Job Summary
Provide support to the operational unit by facilitating safe approaches associated with installation, repair & maintenance tasks relative to all types of control, measurement, instrumentation, and electrical components.
Key Accountabilities
•Implements safe work practices and a proactive safety culture while ensuring safety for the employee, the public, and the environment always.
•Ensures regulatory compliance and record keeping requirements are met and continually monitored. The regulations include but are not limited to Homeland Security, Process Safety Management, Department of Transportation, Railroad Commission, and Operator
Qualification Plans.
•Have a basic understanding of the following (or possess the aptitude necessary to learn within the first year of employment) necessary to install, repair & maintain:
•Dehy, Amine, Compressor Plant Power, and control systems
•Pipeline Compression Station and Emergency valve Communications, Power, and controls
•Electronic flow meters (orifice, Mag, Turbine, and ultra-sonic measurement) and relative equipment
•Pressure, flow, level, and temperature indicating equipment.
•Compressor and PDC building safety equipment (fire and gas sensing equipment)
•Programmable logic Controllers
•Ignition and SCADA systems
•Gas chromatograph, Moisture, H2S, O2 and CO2 analyzing equipment
•Remote valve controls and logic
•Rebuild control valves, regulators and XV actuators
•Uninterruptible power-supply systems
•Fiber and cellular communications and networking
•Emergency generator controls
Minimum Education & Experience Requirements
•High School Diploma or Equivalent
•6 years of relevant experience or equivalent technical education
•Possess & maintain a valid driver’s license
Preferred Qualifications
•2 Year Technical degree (i.e – Instrumentation and Controls degree)
Other Qualifications
•Obtain all beginning PSM, CBT and OQ tasks within 6 months
•Emergency Response base level understanding
•High integrity and self-motivated
•Excellent vehicle driving record
•Good communication, problem solving and physical perceptive skills
•Must be able to work and perform without close supervision
Job Description
OPR220 Instrumentation & Electrical Controls Technician I
Physical Demands
The physical demands and essential job functions below are those that must be met by an employee to properly perform the integral functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
•While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms
•The employee is required to reach with hands and arms above his head as well as stoop and kneel to reach items below his normal reach
•The employee is frequently required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to use sense of smell
•Performs minor maintenance as necessary with medium to heavy lifting requirements
•The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds
•Specific vision abilities required by this job include Color vision, Close vision, Distance vision, Peripheral vision,
Depth perception and Ability to adjust focus
•On the spot decision making required in stressful situations
Working Conditions
•Works unsupervised in field operations and works alone 30% of the time
•Works in all types of weather
•Available 24 hours per day for on-call and emergency situations
•Must be able to remain calm and focused during emergency situations
•Requires excellent driving skills and driving record
•Frequently be exposed to work near moving mechanical parts
•Work in high, precarious places
•Work near toxic or caustic chemicals
•The employee is occasionally exposed to wet or humid conditions (non-weather); fumes or airborne particles; risk of electrical shock and vibration
•The noise level in the work environment may be above 90 dB