Pipeline Operator (Calumet, Kingfisher, Okarche, OK)

About the role

Your ideas have a place here—step into a role where your work directly drives solutions in a fast-evolving energy industry. At ONEOK, you’ll contribute to delivering energy products and services that power progress while gaining hands-on pipeline operator experience with a company that is leading in the industry.

Location

Calumet, Kingfisher, Okarche area, OK, or willing to relocate.

Responsibilities

• Perform pipeline operations and maintenance activities on systems including compressor stations, gas storages, dehydration facilities, pumping facilities, measurement facilities, and related equipment
• Startup and shutdown
• Pigging
• Collecting liquids
• Changing charts
• Gauging tanks
• Locating and marking lines
• Monitoring cathodic protection/basic pipe coatings
• Leakage survey/patrolling pipelines
• Blowing drips
• Perform and/or dispatch line locates
• Construction watch
• Monitor usage and/or replace lubricants, fluids, inhibitors, chemicals, etc., as needed to ensure safe and efficient operation of equipment
• Exchange information regarding pipeline operations, maintenance, measurement, and other activities with public/governmental officials, employees, contractors, customers, producers, and landowners
• Provide calculations, compile, and/or prepare information and reports including but not limited to:
  • Gas/liquid flow and quality
  • Maintenance and/or repair logs
  • Samples (gas/liquids)
  • Pipeline/corrosion activities
  • Construction inspection
  • Appropriate regulatory requirements
• Drive and ensure maintenance is completed on assigned company vehicles
• React immediately to emergency situations to prevent injury to self and others
• Perform DOT covered functions, including operations, maintenance, or emergency response on a pipeline
• Remain alert and respond immediately to dangerous or hazardous conditions

Requirements

• Experience operating and maintaining pipeline systems and related equipment utilized in natural gas and liquids gathering and transmission systems
• Experience in various field functions including measurement, cathodic protection, and compressor/pump station operations
• Experience in maintenance and the repair of equipment
• Experience, training and/or knowledge of:
  • Company and governmental operating/safety procedures and environmental regulations
  • Characteristics of natural gas and gas liquids
  • Pigging pipelines, blowing drips, gauging tanks, and collecting liquids
  • Construction methods
  • Patrolling pipelines, performing leakage surveys, and locating/marking lines
  • Working with valves and dehydration equipment, scrubbers, and separators
• Experience in use and function of applications such as: Microsoft Excel, Project, Access, Word, etc.
• Experience interacting, negotiating, advising and communicating effectively and in exchanging written and verbal information and instructions

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of cathodic protection/corrosion control activities
• Ability to:
  • Use tools and equipment including computers and related software
  • Establish, prioritize assignments and complete assignments in a timely manner with limited supervision
  • Use logic and reasoning to identify alternate solutions or approaches to a problem
  • Communicate thoughts, ideas, information, messages and other written information, which may contain technical material, in a logical, organized and coherent manner
  • Apply the use of formulas to estimate or calculate flow rates and volumes
  • Apply basic arithmetic to include addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division

Physical Demands

Strength Factor Rating: Heavy Work – Exerting 50 to 100 pounds of force occasionally and/or 25 to 50 pounds of force frequently and/or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

• Standing (Frequently)
• Walking (Frequently)
• Sitting (Occasionally)
• Lifting (Occasionally)
• Carrying (Occasionally)
• Pushing (Occasionally)
• Pulling (Occasionally)
• Climbing: Ladders, Stairs (Occasionally)
• Balancing (Occasionally)
• Stooping (Occasionally)
• Kneeling (Occasionally)
• Crouching (Occasionally)
• Crawling (Occasionally)
• Reaching (Constantly)
• Handling (Manual Dexterity) (Constantly)
• Fingering (Finger Dexterity) (Constantly)
• Feeling (Constantly)
• Talking (Frequently)
• Hearing (Constantly)
• Tasting/Smelling (Occasionally)
• Near Vision (Constantly)
• Far Vision (Constantly)
• Depth Perception (Constantly)
• Color Vision (Constantly)

Working Conditions

• Inside and outside environmental conditions
• Well lighted, climate controlled areas (Frequently)
• Outdoor weather conditions (Frequently)
• Wet or humid conditions (not weather related) (Frequently)
• Extreme cold (not weather related) (Frequently)
• Extreme heat (not weather related) (Frequently)
• Dust, fumes, gases (Frequently)
• Moving mechanical parts (Frequently)
• Potential electric shock (Frequently)
• Prolonged exposure to vibration (Frequently)
• High pitched noises/loud noises (Frequently)
• Unprotected heights (Frequently)
• Frequent repetitive motion (Constantly)
• CRT (Computer Monitor(s)) (Constantly)

Travel

• Up to 30% within assigned geographic region(s)
• Based on assigned tasks, employee may be assigned a company vehicle requiring the applicable driver’s license

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits
• 6% 401(k) match plus 4 quarterly contributions through the company’s profit sharing
• $100,000 in life insurance
• Annual bonuses for all employees
• Minimum of three weeks of paid time off that recognizes industry experience

Pay

Expected Salary Range: $74,000.00 – $110,000.00