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Pipeline Operator - Intermediate

Location: Wheeler, TX

Time Type: Full time

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Perform pipeline operations and maintenance activities on systems including compressor stations, gas storages, dehydration facilities, pumping facilities, measurement facilities, and related equipment.
• Startup and shutdown
• Pigging
• Collecting liquids
• Changing charts
• Gauging tanks
• Locating and marking lines
• Monitoring cathodic protection/basic pipe coatings
• Leakage survey/patrolling pipelines
• Blowing drips
• Perform and/or dispatch line locates
• Construction watch
• Monitor usage and/or replace lubricants, fluids, inhibitors, chemicals, etc., as needed to ensure safe and efficient operation of equipment.
• Exchange information regarding pipeline operations, maintenance, measurement, and other activities with public/governmental officials, employees, contractors, customers, producers, and landowners.
• Provide calculations, compile, and/or prepare information and reports.

Work Experience: 

• Experience operating and maintaining pipeline systems and related equipment utilized in natural gas and liquids gathering and transmission systems
• Experience in various field functions including measurement, cathodic protection, and compressor/pump station operations
• Experience in maintenance and the repair of equipment
• Experience, training and/or knowledge of company and governmental operating/safety procedures and environmental regulations
• Characteristics of natural gas and gas liquids
• Pigging pipelines, blowing drips, gauging tanks, and collecting liquids
• Construction methods
• Experience in patrolling pipelines, performing leakage surveys, and locating/marking lines
• Experience in working with valves and dehydration equipment, scrubbers, and separators
• Experience in use and function of applications such as Microsoft Excel, Project, Access, Word, etc.
• Experience interacting, negotiating, advising and communicating effectively and in exchanging written and verbal information and instructions

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of cathodic protection/corrosion control activities
• Ability to use tools and equipment including computers and related software
• Ability to establish, prioritize assignments and complete assignments in a timely manner with limited supervision
• Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify alternate solutions or approaches to a problem
• Ability to communicate thoughts, ideas, information, messages and other written information, which may contain technical material, in a logical, organized and coherent manner
• Ability to apply the use of formulas to estimate or calculate flow rates and volumes
• Ability to apply basic arithmetic to include addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division

Physical Demands/Requirements:

• Heavy Work - Exerting 50 to 100 pounds of force occasionally and/or 25 to 50 pounds of force frequently and/or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Medium Work.

• Employee is subject to inside and outside environmental conditions