Job Description:

• 1) Controls volume of gas in city distribution mains to ensure adequate gas supply according to consumer demand: Determines required governor adjustments to maintain specified gas pressure and volume according to consumer-demand estimates, based on weather conditions and time of day or night, or receives governor adjustment instructions from PRESSURE SUPERVISOR.

• 2) Changes position or number of weights on balance lever or turns valves to adjust governors located at various regulating stations within city.

• 3) Operates switchboard to adjust governors which are remotely controlled by electric telemetering equipment.

• 4) May overhaul gas governors.

• 5) May clean pits housing governors, using suction pump and shovel.

• 6) May determine causes of abnormal pressure variances and make corrective recommendations, such as installation of pipe to relieve overloading.