Operations Specialist - East Camp Creek at Kinder Morgan, Inc. in Watford City, North Dakota

Job Description:

Position Description

This is a journey level nonexempt position and works under general supervision. Performs a variety of activities, including pipeline pigging, maintenance of right-of-way and grounds around pipeline or other facilities, maintenance and repairs on pipeline and pipeline equipment, oversee construction of pipeline, line locates, and relief gauging.

Essential duties and responsibilities:
• Make safety a top priority each day. Insure compliance with manuals and policies.
• Make environmental integrity a priority each day.
• Ensure the pipeline is maintained by following the pigging schedule, maintaining ROW, and repairing and maintaining equipment.
• Take responsibility for small maintenance and expansion projects including assessing scope, procuring materials and contractors, and supervising the work with the advice and assistance of your supervisor.
• Fill in for gaugers when needed.
• Monitor and troubleshoot Gain/Loss issues on the system, seeking fair volume assessments at all locations.
• Service and maintain field pumps and LACT units. Keep locations clean.
• Daily observe any traveled section of the pipeline for leaks, line markers, and needed maintenance.
• Perform line locating responsibilities.
• Report all leaks to your supervisor immediately. Report any needed repairs to the supervisor in a timely fashion.
• Keep company vehicles, field equipment, stations, and shop areas clean, serviced, and organized.
• Keep all paperwork and documentation required up to date and complete.
• Work with customers and fellow employees to provide excellent customer service.
• During "on call" status, individual need to have cell phone with them at all times. Timely responses are essential.
Position Requirements

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Customer orientation.
• Ability to effectively present information in a one-on-one and small group situation to other employees of the company and outside contractors.
• Basic math skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals).
• Apply common sense understanding to carry out day-to-day operation issues.
• Be able to make quick and reasonable decisions in sometimes-adverse conditions.

Education and/or experience:
• High school degree or equivalent.
• Follows company policies, practices, and regulatory requirements.

Certificates, licenses, registrations:
• Valid state operating license with driving record acceptable under company insurance policy.

Physical demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Uses physical force to lift, push, pull and hold equipment/tools.
• Climbs and works at various heights. May work in a standing, sitting, lying down, crouched or kneeling position.
• Routinely reacts to visual, aural and other signals, including alarms and instructions, and is required to visually inspect work.
• Regularly bends, stoops, moves from ground level to higher levels, raises/lifts from ground level a load up to 50 lbs., manually transports a load up to 75 lbs., and applies up to 150 foot pounds of torque.
• Regularly gets into and out of vehicles and rides over rough roads.
• Walks an average of 5 miles per day, up to 7 miles per day.
• Candidates may be subject to Department of Transportation (DOT) drug and alcohol testing requirements.
• Subject to overtime and call-outs.
• Because this position requires donning SCBA (Self Contained Breathing Apparatus), employees must pass a SCBA fit test and screening as a condition of employment.

Working conditions: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Works mostly outdoors, in and around mechanical, industrial and electrical equipment.
• Required to climb about equipment and work in confined areas (i.e. tanks, between compressors, vessels).
• May be subject to work in hazardous conditions including hydrocarbon vapor, adverse weather conditions, and extreme temperatures.
• Wears safety equipment as required.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER STATEMENT: We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.