Stabilizer Multi-Skilled Operator III

Danos•Kenedy, TX

About The Position

The Stabilizer Multi-Skilled Operator is responsible for the safe and efficient operation of condensate stabilizing facilities and associated production equipment. The position monitors and operates stabilizers, compressors, pumps, boilers, LACT units, tanks, and other production equipment, troubleshoots operational issues, and optimizes production. The role also performs condensate and NGL loading and sampling, production reporting, minor equipment repairs, and routine inspections while following HSE, OSHA, PSM, environmental, and company procedures. The position works rotating twelve-hour shifts, including a rotation of seven days on both day and night shifts. Overtime may occasionally be required during facility turnarounds, facility upsets, start-ups, or when workload demands it.

Requirements

5–7 years of experience in the oil and gas industry.
Associate degree, trade certification, or higher in Production Technology, Process Technology, or a related technical field, or foreign equivalent.
Intermediate understanding of fractionation principles and practices.
Basic understanding of gas and liquid measurement, product drying, and sweetening.
Basic knowledge of plant mechanics and instrumentation.
Ability to use a laptop and applicable software programs.
Ability to prepare accurate and legible reports.
Ability to react to visual and aural signals, alarms, and instructions.
Ability to work in temperature extremes or adverse weather conditions.
Ability to wear appropriate special safety equipment.
Ability to climb heights up to 30 feet to gauge tanks, walk, bend, stoop, lift, push, and pull, and use hand tools to make minor repairs.

Responsibilities

Follow all Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Process Safety Management (PSM), environmental, and company rules and procedures.
Ensure the safe and efficient operation of condensate stabilizing facilities.
Monitor stabilizers and associated equipment to ensure efficient operation.
Load and unload condensate and natural gas liquid (NGL) trucks and conduct condensate, caustic, and amine sampling.
Operate oil stabilizer trains, compressors, vapor compressor units, fuel-fired boilers, condensate unloading and transfer pumps, positive displacement pipeline pumps, and LACT units.
Collaborate with Operations and I&E to optimize plant instrumentation controls.
Troubleshoot operational problems and perform housekeeping and record keeping.
Build teamwork with groups within Delaware Operations and third-party truck-hauling partners.
Inspect tanks and attached piping for leaks or unusual conditions and take corrective action.
Access remote locations to check rotating equipment and separation equipment operating levels, pressures, and flow; adjust automatic and manual controls.
Gauge tanks for crude oil and water sales or transfers.
Use electronic remote well supervision to optimize production and reduce safety and environmental impacts.
Enter daily volumes, well tests, downtime, and injection information into a computer database.
Monitor daily production inputs in electronic data-capturing software and compare input and output data for correctness.
Report production losses, causes, and resolutions in a computer database.
Monitor and optimize production and costs within the area of control for new wells and facilities.
Perform minor hands-on production equipment repairs.
Maintain chemical injection rates as necessary.
Enter compressor downtime reports into a computer database and monitor and optimize compressor runtime and costs within the area of control.
Complete regulatory work, including agency testing requirements, changes of status, and tank and meter numbering for new facilities.