Opérateur(trice) d'usine

Air Liquide • Varennes, QC

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The primary function and purpose of this position is to participate in the operation of the plant for the production and filling of acetylene and propylene, while respecting safety requirements to meet customer expectations and ensure operational efficiency, all while promoting ALC's quality and safety objectives.

Requirements

• Secondary V diploma
• Technical training preferred
• Knowledge of industrial environment operations assistance
• Forklift operation
• Valid driver's license required
• Good spoken and written communication skills
• Adherence to safety rules and regulations is a condition of employment
• Positive attitude at work
• Responsible (especially regarding one's own safety and that of colleagues), given the ATEX classified environment
• Understanding the importance of serving customers well
• Good team spirit, enjoys assisting colleagues
• Proactive attitude regarding tasks to be performed
• Ability to perform routine work while maintaining an adequate production pace
• Ability to stand for long periods of time

Responsibilities

• Participates in the execution of production work: Receives directives concerning the work to be performed and production priorities. Assists Operator I in the following functions: Moving or having trailers moved if the operator has the skills to do so; Participates in their loading and unloading; Handles cylinders. Adds carbide to generators as needed. Handles cylinders, Removes or replaces caps. Loads and unloads trailers; Uses the forklift. Empties overfilled cylinders and finishes filling underfilled ones. Returns acetylene from cylinders that did not take their charge properly, have too much residual gas, or are due for inspection via the drain ramps (to compressors and/or generator) when checking dates at the preparation scale. Removes empty cylinders from pallets and places and secures full cylinders on pallets.
• Prepares empty cylinders for filling: Prepares empty cylinders for inspection or filling; visual inspection based on defect labels, weighing, sorting of customer-owned cylinders, acetonation as needed according to acetonation charts, replacement of self-adhesive labels. Ensures the conditioning of new acetylene cylinders as needed while following plant procedures.
• Ensures cylinder filling: Connects cylinders to the manifold, opens their valves and manifold valves, adjusts water flow, checks pressures and temperatures during filling, and ensures the absence of leaks. Stops filling, closes valves and manifold valves. Performs manifold changeover. Weighs full cylinders, inscribes the corresponding volume on the sticker, checks the pressure and the absence of leaks at the cylinder and valve. Paints cylinders as needed. Ensures the filling of propylene cylinders when necessary. Prepares the filling of hydrogen trailers. Checks the test date and general condition; connects the hose, purges and fills the trailer based on residual gas; stops filling, records the pressure and checks for leaks.
• Ensures quality control and maintenance: Maintains tools and equipment in good condition. Keeps the plant clean. Stores tools after use, Observes safety rules. Participates in the periodic maintenance of the plant: cleaning generators, cleaning and refilling high-pressure dryers, cleaning nozzles.
• Quality/Safety: Observes safety rules. Follows plant quality procedures. Has the authority to stop any filling if the purity is non-compliant or for any reason that could affect quality. Is responsible and has the authority to initiate any action to prevent the occurrence of a non-conformity. Is responsible and has the authority to record in writing any event that has an impact on quality and to notify the director or their representative in the area where their intervention is required. Is called upon to participate in any team recommendations to provide solutions to any quality-related problems, to any team verification for the implementation of solutions, and to control the continuation of operations related to non-conforming products until correction.
• Handling equipment, material & tools: Acetylene production equipment or reception of this gas in pipeline such as generator, forklift, calcium carbide handling hoist, Wilden and/or Gorman Rupp pumps, pressure regulators, compressors, LP and HP dryer, ammonia scrubber, acetylene purification system, depressurization valves, overpressure valves, Genlis valves, conditioning manifolds, filling manifolds, safety control panel, cylinders, acetone tank, diesel, propylene, acetone pump, propylene pump, propylene cylinders, nitrogen tank, scale, acetylene detector, electrical equipment, analyzer, analysis tube, Claude burette, pressure gauge, hand tools, natural gas furnace, punch, label, shipping documents, calcium carbide, acetylene, acetone, calcium chloride, compressed nitrogen and liquid nitrogen, liquid and gaseous hydrogen, diesel, propylene, compressed air.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED