ILI Field Specialist – US and Canada

Your Job

DarkVision, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is in search of a dedicated ILI Field Specialist to facilitate pipeline inspections across the United States and Canada. This role involves travelling extensively to maintain, test, and deploy Inline Inspection (ILI) tools. If you have hands-on experience working with downhole or ILI systems, excellent communication skills, and the desire to work with rapidly evolving technologies, we want to hear from you. This is an excellent opportunity to join a world-class team revolutionizing industrial imaging. The role will be based in our HQ in North Vancouver, BC, and will require 50 to 75% out of town travel.

Our Team

DarkVision’s award winning Kraken is an ultrasound-based ILI system that performs crack detection, geometry, and metal loss measurements all in a single run, at full line speed, and at ultra-high resolution. The team at DarkVision empowers operators to make well-informed decisions by providing them with a clear view of their piping infrastructure. Join us on this exciting journey as we strive to become the leader in industrial imaging.

What You Will Do

• Field Operations: Prepare, operate, and troubleshoot ILI tools at various pipeline sites across the US and Canada. Oversee the deployment and recovery of the ILI vehicles.
• Maintain Equipment: Ensure that tools, parts, trucks, and critical equipment are checked, cleaned, calibrated, and verified for each job is an essential part of deploying the technology. You will have responsibilities relating to the care of the tools, outfitting of testing and support facilities, and tool planning and logistics between jobs.
• Troubleshooting: Deploying new technology naturally necessitates troubleshooting problems that arise in real-time. You’ll be supported by strong and responsive engineering and operations teams, but the ability to figure things out quickly, and improvise under pressure will be critical to overall job success. The capacity to anticipate and solve field problems is paramount.
• Collaboration on Product Testing: Work closely with engineering and manufacturing teams to help develop and follow processes to support testing of new ILI products. Your feedback from testing and field operations will contribute directly to product development.
• SOP Development and Documentation: Contribute to the development, creation, and organization of operating procedures, checklists, reports, and other program documentation.
• Communication: Quick, clear, and effective communication with customers, subcontractors, and DarkVision staff is your responsibility. Represent DarkVision with pride and uphold our reputation of excellent service quality.
• Everything & Anything: There will be a wide assortment of standard and not-so-standard tasks that you’ll be expected to complete, both inside and outside the typical field deployment umbrella. The role has an entrepreneurial side so that no task will be either above or beneath you.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Technical Education and Experience: A bachelor’s degree in engineering OR experience in either oilfield services or ILI.
• Ability to Travel: There is a significant amount of time away from home travelling and performing work in the field. Willingness to perform a high volume of fieldwork (50 to 75% of the time) sustainably is required.
• US and Canada Work Eligibility: The successful candidate must have existing legal work authorization for Canada and be eligible (through company support) for a US work visa (e.g. clean criminal record check and eligible for a TN visa as an engineer or a scientific technician/technologist)
• Drug and Alcohol Testing: Due to US Dept. of Transportation requirements, you must agree to ongoing drug and alcohol testing.
• Communication Skills: The ability to communicate problems, concerns, and discrepancies to stakeholders in a direct but diplomatic way is a crucial part of the role.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Oil Field Service Experience: Hands-on experience travelling, maintaining, and deploying integrity assessment technologies in the upstream or midstream sector.
• Certification: ASNT ILI-PQ Tool Operator Level II certification or greater.
• Career-Focused: If you’re looking to work hard, advance your career, and get paid well while learning about ILI operations, you’ve come to the right place.
• Technology Enthusiast: DarkVision works on novel, innovative, and complex technologies. We also leverage all kinds of the latest tools and technologies across our business (we are, after all, a technology company that happens to be in the oil field service business). The desire to learn, play with and embrace new technologies and software systems is part of being a DarkVision employee.
• Experience maintaining and deploying electromechanical equipment.
• Experience with complex technical systems and inspection technologies.
• Experience working with engineering teams to introduce new technologies or processes.

What’s In It For You?

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Growth Potential & Career Advancement – DarkVision is experiencing rapid growth with various new technologies, products, and markets. There are significant opportunities for increased responsibility, pay, and career advancement as the company continues to expand.
• Flexible work environment with extensive travel opportunities.
• Supportive team environment with a focus on safety and innovation.

General Salary Range

For this role, we anticipate paying $80,000 to $100,000 per year in base salary. This role is eligible for variable pay, such as job bonuses.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

DarkVision Technologies Inc. is a Canada-based tech company disrupting the industrial imaging market since 2013. We have created the world’s most advanced acoustic-based imaging platform. We are packaging it into multiple new product lines, revolutionizing how our clients quantify and visualize the integrity of their critical assets.

Backed by Koch Industries, one of the world’s largest privately held companies, DarkVision’s team of Mechanical, Skunkworks, Electrical, Software, and Machine Learning Engineers is rapidly expanding to meet the demand for the company’s current and upcoming products.

Our employees work on cutting-edge technologies that blend science with real-world applications. We invite you to join our team for the exciting journey ahead as we become the global leader in industrial imaging.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

How to Apply

If you have the above qualifications, we would like to hear from you. We thank all applicants in advance, but please be advised that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

We are an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation or assistance at any time during the application or selection processes, please submit a request by following the directions located in the FAQ section at the bottom of the kochcareers.com webpage.

Successful candidates will be required to complete a criminal background check.

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