Asset Protection Specialist

1 week ago


Newport News, Virginia, United States Southern Company Full time
Job Summary

The Asset Protection Specialist plays a critical role in safeguarding company assets from damages, encumbrances, and encroachments on distribution and transmission pipelines, their associated abutments, land rights-of-way, and easement rights. This operational position requires ensuring compliance with state, federal, and corporate pipeline safety regulations and standards for Southern Company Gas and subsidiaries.

Key Responsibilities
  • Functional Expertise: Serve as the Asset Protection liaison between excavators, municipalities, builders, developers, landowners, logging operators, AGL Contractors, and their agents/contractors, responding to any issues or concerns.
  • Conduct quality audits on locate contractors and right-of-way contractors to ensure compliance and quality is maintained while updating the required electronic system.
  • Conduct 2nd and 3rd party damage investigations and provide thorough and accurate damage reports to the Virginia State Corporation Committee, determining the root cause of damages and addressing issues with locate contractors or excavators on site, and providing training as necessary.
  • Serve as a liaison to the excavating community, internal stakeholders, and locators, resolving Difficult to Locate Issues to ensure a proper locate is completed and no downtime claim occurs.
  • Conduct education sessions with locate contractors, excavators, landowners, and homeowners regarding protecting assets.
  • Monitor and coordinate compliance and safety issues for locating, right-of-way maintenance, and submerged crossings. Stand by when any work is being performed on or near AGL's High Profile facilities by 2nd or 3rd party excavators.
  • Conduct inspections of the right-of-way per Federal Code 192 requirements, installing pipeline markers as required and documenting issues in the required electronic system, following up on the issues until resolved.
  • Coordinate submerged crossing inspections, blasting, and excavation activities on and off our Right-of-Ways to protect AGL assets.
  • Respond to Asset Protection High Profile facilities, incidents, and emergencies on and off our Right-of-Ways.
  • Monitor monthly compliance reports to ensure resolution, i.e., aerial patrol, etc.
  • Locate gas mains on the Right-of-ways per AGL's construction policy for AGL Contractors.
  • Meet with excavators to resolve field conflicts.
  • Follow Company Standard ROW procedures, ensuring proper forms are utilized and records remain up-to-date, i.e., encroachment agreements, right-of-way patrols, and maps, etc.
  • Monitor and work with the Locate contractor to correct performance.
Business Acumen:
  • Attend large project pre-con meetings and monitor progress to protect assets.
  • Monitor and follow-up on daily ticket load to prevent future damages.
  • Assist with damage investigations at the time of damage or during research.
  • Conduct research on easement and encroachment issues.
Engagement:
  • Represent the company at Local Damage Prevention meetings.
  • Oversee and inspect all right-of-way maintenance, remediation, mowing, and side trimming in assigned areas to ensure it has been completed to AGL specifications.
  • Support Trade Show, Industry Committees, and One Call events regarding Asset Protection.
Driving Results:
  • Ensure compliance and requirements are met relating to contracts, patrols, inspections, and audits.
  • Ensure required Asset Protection documentation through Compliance Tracking Systems and SharePoint Sites or other electronic means remains up-to-date.
  • Review quality issues with management and implement improvements to protect assets.


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