Measurement Technician

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Position Summary

This position is responsible for the inspection, calibration, and repair of instruments associated with measurement, control, and analysis of natural gas, LPG, and the other hydrocarbons that we handle. The Technician is responsible for maintaining system balances and customer relations.

Key Responsibilities

• Installs, operates, inspects, maintains, tests, and calibrates natural gas measurement equipment. Provides technical support for metering and regulation (compressor) stations in assigned geographic area.
• Monitors measurement system performance. Troubleshoots and performs root cause analysis on anomalies.
• Inspects, maintains, and performs repairs and preventative maintenance on measurement devices and equipment such as, but not limited, to flow computer, mass flow meters, turbine meters, Coriolis meters, gas chromatographs, sulfur analyzers, and other related devices.
• Installs
• Configures and programs telemetry units used in smart metering.
• Oversees meter proving's. Witnesses third-party meter calibrations.
• Maintains complete, accurate and regulatory-compliant documentation.

Education and Experience

• High school diploma or GED required
• Valid driver's license required
• Must be able to pass drug test and background check
• Must be able to work 12-hour shifts including nights, weekends, and holidays

Skills

• Calibration: Develops ability to perform calibration on instruments with accuracy and precision in accordance with established procedures. Aware of environmental factors such as temperature, vibration, noise affecting calibration.
• Data Quality: Develops understanding of criticality of data integrity to hydrocarbon measurement. Able to apply validation methods to ensure accuracy and precision of measurement data for operational use such as operations, gas accounting, custody transfer.
• Gas Measurement Fundamentals: Develops understanding and practical experience with gas measurement including conversions necessary to convert actual measured volumes into energy as well as adjustments for atmospheric pressure and compressibility. Develops understanding of causes of measurement uncertainty e.g., selection of appropriate metering device, metering device installation, proper meter operation, processing of metering information, maintenance of metering devices.
• Gas Measurement Industry Standards: Develops knowledge of and practical experience with industry standards for gas metrology from American Petroleum Institute (API), American Gas Association (AGA), GPA Midstream Association and related organizations.
• Industrial Instrumentation Fundamentals: Develops practical knowledge of instrumentation used in midstream industry to measure, monitor, or control temperature, level, pressure, flow. Includes, but is not limited to temperature sensor, pressure gauges, pressure transmitter, pressure switch, flow transmitter, temperature controllers.
• Safety: Applies in difficult or complex situations ability to recognize safety risks in operational activities and use appropriate measures to control and manage identified risks.
• Safety Awareness: Ability to recognize and identify potential hazards. Evaluates changes in work environment with respect to impact on safety of self and others. Understands potential threats.

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Location: Bloomfield, New Mexico

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Job Requisition ID: 00022837

Location Address: 111 Road 4990