Corrosion Technician Lead

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Summit Midstream is proudly committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

No Relocation assistance provided.

Summit Midstream will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. Any offer of employment is contingent upon the Company receiving satisfactory results from a pre‑employment drug screening, a criminal background check, and reference checks and your satisfaction of all other applicable fitness for duty requirements.

Responsibilities may include Department of Transportation (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). functions per PHMSA or FMSCA. Job duties also require the employee to be alert and respond immediately to dangerous or hazardous conditions, and where impaired performance, or failure to follow safety precautions, could result in serious injury or property damage. Maintain working knowledge of regulatory requirements, perform required tasks, and complete associated documentation (OSHA, DOT, EPA, etc.).

The primary role of the Corrosion Technician is to operate and maintain the cathodic protection (CP), coating, corrosion inhibition, and monitoring (i.e., external and internal) systems through planning and implementation of corrosion control for pipelines, terminals, and other facilities including assistance with design, installation, operation, and maintenance. A Corrosion Technician applies Summit's engineering standards, material and work specifications, corrosion control equipment and tools, corrosion control system operations, regulatory requirements, maintenance procedures and safe work practices.

• Plan and perform duties involved with testing, evaluation and installation of external and internal corrosion systems to control corrosion on assets
• Conduct scheduled cathodic protection surveys in compliance with Department of Transportation  192 & 195
• Test, adjust and maintain existing cathodic protection equipment and testing facilities
• Inspects and reads all rectifiers, anodes, foreign bonds and pipelines including casing test points as necessary
• Conducts interference tests that measure cathodic protection and other electrical effects
• Tracks and maintains all internal corrosion monitoring devices
• Maintains corrosion and corrosion protection records for reporting requirement
• Analyze equipment failures and participate in Root Cause Analysis evaluations
• As a member of safety-sensitive position, position requires employee to work weekends, on-call and holidays as needed
• Responsible for batch and continuous chemical treatments and injections
• Analyze and evaluate corrosion control data and develop action plans to assist in assuring development of cost effective solutions consistent with corporate philosophy
• Computerizes and trends corrosion data and reports results to Corrosion Engineering Manager and Operations Manager
• Monitors third party crossings and encroachments and works with encroaching parties
• Assist with designs, installations and maintaining corrosion control systems for all assigned Company assets
• Plan and perform duties involved with testing, evaluation and installation of external and internal corrosion systems to control corrosion on assets
• Review the following reports/data and provide corrosion related evaluation and follow-up recommendations and actions: failure analysis, external direct assessment (or subset), bacteria testing results, soil resistivity, Induced AC modeling, etc.
• Provide support and coordinate corrosion mitigation for gathering (gas and liquids), transmission and storage field assets (pipelines, vessels, storage well casings and process facilities) to include chemical inhibitor/biocide/scavenging (O2 and H2S) treatment, cathodic protection, down‑hole well logging (cathodic protection CP) and…