Get your career started with RVB!!! Rio Valley Biofuels is hiring a Maintenance Technician in El Paso, TX!

We're seeking a hands-on individual who learns best by taking things apart and putting them back together. A Maintenance Technician’s role is to assist and maintain plant equipment of the facility. In addition, Maintenance Technicians will carry out assigned duties in a safe manner.

Schedule: 12-hour rotating shifts (Days/Nights Vary) Days: 7:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. Nights: 7:00 p.m. - 7:30 a.m.

Responsibilities:

• Provide maintenance support to plant equipment such as: product flow pump, liquid and air pumping, seal replacement of liquid pumps, repair diaphragm pumps, mechanical and fluid flow.
• Troubleshoot, remove, rebuild, and install pumps.
• Handles all maintenance of equipment, such as forklifts and power washers.
• Conducts all maintenance of the production facilities, all equipment supporting production, and material handling.
• Cooperates and collaborates with peers in determining maintenance priorities.
• Conducts all maintenance activities ensuring adherence to various governmental laws, codes, regulations, and insurance standards, as related to maintenance of equipment and facilities.
• Make recommendations as required to the Maintenance Manager for equipment repair, replacement, and spare parts.
• Perform maintenance tasks as directed by the Maintenance Manager ensuring proper maintenance and safety, on all appropriate equipment in the facility.
• Ensures continuous support is provided such that the plant suffers from minimal work stoppage for production.
• Able to diagnose problems with machinery: able to test and make adjustments.
• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Experience and/or vocational training in all aspects of maintenance activities.
• Strong experience with rebuilding and maintaining pumps and equipment.
• 3+ years of experience in a maintenance function with Mechanical maintenance activities.
• Experience working in outdoor environments as well as enclosed spaces, as well as knowledge of appropriate safety protocols for various environments.

Job Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental Insurance
• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Benefit Conditions:

• Only full-time employees eligible.

NEW MEXICO'S FIRST Rio Valley Biofuels, LLC was the first commercial producer of biodiesel in the Southwest. We distribute biodiesel as well as diesel fuels and gasoline in Texas, New Mexico, and the surrounding states. Our feedstocks include a large variety of lipid oil sources including used cooking oil, crude cottonseed, tallow, sunflower, canola, soy, and a number of others.

We Are Environmentally Friendly:

• We use all processes possible to eliminate environmental waste.
• Our process for making biodiesel produces ZERO hazardous waste.
• We recycle all our coproducts in efficient and profitable ways.

“Our number one priority is SAFETY.”