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Southern Company

Specialist, Maintenance

Company: 
Southern Company
City: 
Athens
State: 
Tennessee
Employment type: 
Full time
Remote Position: 
No
Required degree level: 
Other

Basic Function:
Perform RNG gathering system and plant operation duties. Inspect, maintain and repair equipment and facilities associated with operating RNG gathering system, compression, chillers, separators, process skids, leachate pumps, TOX, and emergency gas pipeline locating. Perform relief operator duties, as needed, for gas plant operations. Duties involve working around high pressure natural gas and leachate systems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Operate gathering system and auxiliary equipment at assigned facility to attain specific pressures and flow rates. Adjust equipment to maintain maximum operating efficiency of the leaching facilities.
• Legibly and accurately record all equipment operating data; accurately prepare electronic reports needed to satisfy regulatory and operational requirements (i.e., daily, weekly, monthly, annual, etc.).
• Must develop a working knowledge of landfill gas well operations and be able to assist with, and/or, supervise well development projects, and maintain accurate records and daily reports for same work.
• Schedule and perform minor repairs to equipment as needed; coordinate major repairs or equipment/facility inspections by third parties.
• Conduct required inspections of leachate equipment and systems. Report verbally and in writing to Supervisor any malfunctions or symptoms of failure.
• Operate and maintain valves and valve operators of various types and sizes throughout plant and pipeline system. Respond to One Calls as needed. Conduct maintenance and inspections on pipeline facilities or other plant equipment when requested.
• Assists other personnel in performing various tasks as requested.
• Briefs Supervisor and appropriate personnel of current operating conditions, difficulties encountered and known unusual conditions in the performance of leaching and/or plant equipment.
• Participates in job and/or technical training programs and cross-training assignments to improve knowledge and skills.
• Accept changes in work schedule, available for shift work, subject to callouts as determined by Supervisor.
• Operate gas compression, processing, and associated equipment as required.
• Comply and become familiar with Company policies and procedures as well as applicable State and Federal safety and environmental regulations.
• Actively participates in the safety program and maintains tools, equipment, and work area in a safe and orderly manner.
• Promotes relations with customers, producers, and landowners, and cooperates with other departments.
• The person in this position is required to work for extended periods of time in varied weather conditions. May be required to work periodically away from assigned location.

Education and Experience:
• Work experience with the following:
• RNG well construction, completion, Vacuum gathering systems, RNG well balancing RNG well fields to maintain gas quality going to the RNG plant.
• Maintaining equipment and operations associated with RNG gathering and processing.
• High School Graduate or GED

Skills:
• Mathematical proficiency and legible handwriting for the purpose of report preparation to outside agencies and Management
• Ability to prepare written reports in a clear and concise manner
• Basic understanding of computers

Certifications/Licenses:
• Valid driver's license.

Working Conditions/ Physical Requirements:
• Lift and carry medium to heavy weight items. Reach overhead for items, stoop, bend, and twist while working. Ability to exert up to 100 pounds of force occasionally and/or 50 pounds of force frequently.
• Other physical activities include crouching, talking, hearing, and performing repetitive motions. Visual acuity requirements include color, depth perception and field of vision necessary to operate a computer.
Disclaimer: This information describes the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this job. The description is not designed to be a comprehensive inventory of duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees in the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to qualified disabled individuals for performance of essential duties and responsibilities.

Together with our subsidiaries, we deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to our 9 million customers. Our focus is doing so with service excellence.

That means we are leaders who take action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. We create community value through energy, social, economic, and environmental progress.

We do this through electric operating companies in three states and natural gas distribution companies in four. Our family of companies draw on diverse energy sources to create the best mix for our service areas, including electricity, natural gas, solar power, carbon-free nuclear, and other sustainable sources.

We leverage our leading distributed energy infrastructure company and other innovative technology to better serve every customer. Our competitive, national generation company serves wholesale customers, and our family includes a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services.

We have positioned diversity and inclusion as critical to our success enabling us to put the needs and well-being of the people we serve at the center of all that we do.

Southern Company believes all employees should feel welcome, valued, respected and heard. Our goal is a workplace in which all employees contribute to their fullest and a workforce that reflects our customers and communities. We accomplish this by valuing and leveraging the full range of differences and similarities we bring to our teams, customers and communities.

Workplace Awards

  • 2023 100% Corporate Equality Index Score - Human Rights Campaign (7th consecutive year)
  • 2023 America's Best-In-State Employers – Forbes
    • Southern Company (No. 1 in Alabama, No. 5 in Georgia)
  • 2023 Best Employers for Women (No. 9) - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces – Newsweek
  • 2023 Best Companies for Multicultural Women – Seramount
  • 2023 Top 50 Companies for Diversity - DiversityInc (8th consecutive year)
    • No. 1 Top Company for Black executives
    • No. 3 Top Company for Veterans
    • No. 5 Top Company for Supplier Diversity
    • No. 14 - Top Company for Executive Diversity Councils
  • 2022 Global 200 – Forbes
  • 2022 Best Employers for Women - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Best Employers for Diversity - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity - Newsweek
  • 2023 America’s Best Large Employers – Forbes
    • No. 15 overall, top utility
  • 2023 Top 100 Military-Friendly Employer (No. 2) - GI Jobs magazine
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