Plant Controls Specialist

Atmos Energy Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Atmos Energy Corporation seeks a technically skilled professional to provide installation, operation, and maintenance support for control, measurement, and SCADA systems related to engines, compressors, and well facilities.

Responsibilities include testing and calibrating PLC/DCS equipment, reviewing system data, coordinating maintenance activities, and ensuring compliance with company and regulatory requirements in a field environment.

Qualifications

• Requires ability to communicate with internal and external customers.
• Requires ability to apply research methods and advanced statistics/mathematics.
• Requires basic computer skills to utilize software applications for reports and graphics.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support for installation, operation, and maintenance of control, measurement, and SCADA equipment.
• Test, calibrate, and maintain engine and compressor control equipment including PLCs and DCS systems.
• Test, calibrate, and maintain auxiliary equipment, gas conditioning, well, and other control equipment.
• Review control, measurement, and SCADA information and schedule maintenance to improve accuracy and integrity.
• Review facility performance and implement maintenance or modifications to improve efficiency and control capabilities.
• Perform required code compliance activities related to plant facilities.
• Maintain records to demonstrate compliance with company and regulatory requirements.
• Support responsiveness to system emergencies.

Skills

Communication skills

Numeric skills

Computer skills

Education

Associate degree in engineering technology/electronics/computer science

High school diploma or GED plus 3 years related experience

Job description

Primary Duties

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. Testing, calibrating, and maintaining engine and compressor control equipment including associated Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and Distributed Control (DCS) systems.
3. Testing, calibrating, and maintaining auxiliary equipment, gas conditioning, well, and other associated control equipment.
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. Reviewing performance of facilities and implementing required maintenance or modifications needed to improve efficiency as well as monitoring and control capabilities.
6. Performing required code compliance activities related to plant facilities.
7. Performing required code compliance activities, measurement testing, calibration, and routine maintenance activities related to plant facilities.
8. Maintaining accurate records to demonstrate compliance with Company and regulatory requirements.
9. Performing activities to assure and support responsiveness to all system emergencies.
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

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. 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. Ability to generate 125-foot pounds of force, pushing and pulling, at a contact point of 70 inches. (Ex: operating valves)
2. Ability to generate 105-foot pounds of vertical, downward force, at a contact point of 70 inches. (Ex: operating valves)
3. Ability to lift and carry 38 pounds. (Ex: lifting and carrying materials or buckets)
4. Ability to ascend/descend 30 rungs on a ladder.
5. Ability to bend, stoop, squat, kneel, and/or crouch.
6. Ability to walk a distance of 500 feet.
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

About Atmos Energy Corporation

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.