Gas Clearance Coordinator

Job Responsibilities

• Serves as single point-of-contact to write clearances for all planned work on the gas system, and some emergency clearances.
• Reviews every clearance to ensure necessary information is incorporated to isolate the pipeline/equipment in a manner that is safe for field employees, minimize impact to end use customers, and preserve maximum pipeline and storage capacity for use by transportation marketers and shippers.
• Provides an authorized clearance package to the clearance supervisor to be used to perform the work.
• Schedules all work to minimize impact to end use customers and transportation revenue.
• Adheres to agreed schedule timelines and outage duration to reduce conflicts with maintenance and construction manpower/equipment constraints.
• Schedules all work in coordination with the Facilities Outage Group (FOG) and Long-Term Outage Coordinator.
• Provides written and verbal communications during clearance review process to project team, GPOM, planning and engineering staff, account services reps, and marketing product managers.
• Prepares a clearance package to include items such as cover letter, maps, modeling information, customer impact information etc. to be utilized by the control room operators.

Qualifications

• Minimum: High School or GED-General Educational Development-GED Diploma
• 3 years of experience in any of the following gas activities: gas maintenance/construction, gas planning, clearance preparation, clearance supervisor; gas maintenance engineering (station/pipeline, division); gas mapping/estimating; operations specialist, and/or project management.
• Attendance at meetings both in-person at field facilities and via conference call
• Up to 15% travel to attend meetings.
• Desired: Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of and/or an ability or willingness to learn the gas system clearance process; gas transmission, collection, and storage system operations; gas mapping and GIS systems
• Must have or have the ability to obtain a strong understanding of maintenance and construction practices for various gas facilities including, but not limited to regulation and over-pressure protection devices, compressors, gas processing, pipeline welding practices, and In Line Inspection operations
• Strong knowledge of personal computing standard software such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SAP and SharePoint
• Must also possess strong organizational, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and an ability to work with many individuals in gas operations, gas maintenance & construction, gas planning & engineering, marketing & account services
• Clearance Writing and execution experience