Equipment Technician

Total Safety is looking for an Equipment Technician to add to their safety conscious team. The Equipment Tech provides quality workmanship in the cleaning, calibrating and repair of various fixed and portable gas monitoring systems and breathing air equipment. Assist in the tasks required to maintain the breathable air loop system used by the customer.

Specific Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Receiving, inspection, cleaning, servicing, reassembling and testing of various SCBA (Self Contained Breathing Apparatus) and other espiratory equipment and breathing air equipment in accordance with approved testing and service procedures.
• Assists others in facility including stocking shelves with clean, tested, and ready to use equipment and pulling, staging, and loading and preparing customer orders. Maintains work area and other areas in a clean and orderly condition. Performs additional duties after training.
• Routine inspection and maintenance of breathing air regulators and reducers
• Completes all documentation and data entry associated with inspection and repair in a timely and accurate manner and obtains signature from customer so that proper invoicing and documentation can be provided to customer as required. This includes all inspection and repair documents, job cost billable expenses and time sheets.
• Conduct detailed visual inspections and system functional tests of various systems and equipment for the purpose of reporting any deficiencies and corrective action recommendations to customer. Assess the repair needed and to quote the customer price and delivery for repair or replacement.
• Obtains and reviews entire work permit at job site. Identifies any work permit mistakes and ensures that mistakes are corrected.
• Sets up the job per procedures for work being performed. Knows who to contact in case of emergency and where the nearest eyewash and safety showers are located.
• Ensures that proper equipment required for job is in place. (e.g. vest, meters, radios, air horn, barricade tape or breathing air barricades and tags; fire extinguisher, charged water hose with nozzle, horn, fire blankets or burlap to cover drains, PPE).
• Follows all steps required before allowing work per guidelines and procedures specific to work being performed.
• Ensured that all workers have on the PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) specified on the permit.
• Follows all procedures while work is in progress. Keeps visual and / or radio communication with crew.
• Observes work conditions and maintains awareness of anything that could endanger the workers.
• Conducts job completion routine and completes all documentation per procedure.
• Gathers equipment and notifies customer that job is complete.
• Performs additional duties as required and assists others as needed.

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Total Safety  is the world's premier provider of integrated safety and compliance services and the products necessary to support them, including gas detection, respiratory protection, safety training, fire protection, compliance and inspection, industrial hygiene, onsite emergency medical treatment / paramedics, communications systems, engineered systems design, and materials management. Our Core Values are People, Safety & Wellbeing, Accountability, Responsibility, Empowerment, Honesty, Transparency, and Integrity.

Total Safety operates from 176 locations in 20 countries to ensure the safe Wellbeing of Workers Worldwide (W3).

Total Safety is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected status.