What are the responsibilities and job description for the LDAR Technician- Appalachia position at Diversified Energy Company?
Company Profile
Diversified Gas & Oil Corporation (“DGOC”) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Diversified Energy Company PLC, a US-based company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and London Stock Exchange (LSE) under the ticker symbol “DEC”. Diversified Gas & Oil Corporation (DGOC) is an established owner and operator of producing conventional and unconventional natural gas & oil wells and midstream pipelines and compression stations concentrated in the Appalachian Basin in the United States. Headquartered in Birmingham, AL, our field operations are located throughout the Appalachian Basin in the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. In 2021, Diversified announced our expansion into our Central Regional Focus Area, which includes producing areas within Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.
Position Summary & Responsibilities
The EHS Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) Technician will report to the Air Manager and will primarily focus time throughout Pennsylvania with some travel into Ohio and West Virginia. The position can be officed in Waynesburg, PA, Indiana, PA, Jackson Center, PA or Brookville, PA.
Special focus will be placed on:
Diversified Gas & Oil Corporation (“DGOC”) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Diversified Energy Company PLC, a US-based company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and London Stock Exchange (LSE) under the ticker symbol “DEC”. Diversified Gas & Oil Corporation (DGOC) is an established owner and operator of producing conventional and unconventional natural gas & oil wells and midstream pipelines and compression stations concentrated in the Appalachian Basin in the United States. Headquartered in Birmingham, AL, our field operations are located throughout the Appalachian Basin in the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. In 2021, Diversified announced our expansion into our Central Regional Focus Area, which includes producing areas within Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.
Position Summary & Responsibilities
The EHS Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) Technician will report to the Air Manager and will primarily focus time throughout Pennsylvania with some travel into Ohio and West Virginia. The position can be officed in Waynesburg, PA, Indiana, PA, Jackson Center, PA or Brookville, PA.
Special focus will be placed on:
- Maintain a strong bias for action and field presence.
- Provide EHS support to assigned assets, corporate programs and projects.
- Perform field visits, inspections, training, and manage projects.
- Provide guidance and assistance to field operations and operations leaders.
- Perform field visits to verify data, work with operations to attain compliance, respond to agency inquiries.
- Solve problems with creative solutions to produce significant results.
- Performs primarily self-directed in area of responsibility.
- Proactively support and/or lead EHS initiatives that support the business and its themes and corporate strategies.
- Contribute to and influences team priorities as a vital team member or leader. Seeks the ideas and opinions of others.
- Foster trust to encourage and motivate teams to accomplish results.
- Develop and execute compliant LDAR protocols and strategies.
- Perform a variety of applicable data collection and evaluation techniques.
- Prepare reports of activities and maintain records as required by law and company policy and procedures.
- Work often with complex analyzers, instrumentation or equipment for gathering data and for optimizing system performance.
- Coordinate field inspections and repairs with upstream and midstream operations.
- Perform LDAR (Leak Detection and Repair) in accordance with policies and procedures following tasks at assigned natural gas/oil well sites, gathering lines, and compressor stations.
- Routine calibration, certification and maintenance of analyzers (if applicable).
- Maintain and complete monitoring schedules.
- Repair leaking components.
- Generate work requests and follow-up on LDAR maintenance repairs.
- Maintain record-keeping on monitoring and repairs.
- Assist with emission quantification and emission reduction projects as needed.
- Perform other daily operation and maintenance tasks of a routine nature.
- Must have experience in the operation of Gas Infrared Cameras.
- Certified in use of Gas Infrared Cameras, or able to quickly obtain certification upon hire.
- Must have good oral and written communications skills.
- Previous experience working in oil and gas preferred.
- LDAR / Fugitive Emission Monitoring, OpGal or FLIR Camera, Method 21 with TVA 1000B and calibration experience a plus.
- Experience using RMLD devices and other leak detection technology is a plus
- Must have a valid Driver's License.
- Ability to perform work in adverse weather conditions in the field (Work in hot/cold environments, inclement weather)
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
- Will be required to work at varying heights
- Ability to climb ladders 10 ft. , ascending/descending stairs up to ten flights or more in a day
- Ability to bend, stretch, walk and climb with up to 30 lbs - up to 10 hours a day on concrete/steel /gravel surfaces
- Ability to wear a full-body harness and fall arrest system in addition to up to 30 lb. backpack containing monitoring equipment
