Service Technician

Description:

Solenis is a leading global producer of specialty chemicals focused on delivering sustainable solutions for water-intensive industries, including consumer, industrial, institutional, food and beverage, and pool and spa water markets. Owned by Platinum Equity, the company’s product portfolio includes a broad array of water treatment chemistries, process aids, functional additives, and cleaners and disinfectants, as well as state-of-the-art monitoring and control systems. These technologies are used by customers to improve operational efficiencies, enhance product quality, protect plant assets, minimize environmental impact, and create cleaner and safer environments.

Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, the company has 69 manufacturing facilities strategically located around the globe and employs a team of over 16,100 professionals in 130 countries across six continents. Solenis is a 2024 US Best Managed Company, recognized fouryears in a row. For more information about Solenis, please visit www.solenis.com.

What You'll Do

We are looking for a Service Technician to join our Martinez, California team to support new business growth!

This person will work daily at the refinery, working with boilers, cooling towers and wastewater systems.

This position focuses on ensuring our chemical feed equipment is properly working and our products are transferred in a safe manner
 

• Maintain a safe, injury-free environment through active team participation and promptly addressing any identified safety deficiencies.
• The primary resource who performs routine testing and monitoring at the customer site including data entry as needed.
• Interfaces with the customer to understand any issues with chemicals or equipment and reports feedback to account manager or support engineer.
• Manages product inventory at the customer including deliveries to process units and offloading to customer tanks, including inventory audits, recording inventories and ordering materials.
• Adjusts chemical feed levels to meet optimal chemical performance based on routine testing and monitoring based on input from account manager or support engineer.
• Alerts the site manager or support engineer of any problems or opportunities with the customer and begins to troubleshoot issues.
• Conducts expanded testing of process variables to identify dosage improvements or mechanical impacts based on input from account manager or support engineer.
• Specs out, sets up, maintains and troubleshoots monitoring and feed equipment.
• Works with the site team and customers to ensure optimal program performance.
   

What You'll Bring
 

• Ability to work in an industrial environment: exposure to heat/cold, industrial noise, etc.
• Previous experience in the water treatment industry preferred
• Repairing small pumps (diaphragm, gear pump, progressive cavity, piston and centrifugal)
• Plumbing – running plastic piping and tubing or threaded metal fittings
• Good interpersonal communication skills
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Strong work ethic
• Extremely high safety awareness- Ability to complete safety training, follow safety policies and work in a safety-oriented manner.
• Eligibility to work within the US
• Valid driver’s license in good standing
• Strong team working skills to meet customer expectations and troubleshoot difficult technical issues