Kinder Morgan, one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in North America, has been in operation since 1997. Over the years, we have understood that not only do our people contribute to our success, but that they should share in that success. We provide all employees with a safe, honest, trustworthy, ethical, respectful and professional work environment. We believe in building friendly and personal long-term relationships by supporting our employees with ongoing training, continued grow... more details
Kinder Morgan, one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in North America, has been in operation since 1997. Over the years, we have understood that not only do our people contribute to our success, but that they should share in that success. We provide all employees with a safe, honest, trustworthy, ethical, respectful and professional work environment. We believe in building friendly and personal long-term relationships by supporting our employees with ongoing training, continued growth and internal advancement while cultivating teamwork and diversity with a culture of inclusion from various experiences and backgrounds.
The Field Compression Engineering position requires a high interest and aptitude for rotating mechanical equipment. The position is challenging, exciting and provides opportunities to address new issues every day. The Field Compression Engineer will provide technical expertise to help maintain and improve the reliability of natural gas compression and ancillary equipment. Equipment types include:
- Low speed integral reciprocating engines and compressors
- High speed separable reciprocating engines and compressor
- Gas turbine engines and centrifugal compressor
Compression equipment supported by this role ranges from 1,000 to 30,000+ horsepower manufactured by various companies including Caterpillar, Clark, Cooper Bessemer, Dresser-Rand, General Electric, Ingersoll-Rand, Solar Turbines, Wartsila, Waukesha and Worthington. This is a great opportunity if you have experience working in Refinery, Manufacturing, Railroad or Pipeline industries or while serving our country in the Military. To be considered for our Katy, TX based Field Compression Engineer job click on Apply Now to sign in or create an account to upload your resume.
Primary Purpose
- Provide technical expertise to support mechanical needs for various customers.
- Aid in the specification of natural gas compression equipment based on provided operating conditions to optimize performance efficiencies, flexibility to changes in operating conditions, long-term reliability, ease of maintenance, while minimizing 20 year life cycle costs.
- Establish vendor relationships as applies to equipment in the area.
- Deal with a wide variety of people with tact, courtesy and professionalism.
- Organize work for timely completion and be available for overtime work if required.
- Use personal judgment and specialized knowledge to provide and safeguard confidential information.
- Communicate in a highly professional manner. Speak clearly, both in person and by telephone, using a high level of verbal skills and listen carefully. E-mail will be professional at all times.
- Travel (up to 50% often overnight) to contractor or Kinder Morgan sites for mechanical support as well as to attend meetings and conferences. Weekend travel is occasionally required.
- Work with Operations in development of annual budgets in regard to compression and ancillary equipment needs.
- Maintain a high degree of attention to detail.
- Be capable of managing multiple assignments with various deadlines and responsibility levels concurrently.
- Maintain a regular, dependable attendance and high level of performance.
- Knowledgeable of company engineering specification.
- Knowledgeable of company and governmental safety regulations.
- Maintain a high regard for the safety of the general public, company and contract personnel, and company assets.
- Read and interpret mechanical, electrical, control, and instrumentation drawings.
