Field Service Tech 1320

Position Overview:

Develops and maintains profitable relationships with natural gas producing customers within the defined geographic territory.
Responsibilities/Job Duties:

• Maximizes cost effective and safe customer runtime reliability (mechanical availability); 

• Installs, commissions, maintains, services, troubleshoots, and decommissions and removes Company rental fleet compressor packages in the assigned territory

• Ensures compressor package environmental regulation compliance

• Reports on new business opportunities with existing and potential customers

• Reports on the potential availability for hire of experienced field service personnel 

• Builds positive working relationships and trust with customer personnel by understanding their requirements and making appropriate recommendations

• Performs scheduled preventive maintenance and service on assigned high pressure gas lift skid mounted compressor packages within a defined territory

• Inspects compressors, control systems and engines, using micrometers, pressure gauges, electronic diagnostic equipment, and other tools to identify and correct potential problems before they occur

• Submits daily maintenance report data

• Complies with all Company, customer, and government regulatory agency safety, health, and environmental laws, rules, policies, and procedures

• Maintains the cleanliness of Company equipment and surrounding area

• Responds to and diagnoses reasons for engine, compressor and control system failures

• Performs or assists in field rebuilding or overhauling of engines, compressors, and controls

• Installs, commissions, and starts new units, including necessary inspections and testing

• Disconnects, de-commissions, and removes units no longer required by customers

• Orders, stores, and controls an inventory of frequently needed parts and tools to maximize timely response to customer issues while avoiding the cost of excessive inventory, shrinkage, or obsolescence

• Identifies recurring maintenance issues and equipment failures and reports on same to the technical and fabrication teams by electronic mail or telephone call

• Identifies needs for additional equipment with current and potential customers and reports these business development opportunities to the sales and marketing team

• Identifies experienced field service personnel who may be open to recruitment and reports on these individuals to management

• Adhere to safety requirements by wearing appropriate protective gear

• Ability to work independently with little or no direct supervision

• Performs other duties as assigned
  Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or equivalent

• Strong mechanical and electrical skills and knowledge

• Customer focused

• 6 months – 2 years of experience in maintaining natural gas compression equipment, including natural gas engines, compressors, control panels, skid wiring and conduit, end devices, tubing, vessels, and coolers

• Valid driver’s license with satisfactory driving record 

• Set of hand tools up to 1 ¼”

• Proficient English language skills (reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension)

• Computer skills, including ability to use Microsoft Office 

• Ability to pass drug screens and background checks

• Prefer associates degree or higher in related field

• Prefer bilingual in English/Spanish

• Prefer knowledge of proper purging and loading practices and procedures

• Prefer ability to interpret compressor performance runs, calculate engine horsepower and calculate gas volumes
  Physical Requirements:

• Ability to stand, sit and/or walk on a hard surface as well as safely bend, stoop, reach, climb steps, and use ladder for long periods of time 

• Must be able to walk, climb, crouch, kneel, crawl, balance, reach, feel and hold objects with hands

• Must be able to hear, speak, smell and taste

• Vision requirements include close, distance, color, peripheral, depth and the ability to adjust focus with or without corrective lenses

• Ability to lift up to 80 pounds

• Ability to communicate verbally using a telephone
  Working Conditions:   

• Subject to outdoor environment with adjusting temperatures and climate

• Driving a truck traveling from location to location is extensive