Quality Assurance Equipment: Use and maintain quality assurance tools and equipment, including process analyzers and gas chromatographs, ensuring accurate and reliable data.
• Calibration Standards Maintenance: Manage and maintain calibration standards, including inspection, testing, and measurement equipment, as well as calibration gas cylinders. Perform routine and non-routine analytical calibrations and adjustments.
• Technical Expertise: Read and interpret technical drawings, manuals, and documentation to support plant operations and maintenance.
• Planned Maintenance Tasks: Safely execute planned maintenance tasks, ensuring equipment and systems are functioning optimally and safely.
• Cross-Site Support: Provide assistance and technical support to other UIG locations across the country as required, contributing to a unified approach to quality and operations.

Safety is the most important part of all jobs within Nucor; therefore, candidates must be able to demonstrate the ability to initiate, lead, and uphold safety policies, practices, procedures, and housekeeping standards at all times.

What You'll Need

• Education & Experience: Associate’s degree, technical school certification, or relevant military or technical experience in fields such as continuous process plants or the industrial gas industry.
• Shift Flexibility: Willingness to work 12-hour rotating shifts, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Overtime & On-Call Requirements: Availability to work overtime as required, with on-call responsibilities on a rotating schedule.
• Self-Motivated & Independent: Ability to work independently and take initiative, especially during nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Physical Requirements: Comfortable working at heights up to 185 feet and capable of lifting up to 50 lbs.
• Hand Tool Proficiency: Ability to use basic hand tools such as wrenches, hammers, screwdrivers, etc., to perform maintenance and repairs.
• Electrical & Instrumentation Experience: Hands-on experience working with electrical and instrumentation equipment in process plant environments, as well as familiarity with preventive maintenance programs and systems. (Preferred)

Why UIG

Universal Industrial Gases, Inc. (UIG) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nucor and a well-established, global engineer, constructor, supplier and operator of air separation plants and related equipment and services, based in Bethlehem, PA. UIG owns and operates production plants across the USA which supply both Nucor steel sites and third-party clients 24/7 with tonnage quantities of oxygen, nitrogen, and argon as well as exporting liquid cryogenic products by road tanker.