CAREERS

The Vibration Analyst is responsible for ensuring all condition-based maintenance assessments (CBM) are completed and reported out per the client proposal and meets company standards for quality and delivery.

Key factors for the position:

• Ability to spend long hours outside walking, climbing, bending, turning, twisting while collecting data on various industrial machines in plants, mills, mines, ships, wharfs, docks, manufacturing sites, etc.
• Ability to work in a team with a high regard for safety and environmental concerns
• A strong commitment to company policies, procedures and best practices.
• Effective written, verbal, and communication skills to satisfy training, safety, and electronic message transmission policies of the company.
• Hands-on, mechanical repair maintenance and rebuild experience with industrial equipment (pumps, motors, gearboxes, pulleys, etc.)
• Journeyman level ability to read, understand and apply information from technical manuals and other reference materials.

Job description: A vibration analyst is a key position within our Field Service Group (FSG). The main job function is to walk around client’s sites with a portable vibration data collection analyzer, placing a magnetic accelerometer on designated equipment. Then collect vibration signatures for analysis and reporting. Understand the data collected, making decisions and reporting on the health of machine condition: acceptable, notable, reportable.

Key Duties, Responsibilities and Aptitude

• Assumes responsibility for the overall safety of the work environment.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with company, client, OSHA, and other applicable rules & standards.
• Perform Safety Observations, and Job Safety Analysis, as needed.
• Ensures that work area is clean, secure, and well maintained.
• Collects vibration data on machinery operating within industrial sites.
• Performs analysis and collaboration on reporting for all data.
• Assess machine health in accordance with company best practices and standards.
• Maintains technology databases with current information.
• Assists in program setup as required.
• Use of basic hand tools.
• Responsible for equipment walk down and information gathering.
• Responsible for assisting in creating, optimizing and maintaining technology databases.
• Assumes responsibility for communication and education between the company and clients.
• Responsible for communicating company deliverables to the client.
• Responsible for the accuracy and the timeliness of all communications and reporting.
• Responsible for assisting and reporting failure modes, faults, alarms and notifications.
• Monitoring baseline data acquisition & assist in analysis troubleshooting.
• Able and willing to work on-call and off shift as required by customers or management.
• Route data collect is a physical activity, and sometimes requires data acquisition in inclement weather.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Travel is often required for this position.
• Work collaboratively with peers, management and support staff to maintain thorough knowledge of needs, capabilities, and ensure all communications between company and clients are known and understood.
• Other duties as may be assigned.

Training will include, but are not limited to: Safety Council training and classes for OSHA requirements.

• All necessary client-based training, site specific safety, PSM

Functional Needs:

• Collection of vibration data on-site
• Vibration analysis (supervised)
• Certificates Required (company provides training; both initial and ongoing)
• Perform supervised vibration analysis and write reports of findings

Preferred skills (can be equivalents or experience):

• Mechanical repair experience.
• NCCER and NCCER Plus certification
• Collecting and analyzing vibration data.
• Building vibration database.
• Training customers in collecting and transferring data

Work Requirements:

• US Citizen or Resident Green Card. No immigration assistance offered for this position.
• Pass deep background check.
• Pass urinalysis test for banned substances.
• Pass breath alcohol test.