Job Description

Overview

Safety-Kleen is seeking a Refinery Operator to join our team in East Chicago, IN. This Union position focuses on refinery operations and requires flexibility to work various shifts.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure Health and Safety is the number one priority by complying with all safe work practices, policies, and processes.
  • Responsible for sampling from various process equipment and tanks, loading and offloading caustic from tankers.
  • Prepare the sample, submit for lab analysis, and enter data in the computer system for tracking and accounting.
  • Accurately complete various shipping and receiving documents.
  • Perform daily inspections as required by environmental permits and MARSEC (USCG) requirements related to Homeland Security.
  • Use a forklift.
  • Other duties as required.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED.
  • Must be able to obtain a TWIC card.
  • 1-3 years experience in a plant or industrial environment preferred.
  • 1-3 years in a production driven environment preferred.
  • 1+ years forklift experience preferred.
  • Oil and gas experience is an asset.
  • Mechanically inclined or familiar with general tools.
  • Computer literate and can operate an IPAD.
  • Punctual for work.
  • Proficient in MS Office Suite – Excel, Word and Outlook.
  • Must be able to work in the elements.
  • Must be able to work at heights.
  • Lift up to 50lbs, climb, stoop, bend, and stand for long periods.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This is a Union position starting at $25.47.
  • Location: East Chicago, IN.
  • Flexible to work all shifts: days, swings, and graveyards as needed.

Benefits

Health Insurance
PTO

How this job compares in East Chicago, IN

Pay in context

At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 12% below the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Indiana, where the middle half runs $23–$31/hr across 92 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 35% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in East Chicago, IN

East Chicago, IN currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 5 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Indiana as a whole we're tracking 168 other active welding openings from 106 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in East Chicago, or widen the search to Indiana.

The most active employers in Indiana at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are NCW (36), Aerotek (6), and SMS group (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Similar openings near East Chicago, IN

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Refinery Operator I figures were last recalculated when this page was built.