SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY
JOB PROFILE
Job Title: Station Operations Specialist
Department: Transmission and Storage/ETS
Location: Transmission Regions-Various
Grade: 6
Reports to:
Class Code: 075150
THIS PROFILE DOES NOT ATTEMPT TO LIST ALL OF THE DUTIES THAT ARE OR MAY BE PERFORMED IN THIS CLASSIFICATION.
Overview
Operates, maintains, inspects, and troubleshoots basic and complex gas compressor, auxiliary, and process equipment at transmission compressor stations and underground storage fields.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Schedules work assignments to ensure that workforce, equipment, and materials are available to accomplish assigned work.
- Provides work direction to crew members on a daily basis while operating compressors station and underground storage facilities.
- Trains, instructs, and guides crew members in all aspects of their job duties.
- Inspects work of other employees and contractors to ensure that assignments are completed properly and safely.
- Provides general feedback to supervision as required.
- Operates and directs other to operate facilities to achieve and maintain optimum efficiency.
- Understands regulatory compliance related to applicable operating and permit requirements. Understands advanced gas storage and dehydration concepts.
- May operate gas compression and process facilities unsupervised.
- Starts, stops, and adjusts: Gas turbines, compressors, electric motors, steam turbines, generators, steam boilers, pumps, valves, and related equipment.
- Troubleshoots and during emergencies, makes minor repairs to station and storage field equipment.
- Maintains facility pressures and volumes as required by Gas Control and local operating strategy.
- Operates and troubleshoots dehydration facilities, glycol facilities, oil production/stabilization facilities, etc.
- Records pressures, volumes, and temperatures. Calculates rates and volumes.
- Understands emissions monitoring equipment and takes action to ensure facility compliance with emissions regulations.
- Understands engine analysis equipment and assists in evaluation of performance data.
- Accesses telemetric and SCADA control equipment for monitoring purposes.
- Assures facility logs and clerical records are accurate, timely, and complete.
Contacts
Frequent contacts include: Gas Control, compressor station and underground storage facility managers. Contacts contractors, suppliers, and vendors. Able to communicate clearly.
Minimum Qualifications
Must successfully pass the Physical Abilities Test. Must possess a valid California Driver’s License. Must pass a pre-employment drug test if a new hire or transferring from a non-safety sensitive job. Requires participation in the Company’s random drug testing program. Intermediate computer skills required. Must have previous satisfactory experience as a Transmission Technician or equivalent. Must pass a pre-qualification examination.
Desired Qualifications
Experience in the Transmission Technician-Station Specialty classification. Extensive experience with internal combustion engines or other mechanical equipment, vocational training in basic electricity and electronics, previous experience in related industries, experience with operating facility/activity-specific software, common word processing and spreadsheet programs.
Other
May be required to work various shifts, on a rotating basis. May be required to work emergency call-outs and be able to work occasional extensive hours.
May be required to Job Site Report.
Physical Demand
Heavy - Frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighting up to 50 pounds with lifting up to approximately 100 pounds as required. Equipment and materials exceeding 75 pounds are to be maneuvered through leveraging techniques and employees are instructed to work within their optimum carry ability and use lifting devices, carry aids (e. g. hand truck) and/or request assistance.
Environmental Conditions
Work may be indoors in an office or control room, in an engine/equipment room, or outdoors. May be exposed to extremes of climate and temperatures, high noise levels, rotating and vibrating equipment, rough terrain, occasional work on ladders or high platforms, as well as confined spaces. May be exposed to high pressure gas. May be required to handle hazardous materials, and hazardous waste.
Equipment
Operates or uses pipe locator, leak detector, power or hand tools, gauges, hand-held electronic instruments, desk top laptop computer.
Represented Yes No Both x
Safety Sensitive Job
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No
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[12/31/97]