Plant Controls Specialist

Atmos Energy Corporation; Ponder (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement savings plan – company with

Job summary

Atmos Energy Corporation seeks a skilled technician to support the installation, operation, and maintenance of control, measurement, and SCADA equipment associated with engines, compressors, auxiliary equipment, and well facilities.

The role involves testing and calibration of PLC/DCS systems, reviewing performance, coordinating maintenance activities, ensuring code compliance, and maintaining records to meet regulatory requirements. Field work and safety screenings apply.

Qualifications

• Requires strong communication with internal/external customers
• Requires ability to apply research methods and advanced math/statistics
• Basic computer skills to use software for documents, reports, and graphics

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support for installation, operation, and maintenance of control, measurement, and SCADA equipment for engines, compressors, and well facilities
• Test, calibrate, and maintain engine and compressor control equipment including PLCs and DCS systems
• Test, calibrate, and maintain auxiliary equipment, gas conditioning, well, and related control equipment
• Review control and SCADA information to plan required operation and maintenance activities
• Review facility performance and implement maintenance or modifications to improve efficiency and control capabilities
• Perform code compliance activities related to plant facilities
• Perform maintenance activities related to plant facilities
• Maintain accurate records to demonstrate regulatory compliance
• Support timely response to system emergencies
• Collaborate with supervision, gas control, and engineering teams to define control and SCADA requirements for new installations

Skills

Communication skills

Numeric skills

Computer skills

Education

Associate degree in engineering technology, electronics or computer science

GED or high school diploma with 3+ years related experience

Tools

PLC

DCS

Job description

At Atmos Energy, we enjoy an employee-focused culture with rewarding work, competitive pay, work-life balance, inclusion and diversity, and excellent benefits.

Benefit eligibility is on the first day of employment and include:

Benefits Provided at No Cost to you:

• Retirement Savings Plan (Matching and Fixed Annual Company Contribution)


• Basic Life Insurance


• Business Travel Accident Insurance


• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Plans


• Holidays and Paid Time Off


• Parental Leave


• Health Education and Improvement Programs


• Employer Contribution to Health Savings Account (when enrolled in High-Deductible Health Plan)


• Employee Assistance Program


• Employee Education Assistance Program (Tuition Reimbursement)


• Pregnancy and Parenting Support


• Caregiver Support Program


• Identity Theft Protection

Benefits You Help Pay for (voluntary):

• Retirement Savings Plan – Individual Contribution (including Roth option)


• Investment Advice and Management


• Medical Insurance and Prescription Drug Coverage


• Dental Insurance


• Vision Insurance


• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)


• Health Savings Account (HSA)


• Telemedicine


• Supplemental Term Life Insurance


• Employee/Dependent Life Insurance


• Employee/Dependent Accidental Death-Dismemberment Insurance

Top Employer Recognitions America’s Best Employers – Forbes Magazine The 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in America - Forbes Magazine Top Places to Work - Dallas Morning News Best Places to Work - Mississippi Business Journal Best Place to Learn - Dallas Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)

THIS JOB DESCRIPTION DOES NOT ATTEMPT TO LIST ALL OF THE DUTIES THAT ARE OR MAY BE PERFORMED IN THIS POSITION

Primary Duties

1. 1. Provide technical support for the installation, operation, and maintenance of control, measurement, and SCADA equipment related to engines, compressors, auxiliary equipment, and well facilities.


2. 2. Testing, calibrating, and maintaining engine and compressor control equipment including associated Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and Distributed Control (DCS) systems.


3. 3. Testing, calibrating, and maintaining auxiliary equipment, gas conditioning, well, and other associated control equipment.


4. 4. Reviewing control, measurement, and SCADA information within assigned area and scheduling required operation and maintenance activities to be performed in order to increase accuracy and integrity.


5. 5. Reviewing performance of facilities and implementing required maintenance or modifications needed to improve efficiency as well as monitoring and control capabilities.


6. 6. Performing required code compliance activities related to plant facilities.


7. 7. Performing required code compliance activities, measurement testing, calibration, and routine maintenance activities related to plant facilities.


8. 8. Maintaining accurate records to demonstrate compliance with Company and regulatory requirements.


9. 9. Performing activities to assure and support responsiveness to all system emergencies.


10. 10. Interfacing with supervision, work group, the appropriate gas control and engineering organizations to define and recommend control, measurement, & SCADA requirements for new installations.

Minimum Requirements

Educational/Experience Level

1. 1. Associates degree in engineering technology, electronics or computer science or a related field and two years related experience in operations, maintenance and troubleshooting gas pipeline facilities; or


2. 2. A general educational knowledge acquired through a high school diploma or a General Equivalency Diploma (GED) and three years related experience in operations, maintenance and troubleshooting gas pipeline facilities.

Communication Skills Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.

Numeric Skills Requires the ability to apply research methods, and/or advanced statistical and mathematics.

Computer Skills Requires basic computer skills in order to utilize various software applications for developing documents, reports and graphics.

Physical Demands

1. 1. Ability to generate 125-foot pounds of force, pushing and pulling, at a contact point of 70 inches. (Ex: operating valves)


2. 2. Ability to generate 105-foot pounds of vertical, downward force, at a contact point of 70 inches. (Ex: operating valves)


3. 3. Ability to lift and carry 38 pounds. (Ex: lifting and carrying materials or buckets)


4. 4. Ability to ascend/descend 30 rungs on a ladder.


5. 5. Ability to bend, stoop, squat, kneel, and/or crouch.


6. 6. Ability to walk a distance of 500 feet.


7. 7. Requires the acute sense of sight and hearing (corrected or uncorrected) and strong sense of smell.

Work Conditions

Works in a field environment. Requires occasionally performing activities including, but not limited to, bending, stooping, grasping, reaching, twisting, turning and/or lifting.

Other Requirements

As a Safety-Sensitive position, pre and post-employment screenings, including but not limited to drug testing as outlined by the Department of Transportation (DOT) and Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), and motor vehicle record (MVR) background checks are required.

Atmos Energy Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Job Family

Storage and Compression Atmos Energy Corporation, a natural gas-only distributor, is an S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas. We safely deliver reliable, affordable, efficient and abundant natural gas to more than 3 million distribution customers in over 1,400 communities across eight states located primarily in the South. As part of our vision to be the safest provider of natural gas services, we are modernizing our business and infrastructure while continuing to invest in safety, innovation, environmental sustainability and our communities. Atmos Energy manages proprietary pipeline and storage assets, including one of the largest intrastate natural gas pipeline systems in Texas.