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Shell hiring 40 production operators for cracker plant (Pennsylvania)
The Times ^ | May 22, 2018 | Jared Stonesifer

Posted on 05/22/2018 10:52:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

POTTER TWP. — Shell Chemicals is hiring 40 production operators who will help run the company’s $6 billion ethane cracker plant once it’s operational early next decade.

Spokesman Joe Minnitte said Tuesday that the job postings are the “first grouping” aimed at local residents who are interested in working at the plant in Potter Township.

The production operators will monitor and control equipment and will also be expected to work in other operations there, according to the job posting.

The posting noted that the production operator shifts will vary while the plant is starting up operations. For instance, operators will initially be required to work a nine-day, 80-hour schedule and will “focus on training to achieve required operational competence for the start-up of the new facility.”

The operators will eventually transition to a 24/7 shift rotation schedule to support start-up activities and under normal operations.

Prospective applicants must have three or more years of operator experience in the petrochemical, refining, utilities or manufacturing industries, or an associate’s degree from a National American Process Technology Alliance program.

In addition, applicants can have military experience in a relevant job function such as aircraft maintenance, diesel mechanics, petroleum or fuel supply specialists or nuclear mechanics, among others.

Each applicant must possess a high school diploma or a GED equivalent, according to the job posting.

Prospective employees also must pass pre-employment medical screenings, background checks and drug tests that include hair and oral fluids. Employees will also be subjected to random drug screenings if they’re hired.

The deadline to apply for the positions is June 3.

Anyone interested in applying may visit Shell’s website at www.shell.us/careers.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News
KEYWORDS: employment; ethane; jobs; pennsylvania

1 posted on 05/22/2018 10:52:57 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But where do they make those crackers with the peanut butter already in them?


2 posted on 05/22/2018 10:56:45 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Not that kind of cracker.

They’re making white people.


3 posted on 05/22/2018 10:58:37 AM PDT by moovova
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

4 posted on 05/22/2018 10:59:34 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: moovova

5 posted on 05/22/2018 11:00:40 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

a “Cracker plant”? Das RAYCISS! We doan need no mo wypipo! (is the sarc tag truely necessary here?)


6 posted on 05/22/2018 11:01:03 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~u/base)
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To: Magnum44

The correct term is “honkadelic.”


7 posted on 05/22/2018 11:13:40 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Disambiguator

I prefer whitebread myself


8 posted on 05/22/2018 11:32:08 AM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought it was a processing plant where 40 crackers shell seafood.


9 posted on 05/22/2018 12:00:21 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Those are the kind of jobs that NY Gov. Cuomo couldn’t allow to come to his state since he wouldn’t allow drilling/fracking in that state for the shale gas that is driving the PA field development.


10 posted on 05/22/2018 12:42:47 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thank you Shell...


11 posted on 05/22/2018 7:26:48 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Since it’s a cracker plant, can only white people work there?


12 posted on 05/23/2018 6:01:35 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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