The Senior Class Location Specialist is required to facilitate the execution of Enterprise Products' DOT Class Location Program and will be responsible for conducting, coordinating, making final determinations and recommendations associated to the State and Federal mandated Class Location and Change In Class studies for all of Enterprise Products' Natural Gas Pipelines. Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• DOT Class Location (Class) and High Consequence Area (HCA) determinations as required by State and Federal regulations associated with both Transmission and Gathering Natural Gas Pipelines.
• Aerial imagery (photography) based structure (building and outdoor assembly area) identifications and subsequent phone interviews.
• Supervising and/or conducting on-the-ground pipeline centerline and structure validation surveys with subsequent in-person interviews.
• Developing, maintaining, coordinating and analyzing GIS data related to Pipeline Open Data Standard (PODS) based database, shape, layer, keyhole mark-up language, and custom map files.
• Conducting Change In Class Location (MAOP- Maximum Allowable Operating Pressure) studies and making final action item determinations for Natural Gas Pipelines.
• Developing, assembling, and maintaining a fully electronic, records management filing system.
• Coordinating data between, evaluating requests from and providing technical support to all internal departments and external vendors with a heavy emphasis on Operational Area support.
• State and federal regulatory audits and inspections.
• Coordinating efforts between various departments regarding matters such as: due diligence for the Commercial department on new acquisitions, technical guidance for Project Engineering on new construction, data validation for Pipeline Integrity on information analysis (etc), data coordinating for Records-Data-GIS department to update the central asset database, and final Class, HCA and MAOP determinations for Operations.
• Providing and maintaining perpetual, weekly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual Pipeline Compliance related tasks, goals, costs, scheduling and tracking updates.

The successful candidate will meet the following qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or Engineering is required. Or, five years of direct experience with Natural Gas Pipelines in a Regulatory Compliance and/or GIS setting may be substituted in lieu of a Bachelor's degree.
• 5+ years of direct experience with Natural Gas Pipelines in a GIS role with an emphasis on project management and/or coordinating is required.
• 5+ years Regulatory Compliance experience, specifically dealing with Class Location studies is preferred.
• Detailed understanding of: (1) PHMSA Code of Federal Regulations (49 CFR) parts 192.179, 192.5, 192.609, 192.611, 192.613, 192.625, 192.705, 192.706, 192.903 and all referenced parts and material (2) ESRI GIS Arc View, Arc Catalog, Arc GIS Explorer (3) Microsoft Excel are required.
• Must be able to obtain Transportation Worker Identification Credentials (TWIC) and pass regular DOT drug tests.
• Pipeline field survey experience with an emphasis in Class Locations; experience operating Global Positioning System Units (GPS); processing and analyzing GPS readings; operator qualified on line locating and abnormal operating conditions and detailed understanding of ASME B31.8 pipe design specifications is preferred.
• Excellent typing skills and knowledge of Microsoft Access, Adobe Professional, Google Earth and Bing Maps are preferred.
• Ability to walk up stairs (valve sites, compressor stations, pump stations, etc.), withstand being outdoors for extended time is required.
• 50% domestic travel is required.