Plant Operator - Senior

Plant Operator

ONEOK, a Fortune 500 company, is seeking a highly skilled and safety-focused Plant Operator to support the operation and maintenance of our natural gas liquids processing facilities. In this advanced-level role, you will work with minimal supervision to operate and monitor critical plant equipment, ensuring safe, efficient, and reliable performance across all systems.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain processing plant equipment including, but not limited to: compressors, motors, engines, cooling equipment, auxiliary units, pumps, turbines, treating systems, DCS/Control Board
• Monitor and control pressures, temperatures, flow rates and reflux rates
• Start, stop, and operate equipment
• Prepare equipment for maintenance activities including permitting, lock out tag out, decommissioning
• Assist mechanics and others in performing repairs to compressors, engines, turbines, auxiliary equipment, pumps, process controls and related equipment
• Provide training to less experience operators
• Identify and report any safety and/or environmental concerns
• Compile and/or maintain information such as time sheets, work logs, safety/environmental forms, and equipment maintenance and repair records
• Drive and ensure maintenance is complete on company vehicles

Education

• None Required.

Work Experience

• Experience with and thorough knowledge of compressor station, storage field, gathering field, and/or processing plant operations
• Experience and training pertaining to gas and liquid processing fundamentals, applicable company and governmental operating practices and procedures, safe handling of flammable gases, liquids, and high-pressure systems
• Experience reading and interpreting drawings, diagrams, work logs, dials, gauges, charts, procedures, and operational and repair manuals
• Experience maintaining and preparing information such as safety/environmental reports, work logs, maintenance/repair logs, and time sheets
• Experience interacting and communicating effectively

Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to analyze, adjust, and perform minor repairs on compressor engines, process facilities and related equipment
• Ability to apply addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
• Knowledge of computers. Demonstrated ability to access and/or perform basic computer functions utilizing company software applications
• Ability to communicate and/or exchange information and instructions

Licenses and Certifications

• None required

Strength Factor Rating
- Physical Demands/Requirements

• Heavy Work
  - Exerting 50 to 100 pounds of force occasionally and/or 25 to 50 pounds of force frequently and/or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Medium Work.

Strength Factor Description
- Physical Demands/Requirements

• Standing:
  Remaining on one's feet in an upright position at a work station without moving about (Frequently)
• Walking:
  Moving about on foot (Frequently)
• Sitting:
  Remaining in a seated position (Occasionally)
• Lifting:
  Raising or lowering an object from one level to another (includes upward pulling) (Occasionally)
• Carrying:
  Transporting an object, usually holding it in the hands or arms, or on the shoulder (Occasionally)
• Pushing:
  Exerting force upon an object so that the object moves away from the force (Occasionally)
• Pulling:
  Exerting force upon an object so that the object moves toward the force (includes jerking) (Occasionally)
• Climbing:
  Ladders, Stairs (Occasionally)
• Balancing:
  Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling (Occasionally)
• Stooping:
  Bending the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist (Occasionally)
• Kneeling:
  Bending the legs at the knees to come to rest on the knee or knees (Occasionally)
• Crouching:
  Bending the body downward and forward by bending the legs and spine (Occasionally)
• Crawling:
  Moving about on the hands and arms in any direction (Occasionally)
• Reaching:
  Extending hands and arms in any direction (Constantly)
• Handling:
  Seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise working with the hand or hands (Manual Dexterity) (Constantly)
• Fingering:
  Picking, pinching or otherwise working with the fingers primarily (Finger Dexterity) (Constantly)
• Feeling:
  Perceiving such attributes of objects/materials as size, shape, temperature, texture, movement or pulsation by receptors in the skin, particularly those of the finger tips (Constantly)
• Talking:
  Expressing or exchanging ideas/information by means of the spoken word (Frequently)
• Hearing:
  Perceiving the nature of sound by the ear (Frequently)
• Tasting/Smelling: (Constantly)
• Near Vision:
  Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less (Constantly)
• Far Vision:
  Clarity of vision at 20 feet for more (Constantly)
• Depth Perception:
  Three-dimensional vision; ability to judge distances and spatial relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are (Constantly)
• Vision:
  Color
  - The ability to identify and distinguish colors (Constantly)

Working Conditions/Environment

• Employee is subject to inside and outside…