Regional Instrument Technician

As our Regional Instrument Technician, you will execute principal responsibilities to ensure the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of our continuous chemical manufacturing process in accordance with local and national regulations and standards. You will also execute maintenance activities (preventive, corrective and predictive).

Messer is the world’s largest privately held industrial gases company and what we do matters because it is woven into every part of life, from the medical gases that patients rely on to the essential elements needed to safely and sustainably produce the goods our communities depend on.

The true strength of Messer is our people—at every level and in every role.

Join us and take pride in the impact you will make by providing solutions essential to our world and lives. Reach your highest potential at our stable, inclusive company with diverse opportunities in a growing industry, supported by people who care.

Messer stands apart because we put what matters first, and you matter.

• Understand and adhere to company safe work policies.
• Contribute to the improvement of the Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality programs.
• Contribute to the improvement of the Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality programs.
• Apply the hazardous work permit (HWP) process, lockout-tagout (LOTO) and energy isolation procedures as required for company and contractor personnel.
• Follow management of change (MOC) procedures for all changes to equipment, process, and operating procedures.
• Direct and monitor contractors.
• Lead and participate in operations, maintenance, and safety meetings.
• Participate in safety committee activities as required.
• Establish a culture of safety in working with regional staff and contractors in the execution of all aspects of the role requirements.
• Ensure regional l&E staff are trained with Messer safe work standards.

• Follow work instructions and annotate with feedback.
• Set up and safely operate all tools and equipment necessary when performing work.
• Ensure correct and comprehensive preventative maintenance job plan coverage for plants in the region.
• Assign and/or execute instrumentation and controls maintenance.
• Ensure proper use of the system including comprehensive recording of data and close out of system work-orders.
• Assist in improving plant work instructions and/or job plans.
• Maintain and document calibration of regional metrological equipment.
• Provide regular in-person support for regional sites without a local l&E technician.
• Lead l&E teams for all major outages and turnarounds in the region.
• Install, modify, or replace instrumentation and control systems in regional plants including local initiatives up to and including major maintenance turnaround activities.
• Support the procurement and staging of necessary services and materials.
• Support related EMOC and necessary permitting and approvals with plant and regional staff and/or supervise the installation using regional staff or contractors.
• Effectively identify issues and troubleshoot and repair instrumentation and control systems.
• Assist the commissioning work and installations including the production of necessary records and as-built drawings.
• Maintain regular dialogue with the Regional and Central Lead Instrumentation Engineers.
• Maintain regular communications with the Directors and instrumentation/control staff.
• Diagnose, communicate, and execute corrections and/or provide sufficient direction to plant staff to resolve problems.
• Identify and lead and/or support instrumentation initiatives in the Region.
• Understand the condition of regional assets from an instrumentation and controls perspective:

• Instrumentation and controls obsolescence
• Identify degradation and reliability risks.

• Support specifications and procurement for regional l&E spares.
• Input scope to commercial evaluations such as plant re-lifes, upgrades, relocations, and roll out of new technologies and under the direction of the Regional Instrumentation Engineer.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting of instrumentation and control valves.
• Calibrate, configure, and/or replace field instrumentation devices.
• Install, commission, and troubleshoot control valves.
• Assist Regional Controls Engineer with advanced troubleshooting of process control systems.
• Functionally test or troubleshoot instrument or electrical control loops through field devices to verify proper operation.
• Electrical (Once Certified}:

• Perform advanced troubleshooting of electrical systems with the support of the Regional Electrical Engineer.

• Develop and oversee the implementation of standardized documentation filing practices for l&E equipment and projects in the region. Work with the Central Lead Instrumentation Engineer to promote standardization throughout the fleet.
• Provide executive summaries of instrumentation-related shutdowns to the regional director as needed.

• Assist with shutdowns, start-ups, and de-rimes for plant(s} in region.
• Utilize a Computerized…