Field Controls Technician I - Washington, MI

About the Role

This entry-level position provides support to the operational unit by facilitating safe approaches associated with installation, repair, and maintenance tasks relative to all types of control, measurement, instrumentation, and electrical components.

Responsibilities

• Implements safe work practices and a proactive safety culture while ensuring safety for the employee, the public, and the environment.
• Ensures regulatory compliance and record-keeping requirements are met and continually monitored, including but not limited to Department of Transportation and Operator Qualification Plans.
• Develops a basic understanding of the following (or possesses the aptitude to learn within the first year of employment) to install, repair, and maintain:
  • Dehy and compressor station controls
  • Electronic flow meters (orifice and ultrasonic measurement) and related equipment
  • Pressure, flow, and temperature indicating equipment
  • Compressor building safety equipment (fire and gas sensing equipment)
  • Programmable logic computers
  • Gas chromatograph and moisture analyzing equipment
  • Remote valve controls and logic
  • Gas odorizing equipment
  • Uninterruptible power-supply systems
  • Satellite and cellular communications and networking
  • Emergency generator controls
  • Cathodic protection rectifier operations
  • Heat trace systems

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Possess and maintain a valid driver’s license
• Obtain all beginning Operator Qualification (OQ) tasks within 6 months
• Emergency Response base-level understanding
• High integrity and self-motivated
• Excellent vehicle driving record
• Basic computer skills
• Good communication, problem-solving, and physical perceptive skills
• Must be able to work and perform without close supervision
• Team player

Preferred: Experience in natural gas processing, compression, and/or pipeline experience, but will train as necessary. Level II requires 3 years of experience.

Skills

• Mechanical aptitude

Physical Demands

The physical demands and essential job functions below are those required to properly perform the integral functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Required to sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, reach, talk, hear, grasp, and carry objects.
• Must be able to talk or hear; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms extensively.
• Occasionally required to use sense of smell.
• Performs minor maintenance with medium to heavy lifting requirements:
  • Regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds
  • Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
  • Occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Must be able to perform on-the-spot decision-making in stressful situations and remain calm and focused during emergencies.

Working Conditions

• Works both in a business office setting and at a plant site.
• Exposed to outside weather conditions, including cold/hot, wet, and/or humid conditions, uneven or steep terrain, and may work near moving mechanical parts and/or machinery.
• Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles and vibration.
• Works near toxic or caustic chemicals and must be able to read and understand Material Data Safety Sheets.
• The noise level in the work environment may exceed 90 dB, requiring the use of hearing protection in certain areas.