SSIS Active Directory extract getting periodic errors

I am running an Active Directory extract via SSIS Script Component and receiving the same error randomly:

Error Code: -1073450910 Error Description: System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryServicesCOMException (0x80072020): An operations error occurred.

at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.ScriptComponentHost.HandleUserException(Exception e) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.ScriptComponentHost.PrimeOutput(Int32 outputs, Int32[] outputIDs, PipelineBuffer[] buffers) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.ManagedComponentHost.HostPrimeOutput(IDTSManagedComponentWrapper100 wrapper, Int32 outputs, Int32[] outputIDs, IDTSBuffer100[] buffers, IntPtr ppBufferWirePacket)

I am unable to isolate what is causing the problem because it is happening randomly in many environments: production, development, my own laptop.

When running the same script in the development application project, which makes it easier to identify what is causing problems, the problem goes away. When I re-run the application in development then it completes successfully.

Does anyone know what is causing this random error?

Update

I am running the job with an AD user account that is designated as a service account. I will note that there have been two phases to the project (I and II).

1. Phase I has been in for 2+ months with no problem.
2. When Phase II came up for release, which includes an enhancement to retrieve the proxyaddresses field, the problem started appearing intermittently. However, the new Phase II job was running in development for a month or two without problem. It wasn't until the day of the deployment (last Friday) did the problem first occur in the Stage environment.