Assistant Mgr, District Operations (Paullina, IA)

This position provides first-line supervision of technicians and serves as the back up to district management in ensuring safe, reliable and efficient operations of assigned facilities. Emphasis is placed on the complexity of maintaining a 24-hours-a-day operation.

• Responsible for the operation and maintenance of pipeline, farm tap delivery points and town border stations.
• Assist with providing management direction of the human, physical and monetary resources required to meet customer needs and maximize Northern’s business, which includes receiving, transporting, compressing, and delivering the required daily volumes of natural gas consistent with system demands and customer allocation rates using planned resources.
• Assist with direction to skill-based pay employees to ensure safe, reliable, and diligent operations compliant with safety and environmental rules, practices, and company policies, procedures, and standards.
• Review and measure employee activities for assigned facilities to ensure the work is organized and effectively accomplished by skilled employees and partner with the Manager on performance.
• Ensure employees possess the correct skill sets to operate and maintenance of assigned facilities.
• Verify skill sets of each skill-based pay employee.
• Perform critical and meaningful reviews of each assigned employee with input from the manager, the team leader and other subject matter experts.
• Responsible for assigned employee’s cost expenditures to meet capital and operations and maintenance budget requirements and ensure compliance with spending policies.
• Perform administrative activities necessary for the effective management of the department, including employee safety, selection and development of employees, employee counseling and motivation, organization goals and objectives, and planning, organizing, integrating, measuring, and reporting the work performed within the department.
• Perform any additional responsibilities as requested or assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business administration or related field or equivalent work experience. (Typically four years of related, progressive work experience would be needed for candidates applying for this position who do not possess a bachelor’s degree.)
• Requires four to six years’ experience (and/or education combination) in field operations for compression, measurement and pipeline facilities, including one to two years supervisory/ management responsibilities or equivalent.
• Knowledge of business management, general accounting, computer operations and applications and administration skills is also required.
• Required competencies include interpersonal communications, leadership, diplomacy, conflict resolution, team building, project management and excellent planning.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills.
• Effective interpersonal and leadership abilities, including employee coaching and counseling skills.
• Effective analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Must be self-motivated to upgrade and provide continual improvement of assigned facilities.
• Thorough knowledge of pipeline facility operation/maintenance procedures, codes and engineering standards.
• Project management skills; ability to prioritize and handle multiple issues and projects concurrently, with attention to detail.

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