Specialist, Natural Gas Leak Survey

The purpose of this position is to develop, manage, and coordinate field-facing, asset inspection, data collection and data maintenance initiatives for Southern Company Gas (Gas); to oversee data transfer activities within Gas asset inspection and asset management applications. This role provides field data coordinator support across a variety of programs – including but not limited to Asset Protection, GIS, Legacy Cross Bore, Leak Survey and Emissions Survey. This role also provides strategic and technical direction in the development/maintenance of field asset data collection applications to support GIS, Field Operations, Compliance, Sustainability, R&D, and other stakeholders.

MAJOR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Coordinates and supports the maintenance of asset field inspection data collection applications
• Importing data into Maximo
• Provides content and document management via various applications
• Serves as Subject Matter Expert on asset field inspection data collection requests and outlines requirements
• Assists with the execution of field application testing and the documentation of defects
• Completes post review and editing of field collected data as needed
• Supports the development of IT systems and applications related to asset data, asset performance, compliance assurance, and/or operational efficiency 
• Maintains PHMSA regulation knowledge and experience including 49 CFR Part 192
• Demonstrates ability to enhance program management functions by pursuing opportunities for improvement of existing methods, tools, or workflows
• Audits the performance of leak survey (in accordance with the Leak Survey Manual)
• Develop queries and reports from mobile advanced leak detection (MALD) vendor provided, cloud-based customer platforms
• Operates and maintains GPS hardware, software, and equipment 
• Ensures data transfers into the gas leak survey application are established and functional
• Supports Program Managers with field inspection data collection, management, reporting, and visualization
• Analyzes current business processes and system data to recommend best practice field inspection data collection solutions
• Interfaces with the Technology Organization and vendors for the MALD technologies to drive improvements in the collection, reporting, and data analytics solutions for MALD survey data
• Develops and maintains dashboards, forms, and sites in executing QA/QC of the various field inspection and maintenance programs 
• Provides subject matter expertise on GAS geospatial field inspection data collection issues (GLS enhancements, GIS and other technology strategy, process improvements, etc.)
• Builds and maintains cohesive working relationships with internal and external, application customers

 

JOB REQUIREMENTS: 

Education and Experience        

 Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Geography/GIS, Computer Science, Business Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline or 5 plus years of relevant work experience in data analytics and visualization with data quality control/assurance

Preferred:

• 2 plus years pipeline or local distribution company experience
• Master’s degree in Geography, Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field.
• Natural Gas experience

Equivalent combination of education and relevant experience will be considered

 

 

Related Work Experience:

 Required: 

• Working knowledge of some combination of the following applications:  ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcSDE, GLS, Maximo, Smartsheet, Excel and Power BI
• Effective written/verbal communication
• Work with existing job aids and standards and assist development and roll-out of new procedures as needed
• Proven organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Assist in the development and deployment of field data collection systems including Esri mobile applications, pending Maximo program module releases, and/or leak survey applications
• Experience with field GPS, leak survey, emissions survey, and cross bore data collection activities
• Experience with content and document management applications with integrations into workflow

 

Specific Skills & Knowledge:

Required:

• Geoprocessing and spatial analysis skills
• Esri ArcGIS Online – intermediate proficiency
• MS Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) – advanced proficiency
• Maximo – intermediate proficiency 
• Click mobile application – basic understanding
• SQL RDBMS – intermediate proficiency
• SmartSheets – intermediate proficiency
• Microsoft PowerBI – interme