Field Service Technician – Fired Equipment Group Full Time

Your Job

Join the team at Koch Glitsch & John Zink as a Field Service Technician for a remote position with travel servicing assigned territories. Typically up to 90% travel to customer sites. You’ll be responsible for providing all-encompassing support, including preventative maintenance, emergency assistance, troubleshooting, automation support, and commissioning for new and existing equipment.

Our Team

At Koch Glitsch you will work with top-of-the-line John Zink equipment, such as burners, flares, thermal oxidizers, boiler burners. As a Koch Engineered Solutions company, Koch-Glitsch keeps our customers’ operations running with a wide range of innovative products and solutions serving the refining, chemical and petrochemical industries. As a full-service provider of mass transfer, mist elimination and phase separation equipment, we handle everything from design and fabrication to delivery and installation.

What You Will Do

• The successful candidate for this role will be responsible for installation supervision, troubleshooting and maintenance recommendations to our customers.
• They will have operational and functional knowledge of register burners, duct burners or utility burners and must possess good mechanical aptitude with the ability to learn complex mechanical systems.
• The successful candidate will also need to know how to communicate with PLC’s, PLC logic, and HMI’s and have a rudimentary knowledge of electrical design and wiring skills.
• The technician will be expected to travel on a regular basis to customer job sites.
• The typical base pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $50 to $65 CAD per hour but could be higher if the successful candidate is experienced in the industry.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience working with register burners, duct burners or utility burners
• Experience working with PLC’s and PLC programming for controlling combustion equipment or similar equipment
• Able to travel to job sites approximately 90% of the time
• Valid passport or ability to obtain a valid passport
• Valid Drivers License
• Candidate must live within a 80km radius of a major airport.

Physical requirements:

• Able to lift up to 75# occasionally and 50# routinely, able to bend, stoop, crawl and maneuver around skidded equipment and piping.
• Able to hear distinct sounds, visualize all colors of spectrum and visually see up close and at distance.
• This work is performed in an outdoor environments and long workdays are expected on occasion.

What Will Put You Ahead

• 2-year Technical Degree from an accredited college or trade school in a mechanically-based technical major, OR 4 years of military service working with boilers
• Work experience with any brand of burners, duct burners, or utility burners.
• Experience working on Allen Bradley PLC’s, in the combustion or steam generation industries.
• Field work experience in the petrochemical, power generation, pulp & paper or food processing industries.
• Gas Fitter A Certification
• Ability to perform hands-on work in the US

This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship.

General Salary Range

For this role, we anticipate an hourly rate ranging from $50 to $65 CAD an hour as we are open to candidates from a wide range of career levels. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

John Zink is a global leader in combustion and emission control. We deliver reliable and tailored solutions that include industrial burners, flares, thermal oxidizers, and vapor control systems. Backed by decades of proven performance, industry-leading research and development, and expert service and support, we help our partners optimize performance and achieve long-term success. Our commitment to excellence drives meaningful progress and delivers lasting impact for the industries we serve.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

How to Apply

If you have the above qualifications, we would like to hear from you. We thank all applicants in advance, but please be advised that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation or assistance at any time during the application or selection processes, please submit a request by following the directions located in the FAQ section at the bottom of the kochcareers.com webpage.

Successful candidates will be required to complete a criminal background check.

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