Maintenance Technician

LyondellBasell
Carpentersville, IL

LyondellBasell is a leader in the global chemical industry creating solutions for everyday sustainable living. With a nearly 70-year legacy that includes a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and our proprietary MoReTec recycling technology, LYB is enabling a more sustainable future for generations to come. LYB develops high-quality and innovative products for applications ranging from sustainable transportation and food safety to clean water and quality healthcare. LYB places high priority on diversity, equity and inclusion and is Advancing Good with an emphasis on our planet, the communities where we operate and our future workforce. We're addressing the global challenges of ending plastic waste, taking climate action, and supporting a thriving society, while generating value for our customers, investors, and society.

Come Join an Inclusive Team

This position has the responsibility for monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing various equipment as well as driving improvements on plant throughput, profitability, stability, reliability, and safety for facility. This includes leading reliability and plant performance improvements, expense and capital projects, supporting maintenance efforts, drive improvements in maintenance work processes, procedures, performance, and cost.

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A Day in the Life

• Support and participate in the site’s safety programs
• Troubleshoot issues with mechanical equipment (pressure vessels, heat exchangers, reciprocating and centrifugal compressors, gearboxes, blowers, boilers, PLC’s, vacuum, viking pumps, extruder, cooling towers)
• Conduct investigations to determine root cause of equipment failures, complete and close findings as required
• Lead or participate in site reliability improvement teams which identify, prioritize, and resolve leveraging maintenance / reliability / production issues
• Assist in the development of the yearly maintenance budget and program spending plans
• Provide technical/engineering specifications for design of new and inspection/repair of existing pieces of mechanical equipment
• Provide support to establish adequate spare parts and preventative maintenance tasks on Equipment
• Provide planning support for major machinery overhauls, equipment replacement, specifying scope of required work and technical details to ensure successful execution
• Maintain site systems and procedures to implement corporate engineering and operational excellence standards
• Provides technical consultation, formal and informal training, and development of documentation, standards, and procedures in relation to their role
• Develop opportunities and assess benefits to be prioritized into a long range capital plan
• Support capital projects from initiation to installation
• Support all LyondellBasell standards, procedures, policies and practices
• Work with maintenance, operations or other departments to carry out responsibilities
• Mentor engineers, specialists, and technicians and provide training in the area of mechanical equipment operation and repair
• Other roles and responsibilities as assigned applying to the Maintenance & Reliability Engineer position

Hours of work may exceed typical 40 hour work week, on call work may be required

You Bring This Value

  • Minimum of five years of maintenance or reliability experience in a manufacturing setting
  • Ability additional work hours, and on-call work
  • Candidates must have excellent leadership, ethics, teamwork, and communication skills with a results oriented commitment.
  • The ability to manage multiple and changing priorities is essential
  • This position requires negotiating skills and the ability to resolve conflict across departmental lines to achieve objectives
  • Must have strong computer skills including Microsoft Office, ERP (preferably SAP) including Preventive Maintenance (PM) function
  • A thorough knowledge of operating processes, equipment, and materials
  • Previous experience with electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic equipment; Electrical Control Panels, PLCs, gearboxes, motors
  • Strong commitment to safety, a high level of personal integrity, and dedication to conducting business in an ethical way
  • Ability to manage multiple/changing priorities
  • Advanced level of interpersonal capability to provide timely and effective problem solving
  • Ability to communicate clearly and concisely both orally and in writing
  • General knowledge of project management, mechanical reliability, and root cause analysis

Competencies

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Posted 2025-09-26

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