Electrical Engineer Technician

Position Description

Kinder Morgan, Inc. is one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in North America. We own an interest in or operate approximately 84,000 miles of pipelines and 157 terminals. Our pipelines transport natural gas, refined petroleum products, crude oil, condensate, CO2 and other products, and our terminals trans load and store liquid commodities including petroleum products, ethanol and chemicals, and bulk products, including petroleum coke, metals and ores.

This position is responsible for:

• Provide technical electrical support the CO2 business unit’s SACROC operational assets
• Lead an electrical motor testing reliability program.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Demonstrate Safe Behavior
• Ensure proactive, ongoing, high quality customer service is provided to the supported assets
• Technical electrical support to drive reliability and efficiency to asset’s electrical equipment.
• Measure progress, evaluate performance and provide clear reporting against established milestones.
• Provide corrective actions to resolve operational problems and work with location personnel to resolve issues.
• Monitor reliability of equipment and participate in various regular reliability meetings.
• Lead/assist in electrical equipment root cause failure analysis and in the development of standard practices and procedures.
• Assist with start-up and commissioning of new and existing facility equipment (as needed).
• Plant/asset maintenance & outage planning.
• Provide recommendations for equipment selection in new and existing systems
• Analyze and provide recommendations based on electrical equipment testing reports
• Support operations to manage contract electrical equipment testing.
• Analyze, track and trend electrical testing data and make predictions/recommendations based on this data.
• Manage motor testing data
• Technical electrical support on operational issues, i.e. trouble shooting equipment (sometimes off normal work hours)
• SEL Relay Programming review and analysis
• Working with Houston electrical & power engineering team to provide field verification support.

Position Requirements

Position Requirements

Education: Associates degree – electrical based preferred. E&I Plant or Oil and Gas experience in lieu of degree may be considered

Experience / specific knowledge:

• Experience with motor testing equipment or programs.
• Operational experience in one or more of the following:

a) 138KV substations and distribution

b) Induction and synchronous motors electrical protection (medium voltage and large horsepower 4000+)

c) Oil & gas production facilities

d) Production field/plant operations

e) Design or configuration or operation of motor switchgear, starters, or protection relays

f) SKM and ETAP Power Tools software.

Certifications, licenses, registrations:

• Valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record.

Competencies, skills, and abilities:

• Proactive decision making, strong work ethic, keen sense of requirements to achieve success.
• High competency in leading safety and operational excellence.
• Effective leadership in teaching and executing corporate values and philosophies.
• Deep understanding of individual and team customer service activities.
• Effective leadership, coaching and teambuilding skills.
• High competency in communicating project status, opportunities and risks.
• Ability to initiate, nurture and lead a questioning culture allowing new ideas and methods to be considered.
• Goal orientated with a focus on self-motivation and independent work scheduling.
• Proven analytical and trouble shooting skills on electrical equipment.
• Must possess good verbal and written communication skills.
• Job level and compensation commensurate with experience and skill sets.
• Must be able to work within a team, adhere to required work schedules, focus attention on details, and take on additional job responsibilities as needed to serve customer needs.

Physical demands:

• Ability to hear communications from others and give input/instructions orally
• Ability to see in order to observe employees, operations, processes, equipment and facilities.

Working conditions:

• Field, plant and office environment.
• Working after hours, nights, weekends, holidays and on-call as needed
• Occasional work in adverse weather conditions

Supervisory responsibility:

• N/A

Kinder Morgan Offers:

• Competitive Wages
• 401(k) Savings Plan (with Company Contribution)

• KM contributes 5% of your eligible compensation each pay period to your Savings account. You can contribute from 1% to 50% on a pre-tax or Roth after-tax basis.
• KM contributes 4% or 5% of your eligible compensation plus interest to your Retirement Pension Plan on a bi-weekly basis

• Additional Retirement Pension Plan

• Comprehensive Medical/Rx and Dental Plans
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Bonus Program

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER STATEMENT: We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.