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DIVISION TRAINER Flashcards

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What are annual training and operator qualifications? List as many as possible.

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  • EMP Training * Atmospheric Corrosion * Competent Person * MSDS * LockOut/TagOut * Fire Training * Leak Survey * First Responder * Respiratory Equipment.

Think BIG PICTURE including other departments other than Customer Service.

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Can you name some outside agencies that a technical instructor would be involved with?

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  • Police * Fire * City Municipalities * Outside Gas Agencies * County Leaders * Product Vendors * Government Agencies
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What are the job titles within Construction?

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  • Instructor - Plastic
  • Technician
  • Technologist
  • Crew Leader
  • Lead Specialist
  • Welder
  • Line Locate/Leak Survey Technican
  • Field Supervisor
  • Supervisor
  • Superintendent
  • Manager
  • District Manager
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What are the five operating divisions and the Vice Presidents for them?

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  • Southern Arizona - Julie Williams
  • Central Arizona - Luis Frisby
  • Southern Nevada - Chris Sohus
  • Northern Nevada - Brad Harris
  • Southern California - Chris Sohus
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Who is the company president?

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Jeff Shaw

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Who approves a new uniform, tools?

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GOSS Technical Instrutors

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Who handles failed fittings or problematic fittings?

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Engineering Staff

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Who is the Vice President of Central Arizona?

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Luis Frisby

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Who is the Vice President of Engineering Staff?

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Jerry Schmitz

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What are the roles and responsibilities of a Technical Instructor?

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  • Teach core classes
  • Travel to the divisions/field rides
  • Manual revisions
  • EMRF annual training/Management training
  • Prepare for classes
  • Write reports
  • Evaluate tools and equipment
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What is a procedure?

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How we physically do a task.

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How do you learn?

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Writing, listening, involvement, repetition and hands on.

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Who is Sunrise Engineering?

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Sunrise Engineering - is a contractor we use to test our contractors, test the welders, and train contractors and employees in other aspects. Located out of Fillmore, Utah and SWG started working with them in 1995.

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Who is NPL?

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NPL - wholly owned subsidiary, whom offers turnkey pipeline install, originally from Minnesota, relocated in Minesota, then moved corporate headquarters to Arizona. Acquired by SWG.

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What is the LNG plant?

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Peak storage shaving facility, located in Lovelock, NV and part of the Paiute Pipeline Transmission company. Has the ability to store Natural Gas to provide during peak demand seasons.

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Who is Paiute Pipeline?

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Paiute Pipeline - wholly owned subsidiary operating a transmission line in the Northern most part of Nevada. Spanning form NE Idaho to the Northern California boarder. It serves customers like NV Energy, SWG, and other large mines and public entities in the northern Nevada area.

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What does LNG stand for?

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Liquid Natural Gas.

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What is a policy?

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It is an outline of rules * It provides principles that guide your actions * Set roles and responsibilities * Reflects values and beliefs (Why we complete a task and the rules we follow.)

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What is YOUR chain of command?

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Supervisor: Jake Gribble
Superintendent: John Goss
Manager: Danny Rions
Director: Mike Chase
Division VP: Luis Frisby
Company VP: Eric Debonius
Company President: Jeff Shaw
Board of Directors: Customers and stock holders are the board of Directors Boss
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What are the makings of a good memo?

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To:
From:
Date:
Subject:
Opening:
Body:
Closing:
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What does GOSS train?

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  • CT class * CS class * Annual block training * Welding classes * Relight class * Hot Change class * Operations & Maintenance classes O&M.
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What does GOSS evaluate?

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Hand/Power tools, Line location equipment, Leak survey equipment, Clothing Field personnel, PPE (fire suits, breathing equip, eye/ear protection, hard hats), Ladders, Most anything field personnel would use in their job function.

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What manuals is Goss in charge of?

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  • Customer Service
  • Operations
  • Meter Reading
  • Dispatch
  • Emergency Plan
23
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What does GOSS mean?

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Gas Operations Support Staff

24
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What doesn’t GOSS train?

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Tech Servies

25
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What doesn’t GOSS evaluate?

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  • Anything that would carry gas.

* Approval of new pipe or fittings that are a gas carrying component.

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What is a Waiver and who issues them?

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A waiver is a request to GOSS to perform a procedure that is contrary to the Operations/Customer Service manual. If Construction cannot complete a task to fix a leak in a roadway due to heavy traffic they would contact GOSS to extend the period of time to fix the leak that might stray from the identified section in the OPS manual. It is submitted to management and goes to the VP of the division for final approval.

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Approval of a new pipeline and the process?

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All gas carrying components i.e. pipe, fittings etc. is done through Engineering staff. A contact over there is Greg Efthemes 707-668-6376

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What are the job titles within Customer Service?

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  • District Service Tech
  • Service Specialist
  • Service Technician
  • Field Technician
  • Dispatcher
  • Supervisor
  • Superintendent
  • Manager
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What’s the GOSS mission statement?

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To develop and uphold the corporation’s technical standards and to facilitate access to those standards.

To educate, train and qualify in support or operations.

Contribute to the success of the divisions by providing proactive cost-effective support in a timely manner to ensure safe and consistent operation.

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Define EMRF

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Emergency Management Response Facility

31
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What are the 4 p’s?

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Planning
Priority
Perspective
Patience

32
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What is 49 CFR?

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Southwest gas has developed its transmission integrity management program (TRIMP) to comply with the requirements of the U.S. Department of Transportation regulation 49 CRF Part 192, Subpart O - Gas Transmission Pipeline Integrity Management. This comprehensive program has been designed to ensure the integrity of gas transmission pipelines.

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What does TRIMP stand for?

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Transmission integrity management program designed to comply with the requirements of the U S Department of Transportation regulation. 49CFR part 192 Subpart 0 of the Gas Transmission Pipeline Integrity Management.

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What is the Goss chain of command?

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Superintendent: Andrew Dominguez
Manager: Mike Gruenderg
Director: Paul Gustillo
VP of Engineering: Jerry Schmitz
Senior VP: Anita Romero
Executive VP: Bill Moody
Company President: Jeff Shaw

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