Instrument Technician Westlake Chemical offers you the potential to enrich your work life and career experience in an entrepreneurial environment. We work together to enhance peoples' lives through our products and presence in the communities in which we operate. Instrument Technician Westlake is offering an opportunity to apply your experience and skills as an Instrument Technician based in Plaquemine, LA. This position will be responsible for providing the instrumentation knowledge and skills to perform the preventive and repair maintenance to the facility equipment in a safe, economical and environmentally sound manner ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The essential duties of this position include but are not limited to: * Provide attention to detail and dedication to work in order to ensure reliability of the work site as well as high quality product. * Practice, participate and support the plants health, safety and housekeeping policies, procedures and processes to create and maintain an orderly, safe, and healthy work environment. * Perform calibration, repair and integrity checks of process instrumentation to assure that accuracy, functionality, and reliability are within acceptable limits. * Implement and document a preventative and predictive maintenance schedule for process instrumentation that assures a high on-stream time. * Provide technical assistance to production and engineering groups on application of new and modification of existing process instrumentation. * Maintain, update, report, requisition, and document the instrument department records and resources to assure availability and dependability of test equipment, tools, spare parts, outside repairs, specifications, equipment history, vendor resources, and library resources. * Continuously improve by staying informed and educated on current safety, technical, and quality practices. * Support the continuous operation of the plant by being available outside of regular scheduled work hours. * Provide on-the-job training to other I/E technicians and to those deemed appropriate by management. EDUCATION * High School diploma or equivalent required * Certificate from an approved Instrument/Electrical school. ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS: The ideal candidate will possess the following essential skills and qualifications: * Minimum of 3 years of industrial plant experience; technical training with a science background or equivalent is preferred; good working knowledge of equipment, materials, techniques, and safeguards in respective discipline for maintenance and construction of a continuous process chemical plant; basic knowledge of fluid dynamics and process control. * Ability to read and understand instrument and electrical drawings; a high mechanical aptitude and the ability to comprehend and apply information in technical service manuals; excellent verbal and written communication skills; Good computer skills. Westlake Chemical is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristics protected by applicable legislation. If you are an active Westlake Chemical employee (or an employee of any Westlake Chemical affiliates), please do not apply here. Please go to your Workday homepage and click on the "Careers" worklet and view "Westlake Career Opportunities".