Best Search Recruitment - Our client is involved in providing one stop solutions for the raw materials and intermediates for soap & detergent industry. Over last few years, the company has set up state of art manufacturing plants for LABSA (Sulphonic Acid), Sodium Silicate. They are now getting into the manufacturing of Soap Noodles. In addition they also operate as an indenting agent for door to door supplies of Raw materials for major MNC’s in Nigeria. The company is also operating a subsidiary RCPL.
Job Title: Boiler Operator
Location: Agbara/Ikorodu/Ibadan
Job Description
- To operate or maintain stationary engines, boilers, or other mechanical equipment to provide utilities for buildings or industrial processes. Also operate equipment, such as steam engines, generators, motors, turbines, and steam boilers.
Job Responsibilities/Functions
- Operate and adjust boilers in the steam generating plant, maintaining maximum boiler efficiency by adjusting, reading, and interpreting gauges, indicators, and steam flow meters
- Maintain various records and reports in boiler log
- Make regular checks of plant equipment and make adjustments, repairs, and service equipment as required
- Supervise or perform the chemical testing and treatment of boiler feed water
- Maintain site tidiness and general good housekeeping throughout the boiler plant
- Ensure compliance with Health and Safety procedures
- Operate or tend stationary engines, boilers, and auxiliary equipment such as pumps, compressors, and air-conditioning equipment, to supply and maintain steam or heat for buildings, marine vessels, or pneumatic tools.
- Observe and interpret readings on gauges, meters, and charts registering various aspects of boiler operation to ensure that boilers are operating properly.
- Test boiler water quality or arrange for testing and take necessary corrective action, such as adding chemicals to prevent corrosion and harmful deposits.
- Activate valves to maintain required amounts of water in boilers, to adjust supplies of combustion air, and to control the flow of fuel into burners.
- Monitor boiler water, chemical, and fuel levels, and make adjustments to maintain required levels.
- Fire coal furnaces by hand or with stokers and gas- or oil-fed boilers, using automatic gas feeds or oil pumps.
- Monitor and inspect equipment, computer terminals, switches, valves, gauges, alarms, safety devices, and meters to detect leaks or malfunctions and to ensure that equipment is operating efficiently and safely.
- Analyze problems and take appropriate action to ensure continuous and reliable operation of equipment and systems
- Maintain daily logs of operation, maintenance, and safety activities, including test results, instrument readings, and details of equipment malfunctions and maintenance work.
- Adjust controls and/or valves on equipment to provide power, and to regulate and set operations of system or industrial processes.
- Switch from automatic to manual controls and isolate equipment mechanically and electrically to allow for safe inspection and repair work.
- Clean and lubricate boilers and auxiliary equipment and make minor adjustments as needed, using hand tools.
- Check the air quality of ventilation systems and make adjustments to ensure compliance with mandated safety codes.
- Perform or arrange for repairs, such as complete overhauls, replacement of defective valves, gaskets, or bearings, or fabrication of new parts.
- Supervise the work of assistant stationary engineers, turbine operators, boiler tenders, or air conditioning and refrigeration operators and mechanics.
- Receive instructions from steam engineers regarding steam plant and air compressor operations.
- Ignite fuel in burners, using torches or flames.
- Weigh, measure, and record fuel used.
- Develop operation, safety, and maintenance procedures or assist in their development.
- Install burners and auxiliary equipment, using hand tools.
- Contact equipment manufacturers or appropriate specialists when necessary to resolve equipment problems.
- Test electrical systems to determine voltages, using voltage meters.
- Investigate and report on accidents.
- Operate mechanical hoppers and provide assistance in their adjustment and repair.
- Provide assistance to plumbers in repairing or replacing water, sewer, or waste lines, and in daily maintenance activities.
Qualifications
- B.SC/HND in a related field .
- Minimum of 3+ years in similar field/position in a chemical or cosmetic industry/plant Ability to demonstrate experience of operating steam boilers in a chemical or cosmetic industry/plant.
- Proof of evidence of being a certified boiler operator.
Skills and Abilities:
- Thorough knowledge of the proper operation and maintenance of high pressure steam generation plant equipment
- Comprehensive knowledge of steam plant safety standards and procedure
- Ability to read and interpret schematic diagrams, written orders, control gauges, manufacturer's operating instructions, and to record boiler plant information
- Ability to operate and regulate boiler plant equipment and to make adjustments as required for plant output
- Ability to understand and follow complex oral or written instructions on power plant operation
- Skill in repairing and maintaining various types of steam plant equipment.
Application Closing Date
11th May, 2014.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their applications to:
[email protected]