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Overview

Huntsman is seeking a Maintenance Technician to support the Advanced Materials Division in Los Angeles, California. This hands-on role focuses on ensuring safe and reliable manufacturing operations through preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance on production equipment and facility systems.

Responsibilities

  • Perform scheduled preventive and predictive maintenance on manufacturing equipment, utilities, and facility systems.
  • Inspect equipment for wear, leaks, vibration, alignment issues, and other conditions that could affect reliability or safety.
  • Identify developing equipment issues and take or recommend corrective action before failure occurs.
  • Perform lubrication, adjustments, component replacement, rebuilds, and other routine maintenance.
  • Troubleshoot equipment failures, determine causes, and safely restore equipment to service.
  • Respond to breakdowns, urgent maintenance needs, and emergency call-ins to minimize downtime.
  • Diagnose mechanical problems involving various industrial equipment.
  • Repair, replace, rebuild, and adjust mechanical equipment and components.
  • Perform equipment alignment, piping repairs, welding, fabrication, and related work.
  • Verify equipment is safe and ready for return to service following maintenance.
  • Support equipment installation, modification, relocation, and commissioning.
  • Identify and support improvements to equipment safety, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
  • Accurately document inspections, repairs, equipment conditions, labor, and parts in the applicable CMMS/EAM system.
  • Read and use equipment manuals, drawings, schematics, procedures, and work instructions.
  • Identify required parts, materials, and tools and maintain organized work areas and equipment.
  • Follow site Environmental, Health and Safety requirements, Lockout/Tagout procedures, permits, and safe work practices.
  • Use required PPE and respiratory protection and follow applicable requirements for confined spaces, work at heights, hot work, and elevated work platforms.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED.
  • Minimum four years of hands-on industrial maintenance experience.
  • Demonstrated mechanical maintenance and troubleshooting experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment.
  • Experience with industrial mechanical equipment such as pumps, seals, bearings, gearboxes, valves, piping, pneumatics, hydraulics, mixers, and compressors.
  • Ability to read and understand equipment manuals, mechanical drawings, schematics, procedures, and work instructions.
  • Working knowledge of industrial maintenance safety practices, including Lockout/Tagout.
  • Basic computer and mathematical skills and ability to accurately complete required documentation.
  • Must be willing and able to work any assigned shift, including first, second, and third shift, as well as staggered hours, overtime, weekends, holidays, emergency call-ins, and alternative work schedules based on business needs.
  • Ability to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Position is scheduled Monday through Friday on either 6:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., 2:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., or 10:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.
  • Work is performed in an industrial chemical manufacturing environment involving production equipment, hazardous and flammable chemicals, utilities, outdoor areas, elevated work areas, and confined spaces.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Los Angeles, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting comes in about 11% below the $43/hr median for welding jobs in Los Angeles, CA, where the middle half runs $31–$63/hr across 34 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 41% 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 Los Angeles, CA

We're tracking 51 other active welding openings in Los Angeles, CA right now, from 36 different employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across California as a whole we're tracking 418 other active welding openings from 205 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Los Angeles, or widen the search to California.

The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (27), Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (16), and Honeywell Aerospace (15). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within California, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Santa Ana at $48/hr, Long Beach at $43/hr, and Los Angeles at $43/hr. Los Angeles is among them.

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