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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Architecture & Construction
occupation category
Pipelayers
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Demonstrates an understanding of the design limits of pipelines
- Installs, maintains, and troubleshoots instruments
- Selects pipe sizes and types and related materials, such as supports, hangers, and hydraulic cylinders according to specification
- Signals crane operator to lower basic assembly units to bedplate, and align unit to centerline
- Develops or lay out patterns, using computerized metalworking equipment
- Anticipates obstacles to project completion and develops contingency plans to address them; takes necessary corrective action when projects go off‐track
- Evaluates changes in the environment with respect to their impact on safety of self and others
- Uses tools and equipment in compliance with user manuals and training
- Identifies appropriate jurisdiction for local, state and federal regulatory agencies as they pertain to the job
- Set up and prepare pipe for various welding positions
- Maintains the pipeline route
- Follows energy standards produced by industry organizations, such as ANSI, API, NACE and NFPA
- Determines how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations and the environment will affect outcomes
- Performs flange tightening
- Conducts tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance
- Understands potential threats created by deviation from safety procedures and improper use of tools and equipment \
- Identifies and provides installation methods for different types of valves
- Alerts co-workers and supervisory personnel to hazardous conditions and deviations from safety procedures in a timely manner
- Installs a hydraulic vertical shore for determining the overall fall of a gas main or service setting the grade and elevation of a trench
- Uses principles of compressor operation
- Examines valves or mechanical control device parts for defects, dents, or loose attachments, and mark malfunctioning areas of defective units
- Complies with all relevant environmental laws issued by federal agencies, including EPA
- Applies knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions
- Identifies and explains pneumatic system components and symbols
- Assembles or secures pipes, tubes, fittings, or related equipment, according to specifications, by welding, brazing, cementing, soldering, or threading joints
- Constructs components for high-performance wind turbine systems
- Maintains appropriate certification and is knowledgeable in first aid or first response procedures
- Describes effective methods for dewatering a trench and is able to troubleshoot dewatering equipment
- Keeps personal safety equipment in good working order
- Use lasers, grade rods, transit levels appropriately
- Tests valves and regulators for leaks and accurate temperature and pressure settings, using precision testing equipment
- Assembles and secures pipes, tubes, fittings and related equipment according to specification by welding, brazing, cementing, soldering or threading joints
- Carefully considers which tools or technological solutions are appropriate for a given job and consistently chooses the best tool or technological solution for the problem at hand
- Complies with procedures necessary to ensure a safe and healthy work environment
- Is cognizant of the environment and potential hazards
- Uses personal protection equipment including safety glasses, work boots and hard hats
- Perform lockout/tag out procedures
- Reads, understands, and creates basic prints used in the design, operation, and maintenance of gas, water, chemical networks including engineering drawings and schematic
- Follows safety procedures and uses safety equipment as specified by user manuals and safety training
- Incorporates new information into both current and future problem solving and decision-making
- Applies finishes and coatings
- Identifies and explains types of gas pipeline equipment
- Inspects, examines and tests installed systems and pipelines using pressure gauges, hydrostatic testing, observation and other methods
- Prioritization: The ability to effectively organize and manage tasks according to their level of importance and urgency.
- Uses pavement breaking equipment, digging bars and hand shovels in regard to gas, chemical or water maintenance and emergency response activities
- Fastens roof panel edges or machine-made moldings to structures by nailing or welding
- Covers pipes with earth or other material
- Notifies person in charge and/or co‐workers of unsafe work conditions
- Stops the job if there are unsafe working conditions
- Conducts a leakage survey of natural gas pipelines
- Spreads sand, dirt, or other loose materials onto surfaces
- Digs trenches to desired or required depths by hand or using trenching tools
- Locates existing pipes needing repair or replacement using magnetic or radio indicators
- Explains pneumatic safety
- Runs pigs and performs maintenance pigging
- Uses basic computer technology to receive work orders, report progress and maintain records
- Fastens seams or joints together with welds, bolts, cement, rivets, solder, caulks, metal drive clips, or bonds to assemble components into products or to repair sheet metal items
- Demonstrates effective allocation of time and resources
- Installs lasers, grade rods, transit levels
- Inspects the pipeline following the excavation activities and performs a leakage survey after blasting
- Locates underground structures
- Knows the physical characteristics of gas and compressing gases
- Replaces, repairs or adjusts defective valve or regulator parts and tightens attachments using hand tools, power tools and welder
- Cleans corrosives and other deposits from serviceable parts, using solvents, wire brushes or sandblaster
- Keeps track of details to ensure work is performed accurately and completely
- Responds to the schedules of others affected by arrangements; informs others of arrangements, giving them complete, accurate and timely information
- Selects and applies appropriate tools or technological solutions to frequently encountered problems
- Documentation, job reports, reading maps and work orders, making drawings, operating locating equipment and other miscellaneous duties.
- Measures, cuts, threads and bends pipe to required angle, using hand and power tools or machines such as pipe cutters, pipe‐threading machines and pipe bending machines
- Is knowledgeable of the differences in application of copper and plastic pipe and tubing and uses the correct methods of assembling plastic pipe and tubing, compression and flared fittings and joining methods for grooved and compression formed fittings
- Follows procedures for valve storage and handling
- Understands common methods for preparing the trench for pipe installation, including stabilization, bedding and initial backfill
- Excavates utilities and pipeline components
- Monitors and assesses performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action
- Installs pipe systems to support alternative energy-fueled systems, such as geothermal heating or cooling systems
- Converts blueprints into shop drawings to be followed in the construction or assembly of sheet metal products
- Cuts, threads, or hammers pipes to specifications, using tools such as saws, cutting torches, pipe threaders, or pipe benders.
- Understands how chemical, compressed air, fuel oil, steam and water systems behave
- Lubricates wearing surfaces of mechanical parts, using oils or other lubricants
- Maintains current knowledge of regulatory procedures governing operations
- Finds new ways of organizing work area or planning work to accomplish work more efficiently
- Complies with safety signs and safe work procedures in work areas
- Calls attention to potential and actual hazardous conditions as they arise
- Cuts, threads, or hammers pipes to specifications, using tools such as saws, cutting torches, pipe threaders, or pipe benders
- Identifies piping systems according to color code
- Uses shoring materials per OSHA standards and covers shoring systems
- Grades and levels trench bases using tamping machines or hand tools
- Follows safety procedures
- Ability to plan and organize work as needed to ensure that tasks are completed accurately and in a timely manner based on their relative importance.
- Aligns machines or equipment, using hoists, jacks, hand tools, squares, rules, micrometers, lasers, or plumb bobs
- Equipment Operation and Maintenance: To include backhoe/loaders, trenchers, hydraulic, pneumatic or gasoline tools and equipment
- Identifies pneumatic transmission of energy
