Position Overview:
Develops and maintains profitable relationships with natural gas producing customers within the defined geographic territory.
1 Position Available/ Permanent – Full Time
Location: Southeast Texas - Giddings Area
Responsibilities/ Job Duties:
- Maximizes cost effective and safe customer runtime reliability (mechanical availability);
- Installs, commissions, maintains, services, troubleshoots, and decommissions and removes Company rental fleet compressor packages in the assigned territory
- Ensures compressor package environmental regulation compliance
- Reports on new business opportunities with existing and potential customers
- Reports on the potential availability for hire of experienced field service personnel
- Builds positive working relationships and trust with customer personnel by understanding their requirements and making appropriate recommendations
- Performs scheduled preventive maintenance and service on assigned high pressure gas lift skid mounted compressor packages within a defined territory
- Inspects compressors, control systems and engines, using micrometers, pressure gauges, electronic diagnostic equipment, and other tools to identify and correct potential problems before they occur
- Submits daily maintenance report data
- Complies with all Company, customer, and government regulatory agency safety, health, and environmental laws, rules, policies, and procedures
- Maintains the cleanliness of Company equipment and surrounding area
- Responds to and diagnoses reasons for engine, compressor and control system failures
- Performs or assists in field rebuilding or overhauling of engines, compressors, and controls
- Installs, commissions, and starts new units, including necessary inspections and testing
- Disconnects, de-commissions, and removes units no longer required by customers
- Orders, stores, and controls an inventory of frequently needed parts and tools to maximize timely response to customer issues while avoiding the cost of excessive inventory, shrinkage, or obsolescence
- Identifies recurring maintenance issues and equipment failures and reports on same to the technical and fabrication teams by electronic mail or telephone call
- Identifies needs for additional equipment with current and potential customers and reports these business development opportunities to the sales and marketing team
- Identifies experienced field service personnel who may be open to recruitment and reports on these individuals to management
- Adhere to safety requirements by wearing appropriate protective gear
- Ability to work independently with little or no direct supervision
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Strong mechanical and electrical skills and knowledge
- Customer focused
- Required 2 years of experience in maintaining natural gas compression equipment, including natural gas engines, compressors, control panels, skid wiring and conduit, end devices, tubing, vessels, and coolers
- Valid driver’s license with satisfactory driving record
- Set of hand tools up to 1 ¼”
- Proficient English language skills (reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension)
- Computer skills, including ability to use Microsoft Office
- Ability to pass drug screens and background checks
- Prefer associates degree or higher in related field
- Prefer bilingual in English/Spanish
- Prefer knowledge of proper purging and loading practices and procedures
- Prefer ability to interpret compressor performance runs, calculate engine horsepower and calculate gas volumes
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to stand, sit and/or walk on a hard surface as well as safely bend, stoop, reach, climb steps, and use ladder for long periods of time
- Must be able to walk, climb, crouch, kneel, crawl, balance, reach, feel and hold objects with hands
- Must be able to hear, speak, smell and taste
- Vision requirements include close, distance, color, peripheral, depth and the ability to adjust focus with or without corrective lenses
- Ability to lift up to 80 pounds
- Ability to communicate verbally using a telephone
Working Conditions:
- Subject to outdoor environment with adjusting temperatures and climate
- Driving a truck traveling from location to location is extensive
