Technician, Reliability (Skellytown, Aledo, Brenham)
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is one of the largest publicly traded partnerships and a leading North American provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals. Our services include natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transportation and storage; NGL transportation, fractionation, storage and import and export terminals; crude oil gathering, transportation, storage and terminals; petrochemical and refined products transportation, storage and terminals; and a marine transportation business that operates primarily on the United States inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems.
About the role
The Reliability Technician performs analysis, reporting, and interpretation of gas compressor, turbine engine, NGL pumps, and other process equipment at gas cryogenic treating and natural gas transmission & compression pipeline facilities.
Responsibilities
- Perform quarterly vibration routes on reciprocating & centrifugal equipment, pumps, compressors, motors, fans, etc.
- Provide technical support and direction identifying machinery performance issues.
- Provide analyst data review of new equipment during start-up and troubleshooting.
- Assist root cause failure analysis on failed equipment.
- Provide findings reports during predictive maintenance routes.
- Assist field maintenance and operations teams with preventative maintenance best practices and procedures.
- Assist Pipeline Techs with turbine, turbine controls, and pump troubleshooting.
- Perform laser shaft alignment on pumps and motors.
Requirements
- Minimum of a high school diploma or G.E.D. equivalent.
- Proven knowledge in all mechanical process and prime moving machinery including reciprocating compression, performance of gas engines, reciprocating compressors, centrifugal compressors, gas turbines, and vertical and horizontal NGL/Crude/hydrocarbon process pumps.
- Work experience in using portable SKF vibration data collectors (or equivalent).
- Ability to perform basic mathematical calculations, such as percentages, ratios, and proportions.
- Basic computer skills such as creating corrective maintenance work requests.
- Ability to assume responsibility, be flexible, and handle multiple tasks under potentially stressful and/or hazardous conditions.
- Ability to effectively communicate, both verbally and in writing, with other individuals, teams, customers, and stakeholders at various levels of the organization.
- Ability to modify communication style to influence, persuade, negotiate, and engage all parties according to the audience and circumstance.
- Take initiative and be proactive in addressing issues; quickly and efficiently complete tasks.
- Demonstrate conscientiousness, dependability, and commitment to the role, team, and company.
- Works indoors and outdoors in and around industrial and electrical equipment, in temperature extremes due to weather conditions and operating equipment.
- Uses physical force to lift, push, pull, and hold equipment and tools; climbs and works at various heights and may work in a standing, sitting, lying down, crouched, or kneeling position.
- Routinely reacts to visual, aural, and other signals, including alarms and instructions, and is required to visually inspect work.
- Must be able to regularly bend, stoop, move from ground level to higher levels, raise/lift from ground level and lift up to 50 lbs., manually transport a load up to 75 lbs., apply up to 100-foot pounds of torque.
- Must have ability to get in and out of vehicles regularly and ride over rough roads.
- Must wear special safety equipment while working and must be able to lift and put on emergency breathing apparatus and/or protective equipment.
- Ability to take call-outs and work overtime.
- Must live within 1 hour of reporting location (Skellytown, Aledo, Brenham, or Hobbs).
- Ability to travel domestically, up to 75% of the time.
Schedule
Day shift. Ability to take call-outs and work overtime as required.