Technician, Pipeline (French Lick Station)

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is one of the largest publicly traded partnerships and a leading North American provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals. Our services include: natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transportation and storage; NGL transportation, fractionation, storage and import and export terminals; crude oil gathering, transportation, storage and terminals; petrochemical and refined products transportation, storage and terminals; and a marine transportation business that operates primarily on the United States inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems. The partnership’s assets include approximately 50,000 miles of pipelines; 260 million barrels of storage capacity for NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals; and 14 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity.

The Pipeline Technician's primary focus will be to conduct Right-of-Way (ROW) inspections; however, will perform a variety of operational and maintenance functions and duties including  inspecting, troubleshooting, repairing, and replacing  equipment in, around and on Department of Transportation (DOT) regulated pipelines and at OSHA/PSM/DOT regulated facilities in order to maintain high levels of safe and productive equipment performance. 

 Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

• Maintenance of the pipeline right-of-way (install pipeline markers and conduct ROW inspections), locating, identification, and marking of pipelines in accordance with the company's One Call programs (including overseeing excavations and line crossings), along with maintenance on other equipment such as block valves, control valves, air compressors, valve actuators, etc, assisting with replacement of pumps, motors, valves, and other equipment as needed, including foundation work, initial alignment, testing, and startup. 

• Ability to interface with landowners as well as perform any other job duties, training or compliance requirements as directed by the Area Supervisor.

• Duties to include operation and maintenance of pump station, and all the associated equipment such as centrifugal pumps, motor operated valves, pressure switches, electric motors, transmitters, vibration switches, electronic controls and pressure regulators preferred.                                        

• Routine maintenance of centrifugal pumps and electric motors such as bearing and seal replacements, alignments, drain piping modifications, etc. preferred.

• Duties may also include product measurement (maintenance and operation of custody transfer measurement facilities and performance of product quality control tests), pigging (launch and receive cleaning pigs and assisting with launching and receiving of smart pigs)

• Must have the ability to understand and maintain compliance with all DOT guidelines pertaining to pipeline product transportation as well as maintain compliance with the company's and federal regulations/guidelines.

• Participate in training programs, DOT manual reviews and process safety management reviews and attend all safety meetings.

• Must have the ability to meet the requirements of the company's Operator Qualification program.  

The successful candidate will meet the following qualifications:  

• Must live or relocate to within 60 minutes of French Lick Station

• Must be willing to take callouts and work overtime. 

• Able to work independently as well as maintain and promote good working relationships within a team environment.

• Able to assume responsibility, be flexible, perform duties and handle multiple tasks under potentially stressful and/or hazardous conditions.

• Self-motivated individual; Accountable and self-driven to learn and to continuously develop and improve his/her skills through both formalized and on the job training. 

• Must be able to demonstrate sound judg