Chemical Operator
Company: W. R. Grace & Co
Location: Chattanooga
Posted on: March 18, 2023
Job Description:
Requisition ID:21651Built on talent, technology, and trust,
Grace is a leading global supplier of catalysts and engineered
materials. The company's two industry-leading business
segments-Catalysts Technologies and Materials Technologies-provide
innovative products, technologies, and services that enhance the
products and processes of our customers around the world. Grace
employs approximately 4,300 people in over 30 countries.Job
DescriptionThe Chattanooga plant is a leading global supplier of
catalysts and other products and services to petroleum refiners;
catalysts for the manufacture of plastics; silica-based engineered
and specialty materials for a wide-range of industrial
applications; specialty chemicals, additives and materials for
commercial and residential construction; and, sealants and coatings
for food packaging. We are currently accepting resumes for a
chemical operator.Job Duties Include:
- Operate equipment such as mixers, crystallizers, pumps, dryers,
centrifuges, ball mills, filters, cranes, heat exchangers,
packaging equipment, calciners, boilers, kilns and other plant
equipment.
- Responsible for the proper operation of the processes.
- Perform work routine in nature, other than installation of new
equipment or repairs, as required to make and break connections to
change the flow of materials or to clean or flush the process
piping or hoses, using necessary tools required to accomplish
same.
- Perform required checks for proper operation of the equipment
and processing using necessary instruments, small hand tools,
gauges, or laboratory ware.
- Operate power trucks if qualified.
- Maintain required records.
- Observe safety rules and practices.
- Mount, dismount and operate a variety of models of power lift
equipment such as fork trucks, bobcats, tuggers, etc.
- Ascend and descend stairs, vertical ladders and work
platforms.
- Repetitively move containers that vary in size and height from
5-gal. pails at 40 lbs. to 55-gal. drums at 400 lbs.on and off
pallets, conveyors, and material handling equipment such as lifting
hoists or drum dumping equipment.
- Manually open and close a variety of types and sizes of valves
located from near floor level to above the head.
- Operate electrical and pneumatic tools such as impact wrenches
and drum openers.
- Work inside where temperatures exceed 100 f. or outside where
temperatures are sub-freezing during winter months.
- Wear respirator, self-contained breathing apparatus, air helmet
and any other safety equipment required by the specific task being
performed.Responsibilities
- Ability to operate all equipment such as mixers, calciners,
heat exchangers, etc. as required to complete chemical
processes.
- Ability to observe safety rules and practices and wear all
safety-related equipment required by the specific task being
performed.
- Ability to work any shift with overtime and in normal to
extreme environmental conditions.
- Ability to acquire sufficient skill and knowledge of the
chemical processes in order to conduct operations and processes
with limited supervision.
- Ability to read warning signs, hazard labels, operating
procedures and log sheets.Hear warning sirens and emergency
evacuation alarms.
- Ability to perform basic mathematical functions and understand
units of measure in both English and metric system.Required
Qualifications
- High school diploma (or GED) required
- 1 to2 years manufacturing experience in a similar
industryORAssociate degree in Engineering Technology with a
concentration in Chemical or Process Controls with a minimum
overall grade point average of 3.0Benefits
- Competitive Wages - Annual starting salary -$53,000.00
- Company provided uniforms and laundry
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Life and supplemental life insurance
- Short-term disability
- Company Pension & 401k with company match
- Eleven paid holidaysGrace is not accepting unsolicited
assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity.
Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search
firms to any employee at Grace via email, the Internet or in any
form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in
place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Grace.
No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Grace as
a result of the referral or through other means.
Keywords: W. R. Grace & Co, Chattanooga , Chemical Operator, Other , Chattanooga, Tennessee
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