Operations System Controller

Marathon Petroleum Corporation•San Antonio, TX

About The Position

At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment. POSITION SUMMARY: Responsible for the safe and efficient operation of the monitoring of gas inlet and residue nominations by using knowledge of the system to keep customers on nominations while also keeping field system pressures optimal by directing plants on how to allocate flows.

Requirements

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
Prior Board Operator experience required, prefer a minimum of 5 years
Operation & Control: Develops understanding of how process controls and automation are used to operate equipment in process plant.
Operation Monitoring: Develops ability to watch gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
Systems Analysis: Develops ability to determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Communication: Develops ability to communicate effectively verbally and non-verbally; writes as appropriate for audience needs and conveys information effectively and professionally to others.
Safety: Applies in difficult or complex situation’s 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 created by deviation from safety procedures and improper use of tools and equipment. Uses personal protection equipment. Uses tools and equipment in compliance with manuals and training. Calls attention to potential and actual hazardous conditions as they arise.
Mechanical Aptitude: Develops ability to understand and apply mechanical concepts and principles such as, but not limited to, sounds, heat conduction, velocity, gravity, friction, pressure, kinetic and potential energy, etc. when working or using mechanical machinery.
Attention to Detail: Develops ability to be careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
Computer & Digital Literacy: Develops ability to access, manage, understand, integrate, communicate, evaluate, and create information safely and appropriately through digital devices and networked technologies.
Quality Control Analysis: Develops ability to conduct tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.

Responsibilities

Manage inlet curtailment communication process during upset events or when plants are at reduced capacities.
Improve customer satisfaction and confidence by always having a knowledgeable and up to speed point of contact on a 24/7 basis.
Primary point of contact for customers, Business Development, Marketing, Measurement, Pipeline, and Reliability while also bridging the gap between these channels and disseminating the information to the plant supervisors.
Daily safe operations of the field gas compression, inlet gas pipelines monitoring equipment and processing facilities, from the remote-control room.
Streamline communication process – understanding of appropriate message, more consistent messaging, building trust, etc.
Improve system operations and communication after hours and weekends (single point of contact requested by Business Development/Scheduling)E Enhanced continuous monitoring of producer incoming gas quality (implementing alarming, proactive action, proceduralize) on a 24/7 basis.
Assist operators in optimizing plant efficiency and recoveries.
Assist in managing producer imbalances and residue pipeline OBA’s (Operational Balance Agreements) on a 24/7 basis.
Assist plants with troubleshooting, recover from process upsets and/or shutdowns either over the phone, or monitoring/running the plant remotely.
Train and educate operators on responses to abnormal conditions.
Create and send daily and monthly reports, curtailment notices, PLA events, Collect and true-up reliability data for daily/monthly/quarterly reports.
Support engineering team and project teams with process parameters and current conditions.
Able to support commissioning efforts involving loop checks, valve tuning, etc. for new plants and during planned outages.
Covers shifts at the plants whenever requested.
Able to assume plant-specific Board Operator duties remotely during times of need (employee illness/call-offs, abnormal operating conditions, emergency support).