Gas Distribution System Operations Senior Technician - Gas Controller

#26-73170

Houston, Texas, USA

Gas Acquisition

Full-time

- Provides technical input during incident investigations to identify root causes of flow or pressure anomalies.

- Monitors third-party access and interface points for unauthorized activity or flow disruptions.

- Reviews scheduled maintenance windows to minimize disruption to system balance.

- Initiates contingency plans during incident response to address pressure drops, system imbalances, or supply failures.

- Coordinates with pipeline suppliers and transmission operators to plan hourly and daily gas nominations.

- Identifies flow and pressure conditions that contribute to asset degradation in support of integrity management programs.

- Monitors and controls gas odorization equipment to ensure proper odorization of gas supplied to the distribution systems.

- Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Required Qualifications Education

- High school diploma or equivalent.

Experience

- Typically requires 3 years of related experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

- Power Distribution Systems Management - Managing the delivery of power to end users via interconnected systems.

- Gas Engineering - Design and advise on smooth and safe supply or utilization of gas, including the development, construction, installation, operation, maintenance and repair of gas and gas-related technology.

- Energy Operations Management - Overseeing the proactive, organized and systematic management of energy use in a building or organization.

- Outage Management - A variety of computer-aided systems to identify outages and provide instant alerts, and return power to the electrical distribution systems/ grid.

- Systems Performance Monitoring - Measuring the performance of a system in real time in order to determine problems and other factors that may cause problems in the future.

- Corrosion Control - Implementing processes and methods of combating corrosion by protecting metals against corrosion.

- Health & Safety Management - Designing, developing and implementing formal management systems that can help manage health and safety.

- Regulatory Compliance - Ensuring an organization's adherence to laws, regulations, guidelines and specifications relevant to its business processes.

- Troubleshooting - The systematic process of diagnosing and resolving hardware, software, or network issues to restore normal operation.

- Inspection Management - A critical process of quality control that involves measuring, examining, and reviewing materials against standard requirements to ensure materials or components conform to the standards and latest guidelines.