Description
Job Purpose:
The Field Maintenance Technician performs duties including various manual, un-skilled, and/or skilled tasks as required for mechanical piping, structural installation, pipe lifting, scaffold erection, sheet metal fabrication, pipeline insulation, rigging, in accordance with Worley safety, environmental and operational practices, policies and procedures.
This position is located on the North Slope and requires a rotational work schedule. Relocation assistance to Alaska is not provided; however, transportation between Anchorage and Prudhoe Bay is provided. Room and meals are provided while in Prudhoe Bay.
Essential Job Functions:
- Perform piping spool/valve installation and removal, rigging, blinding and minor pipe fitting.
- Perform manual labor including operating small hand tools and power tools. (buffer/grinders, reciprocating saws, drills, shovels, etc.), and carrying and lifting materials (cribbing, shoveling snow, and other activities).
- Assist building scaffold with qualified scaffold builder.
- Performs manual labor supporting scaffolding activity, such as cleanup, hauling, stacking materials, shoveling, stacking pipe skids, moving supports, handling steel material and valves.
- Demonstrate and promote safe work practices and adhere to company and client safety policies and procedures for work performed, including proper hazard recognition and mitigation of task and accept accountability for safe work practices.
- Demonstrate support for the company’s environmental management system.
- Ability to work as a part of a team and follow work direction.
- Participate in JSA, pre-job walk-down and risk assessment.
- Routinely perform safety and productivity observations: shop, field, and vehicle inspections.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Ability to develop knowledge and skills in the following areas:
o Structural and mechanical piping maintenance operations.
o Skilled and/or unskilled tasks as required for piping maintenance operations.
o Rigging and piping bolt-up techniques.
o Blinding and pipefitting techniques.
o Piping, valve installation and specifications.
o Piping spool installation and removal.
o Maintenance and disassembly of petroleum equipment.
o Installing/ removing scaffolding.
o Removal of pipeline insulation.
- Ability to operate vehicles (Pickups, 12-foot flatbed trucks - F-550, 12-foot box van trucks – F-550) and equipment (i.e., Man lifts) in all seasons, adverse weather, or road conditions.
- Ability to work as part of a team; communicate effectively with fellow workers and alternate.
- Ability to demonstrate adherence to established safety policies and procedures.
- Ability to demonstrate support for the company’s environmental management system.
- Ability to interpret work instructions.
- Ability to work in confined spaces.
Physical Demands/Work Environment:
Work is performed in a remote Arctic environment with limited medical resources. Candidate understands the site is approximately 840 miles (at least 4 hours by air ambulance) from surgical, specialist, and tertiary medical care, and where medical evacuation from this location may be significantly delayed due to weather conditions. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the essential functions of this job, the employee is required to:
- Must have ability to stand, walk on level, uneven and slippery surfaces, sit, squat, kneel, crawl, reach through low and high ranges, work overhead, and exhibit normal balance and coordination. These basic physical requirements are essential for safe performance of the job in harsh environments with exposure to very cold temperatures and while wearing arctic gear.
- Standing for prolonged periods of time.
- Driving for prolonged periods of time in the dark and inclement weather
- Ability to climb scaffold, ramps, stairs, equipment, portable ladders, and/or wellhouse/tank/facility fixed ladders of 20 feet or greater.
- Ability to wear and utilize fall protection within manufacturer specifications.
- Lift 50 lbs. from floor to waist with two hands.
- Lift 50 lbs. from floor to shoulder with two hands.
- Carry 50 lbs. for 15 feet with two hands.
- Push/pull 60 lbs. sled for 20 feet.
- Push/pull 90 lbs. cart for 20 feet.
This job description is intended to describe the nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required of the job incumbents. Worley provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, including both applicants and employees, to allow the individual to perform the essential functions of the job, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.