1st Class Mechanic – Catalyst Team

About the role

Join BASF’s Catalysts division as a 1st Class Mechanic on the McIntyre, GA site. You will work on complex equipment that supports mobile emissions and process catalyst production, ensuring safe and efficient operation.

Key responsibilities

• Recognize and practice safe work habits in all daily duties.
• Install, rearrange, align, dismantle, repair, and reassemble complex equipment; diagnose equipment failures.
• Perform fabrication, assembly, welding, cutting, and pipefitting using oxy‑acetylene, plasma arc, shielded arc, tungsten arc, flux‑cored, carbon‑arc, gouging, and submerged‑arc methods.
• Occasionally work in related trades such as rigging, rough carpentry, and machining.
• Use mechanic tools, inspection gauges, and shop math; operate production equipment for verification.
• Interpret drawings, sketches, verbal instructions, and technical manuals to execute tasks.
• Inspect own and peers’ work for quality and dimensional compliance.
• Maintain a clean work area, remove debris and lubricants.
• Repair piping and valves; install new pipe, valves, and control devices.
• Rig equipment for lifting with hoists or cranes, handling loads of several thousand pounds.
• Complete routine paperwork and access CMMS information using basic computer skills.

Required profile

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Prior experience with rotating equipment or in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to start, stop, and operate all shop equipment.
• Capability to work with water‑soluble and oil‑based lubricants.
• Comfort working on ladders, scaffolds, pits, and lifting 50 lb intermittently (heavier loads lifted with equipment).
• Union position under United Steel Workers (USW) covered by a collective bargaining agreement.

Required skills

• Welding (oxy‑acetylene, plasma arc, shielded arc, tungsten arc, flux‑cored, carbon‑arc, gouging, submerged arc).
• Pipefitting and valve repair.
• Mechanical assembly and equipment diagnostics.
• Use of inspection gauges and shop tools.
• Reading and interpreting technical drawings and manuals.
• CMMS usage and basic computer proficiency.