Field Service Tech 1321

# Field Service Tech 1321

WTXW-Pecos - Midland, TX 79707## Description
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* Position Overview:

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

Job Duties:

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* • 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
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* Qualifications:

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* • 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 1⁄4”  
• 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
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* Physical Requirements:

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* • 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
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* Working Conditions:

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* • Subject to outdoor environment with adjusting temperatures and climate  
• Driving a truck traveling from location to location is extensive
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