Operator - Watford City Plant
Kinder Morgan
- Watford City, ND
- Permanent
- Full-time
Functional Area: Misc./Trades Position Type: Full Time
Experience Required: Less than 1 year Relocation Provided: No
Education Required: High School Diploma
RC/Department: 5972 -GPL-W-WATFORD CITY PLANT :KMPLPosition DescriptionThe operator is responsible for overall daily operations of processing plant and compressor station and assists with maintenance activities.Essential duties and responsibilities:
- Measures and records production at various locations.
- Operates processing plant, gas compressors, pumps, and other related equipment.
- Performs minor repairs and major repairs with assistance from others on compressors and other related equipment.
- Takes callouts and responds in a timely manner.
- Assists mechanical, measurement, and other company personnel as needed.
- Ensures the cost effectiveness and efficiency of all engines and associated equipment.
- Ensures that the product and gas meets the requirement and specs of the customer.
- Operates and maintains compressor stations and processing plant daily. Records production and equipment readings.
- Completes appropriate documentation and paperwork for all activities performed.
- Reports all excessive downtime to appropriate people.
- Maintains company vehicle appropriately.
- Other duties as assigned.
- High school degree or equivalent
- General knowledge of compressor stations, gathering system, and processing plant operations
- Follows company policies, practices, and regulatory requirements
- 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
- Valid state operating license with insurable driving record under company insurance policy
- 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