Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Gauges and records tanks, vessels and gas meters.
• Opens and closes valves, tank hatches and manways.
• Inspects equipment for safety problems, leaks, or wear and tear, and makes or recommends appropriate repairs.
• Procures necessary materials and supplies to complete daily tasks.
• Read and operate HIM screens and/or local & automatic gauges, valves and process equipment to determine oil, gas and water flow rates of all process’s: including but not limited to : Wells, tanks, vessels, gas lift and chemicals systems.
• Operates pumps, Test Separators, Oil and water vessels, reboilers and all other process equipment and components.
• Turns bleeder valves to obtain oil separator, processing tanks, chemical, gas & water samples as required.
• Retrieves and performs required tests for quality and integrity on product samples.
• Maintains logs of meter readings, test results, and adjustments made.
• Completes & records all assigned daily process, safety critical and regulatory readings) and reports all anomalies by deadlines specified.
• Completes all required daily & monthly record reports & Operator assigned PM’s: including, but not limited to, Operator PM’s, Spill/Sheen/Tank Inspection Reports, and Daily Pipeline Surveillance Reports,” and reports results to designated office before deadline.
• Completes other daily records, including, “Compressor/Dehy/Flare Reports,” “Spill/Sheen/Tank Inspection Reports,” and “Daily Pipeline Surveillance Reports,” and reports results to designated office at the end of each month.
• Implements company’s “Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasures Plan” (SPCC), as needed.
• Reports leaks or defective valves to supervisor.
• Tightens connections with wrenches, and greases and oils valves using grease gun and oilcan.
• Inspects pipelines, valves, and flanges to detect malfunctions, such as loose connections and leaks.
• Clamps seals around valves to secure tanks.
• Records meter and pressure readings on all assigned vessels, tanks and wells.
• Records readings and test results.
• Gauges tank containing petroleum and natural gas byproducts, such as condensate, oil, saltwater, or natural gas as assigned.
• Shuts down equipment, following supervisor’s instructions, in case of an emergency.
• Monitors alarms and responds to alarms/emergency’s when on shift.
• Adheres to the company’s values – integrity, ownership, urgency, alignment and innovation.
• Supports company vision and mission.
• Adheres to established work schedule, attendance standards and is punctual to work and meetings.
• Ability to support and work well within a team concept
• Willingness to take direction from front line supervision

Other Job Responsibilities:

• Ability to be available 24 hours per day (on call for questions, emergencies, etc.).
• Maintains employee confidence and protects company assets, including intellectual property, by keeping information confidential.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Participates on emergency response team for location.

Qualifications:

• Two (2) years minimum oilfield Operator experience.
• Ability to work a fourteen (14) day on and fourteen (14) day off 12 hour shift work schedule.
• Requires less supervision in the performance of routine duties.
• Demonstrates increasing degrees of understanding how the various parts of the oil/gas facility/plant work together (from the wells through the production facilities to the oil and gas sales lines).
• Demonstrates an increased ability to work unsupervised, act upon an acquired knowledge of how the facilities function, anticipates and corrects problems before they occur or before other parts of the facility are affected.
• Demonstrates the ability to routinely operate the facility unsupervised, while maintaining the facility in a safe, environmentally sound condition and maintaining neat and accurate records of the operations.
• Demonstrates the ability to direct the work of and train other employees of lower rank and/or experience.
• Demonstrates the ability and willingness to remain aware of and direct the whole scope of simultaneous activities at the job site on a routine basis.
• Demonstrates the ability to recognize when non-standard or non-routine conditions exist at the facility, notify supervisory staff, and offer recommendations for solutions to the problem.
• Basic mathematic and mechanical skills.
• Basic computer skills.
• Ability to work in arctic conditions.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, supervisors, other departments, officials, and the public.
• Ability to consider safety in all decisions.

Education Requirements:

• Graduation from a high school or GED equivalent or any equivalent combination of education and experience demonstrating sufficient knowledge, ability and skill to handle the duties and responsibilities of the position.

Certifications, Licenses, Registrations:

• None.