Pipefitter, Level T24, 1st Shift

SC Johnson•Racine, WI

5d•Onsite

About The Position

SC Johnson is hiring a Pipefitter to inspect, repair, and install piping, pumps, and valves, while adhering to the planned weekly work schedule. The role requires flexibility and includes maintaining production, processing, and facility systems, responding to equipment breakdowns, carrying out preventive maintenance, and documenting work in a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). The technician uses troubleshooting and predictive maintenance methods to identify equipment failures and determine appropriate corrective actions. The role involves working independently and collaboratively, participating in team meetings, problem solving, root cause analysis, consensus decision making, and performance appraisal processes. Team members are expected to learn, teach others, take ownership of manufacturing processes, communicate with contacts outside their work group, and follow plant and maintenance safety procedures, including Lock-Out/Tag-Out, Arc Flash, and Hot Work Permits. Pipefitting duties include maintaining steam and condensate systems, facility water and sewer systems, and related plumbing fixtures and components. The position requires physical capability to work at heights and in confined spaces, and to perform physical tasks throughout the workday. Other duties may be assigned by the Manager. The position is at-will and the job description does not constitute a contract of employment.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
Six to eight years of experience in a related field.
Current knowledge or background in the pipefitting trade with strong pipefitting skills.
State welding structural certifications.
Ability to use blueprints and P&ID schematics to make accurate changes when modifying facility and production equipment.
Experience repairing and maintaining steam and condensate systems.
Experience repairing and maintaining facility water and sewer systems.
Experience cutting, threading, and fitting pipe to specifications using tools such as saws, cutting torches, pipe threaders, and benders.
Experience assembling and securing pipes, tubes, fittings, and related equipment according to specifications using welding, brazing, cementing, soldering, and threaded joints.
Experience attaching pipes to walls, structures, and fixtures using brackets, clamps, tools, or welding equipment.
Experience inspecting, examining, and testing installed systems and pipelines using pressure gauges, hydrostatic testing, observation, and other methods.
Experience planning pipe system layouts and performing installation or repairs according to specifications.
Knowledge of selecting pipe sizes, types, and related materials such as supports, hangers, and hydraulic cylinders according to specifications.
Knowledge of cutting and boring holes in structures before pipe installation using hand and power tools.
Experience installing automatic controls used to regulate pipe systems and inspecting work sites for obstructions and potential structural weakness from holes.
Knowledge of operating motorized pumps to remove water from flooded manholes, basements, or facility floors.
Ability to make appropriate judgments when direct or indirect intervention on equipment is required.
Ability to work independently and collaboratively in small and large groups.
Ability to stand, walk, kneel, climb stairs and ladders, lift, and use hands and fingers for work tasks.
Physical ability to work at heights on ladders and lifts and in confined spaces.
Ability to lift up to 50 pounds occasionally and perform physical activities including standing, sitting, walking, bending, climbing, kneeling, reaching overhead, pushing, and pulling for up to eight hours daily.

Nice To Haves

Completed an apprenticeship in steam fitting, welder fitting, or industrial plumbing and pipefitting, with five years of experience.
Training in project management, including providing project status reports to leads.
Pump repair and troubleshooting certification.
Ability to analyze and solve recurring and complex technical problems and deliver solutions, resolving issues with limited technical support or supervisory approval.
State welding LPG certifications.

Responsibilities

Inspect, repair, and install piping, pumps, and valves.
Follow planned preventive maintenance and weekly work schedules.
Contribute to and perform process improvements to equipment.
Respond to emergency equipment breakdowns and resolve equipment malfunctions.
Prepare complete and accurate system records and document planned and unplanned work findings and data in the CMMS during the shift.
Repair and maintain a wide variety of production, processing, and facility equipment using troubleshooting skills.
Use predictive maintenance technologies, including ultrasound, thermal imaging, oil analysis, and vibration analysis, and take appropriate follow-up actions.
Comply with plant and maintenance safety procedures, including Lock-Out/Tag-Out, Arc Flash, and Hot Work Permits.
Communicate work-related information to contacts outside the work group.
Participate constructively in team meetings, consensus decision making, problem solving, root cause analysis, and the performance appraisal process.
Learn, teach others, and take responsibility and ownership for aspects of the manufacturing process.
Clean and replace traps, drains, vents, drain lines, faucets, and toilets.
Modify, clean, and maintain pipe systems, units, fittings, related machinery, and equipment according to specifications.
Perform other duties and activities as assigned by the Manager.