What are the responsibilities and job description for the E&C Technician - Norse Gas Plant position at Kinder Morgan, Inc.?
Position Description
Essential duties and responsibilities:
Education and/or experience:
Essential duties and responsibilities:
- Understands accepted troubleshooting guidelines for PLC, control valves and all PLC logic.
- Posses overall knowledge of the installation, operation, repair, of assigned equipment.
- Maintains sufficient inventory of electrical supplies and repair parts to meet most emergency situations.
- Takes care of company vehicle, keeping it clean and organized.
- Reports any unsafe practices or actions to supervisor.
- Continues to look for better and more efficient ways of doing job.
- Keeps lines of communication open to supervisor and other company employees while meeting the needs of all customers.
- Makes call outs on equipment.
- Works with project managers, engineering and contractors on all new construction projects.
- Maintain all controls, monitor alarms and sensor tests.
- Troubleshooting and scheduling electrical maintenance for the assigned location.
- Solid understanding of electrical motor control.
- Knowledge of electrical prints and capable of making appropriate red-line changes to them.
- Assist PLC programming personnel.
- Good understanding of PLC cause and effect.
- Supervise electrical contractors.
- Other duties as assigned.
- All tasks are to be performed in consideration of the following:
- Adherence to state, federal and local laws and regulations.
- Adherence to all company policies and procedures.
- Practice of company core values.
- Safety in the forefront of every task performed.
- Position may be filled at various levels depending on experience and job skills of successful candidate.
Education and/or experience:
- High school degree or equivalent.
- General knowledge of compressor stations, gathering system, and processing plant operations.
- Journeyman electrician.
- 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.
- Ability to make quick and reasonable decisions in sometimes-adverse conditions.
- Valid operating license with acceptable driving record.
- 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.
- 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.