Field Service Technician - Fired Equipment Group

Field Service Technician - Fired Equipment Group

Join the team at Koch Glitsch & John Zink as a Field Service Technician for a remote position with travel servicing assigned territories. Typically up to 90% travel to customer sites. You’ll be responsible for providing all-encompassing support, including preventative maintenance, emergency assistance, troubleshooting, automation support, and commissioning for new and existing equipment.

We handle everything from design and fabrication to delivery and installation of top-of-the-line John Zink equipment, such as burners, flares, thermal oxidizers, boiler burners. As a Koch Engineered Solutions company, Koch-Glitsch keeps our customers’ operations running with a wide range of innovative products and solutions serving the refining, chemical and petrochemical industries.

What You Will Do

• The successful candidate for this role will be responsible for installation supervision, troubleshooting and maintenance recommendations to our customers.
• They will have operational and functional knowledge of register burners, duct burners or utility burners and must possess good mechanical aptitude with the ability to learn complex mechanical systems.
• The successful candidate will also need to know how to communicate with PLC’s, PLC logic, and HMI’s and have a rudimentary knowledge of electrical design and wiring skills.
• The technician will be expected to travel on a regular basis to customer job sites.
• The typical base pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $50 to $65 CAD per hour but could be higher if the successful candidate is experienced in the industry.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience working with register burners, duct burners or utility burners
• Experience working with PLC’s and PLC programming for controlling combustion equipment or similar equipment
• Able to travel to job sites approximately 90% of the time
• Valid passport or ability to obtain a valid passport
• Valid Drivers License
• Candidate must live within a 80km radius of a major airport.

Physical requirements:

• Able to lift up to 75# occasionally and 50# routinely, able to bend, stoop, crawl and maneuver around skidded equipment and piping.
• Able to hear distinct sounds, visualize all colors of spectrum and visually see up close and at distance.
• This work is performed in an outdoor environments and long workdays are expected on occasion.

What Will Put You Ahead

• 2-year Technical Degree from an accredited college or trade school in a mechanically-based technical major, OR 4 years of military service working with boilers
• Work experience with any brand of burners, duct burners, or utility burners.
• Experience working on Allen Bradley PLC's, in the combustion or steam generation industries.
• Field work experience in the petrochemical, power generation, pulp & paper or food processing industries.
• Gas Fitter A Certification
• Ability to perform hands-on work in the US

This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship.

General Salary Range: $50 to $65 CAD an hour.

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