Senior Pipeline Technician

Job Highlights

Company Profile

Northern Natural Gas (a Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company) provides natural gas transportation and storage services to 81 utilities and numerous producers, energy marketing companies, and industrial end-users. It also provides grid transportation between other interstate and intrastate pipelines, and access to major North American gas supply basins in Canada, the Rocky Mountains, the Mid Continent and Permian Basins, and major shale gas developments.

Job Profile

The company is recruiting a Senior Pipeline Technician who will perform activities required to successfully operate and maintain Northern Natural Gas compressor stations and pipeline facilities.

Perform highly technical work within a geographical area on the largest interstate natural gas pipeline system in the United States.

Education Level

• An Associate of Applied Science Degree in a technical specialization is preferred.
• Ideal degrees include Associate of Applied Science in aviation maintenance, diesel, natural gas, compression, instrumentation, controls, electrical, electro-mechanical, or corrosion.
• A comparable undergraduate degree with a technical specialization certification is applicable.

Work Experience

• Typically, 4 to 6 years of related progressive work experience would be needed for candidates applying for this position who do not possess the education requirements.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Assist in performing scheduled preventative maintenance on operational equipment at an assigned facility.
• Recognizes abnormal operating conditions.
• Supports emergency response.
• Locate pipelines and oversee third-party excavation and line crossings. Install and inspect pipeline markers.
• Operate work equipment including but not limited to power tools, hand tools, and specialized instruments used in pipeline operations, maintenance, and repair of facilities.
• Maintain and operate facilities in compliance with specifications, codes, safety and environmental standards/records, and company operating procedures.
• Assist in maintaining records according to required state, federal, and company procedures.
• Review work assignments with the team to ensure work is completed with established safe work practices and reporting.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Controls – Install, maintain, and troubleshoot programmable logic controllers, human-machine interfaces, motor control centers, medium and low voltage power distribution, and pneumatic control devices utilized in pipeline operations.
• Measurement – Program, maintain, operate, and troubleshoot gas measurement equipment including gas meters, control valves, relief valves, regulators, and associated software, as well as monitoring gas and quality control equipment.
• Corrosion – Install, maintain, and troubleshoot corrosion protection equipment to ensure pipeline integrity. NACE CP1 Tester certification is preferred.
• Mechanical – Install, maintain, troubleshoot, overhaul, and repair rotating and reciprocating compression equipment.
• Liquefied Natural Gas Operations – Ensure reliable operation and maintenance of processes required to make liquefied natural gas.
• Underground Storage Operations – Ensure reliable operation and maintenance of processes required to store and deliver natural gas from underground reservoirs.
• Compressor Station Operations – Ensure reliable operation of compressor station equipment.
• Pipeline – Perform pigging operations, damage prevention measures, and pipeline right-of-way maintenance.
• Equipment Operation – Transport, inspect, maintain, and operate various mobile heavy equipment including backhoes, boom trucks, semi-trucks, dump trucks, excavators, skid loaders, etc. Additional endorsements for hazmat and liquefied natural gas transportation are available.
• Welding – Pipeline welders must be qualified in API 1104 and ASME standards to weld on natural gas pipelines. Structural welders must be qualified in AWS standards.
• Environmental – Maintain environmental standards, environmental activities, and regulatory compliance for assigned locations.
• Successful completion of Pipeline Technician Academy or achievement of at least one skill block.
• Must have a valid driver’s license. Work schedules may vary with some positions requiring overtime and overnight stays away from home, on-call and rotating schedules and availability for emergency response calls out 24 hours per day.
• Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without accommodation.

Benefits/Perks

• Adoption Assistance
• Bereavement Leave
• Dental
• Disability
• Dress Guidelines
• Employee Assistance Program
• Fitness Center​
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Life Insurance
• Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA)
• Medical
• Paid Time Off
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement/Learning
• Vision
• Voluntary Benefits

Employer’s Statement

Northern Natural Gas is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.