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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Architecture & Construction
occupation category
Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Uses principles of compressor operation
- Installs a hydraulic vertical shore for determining the overall fall of a gas main or service setting the grade and elevation of a trench
- Identifies and provides installation methods for different types of valves
- 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
- Demonstrates general trouble shooting and maintenance of several types of valves
- Equipment Operation and Maintenance: To include backhoe/loaders, trenchers, hydraulic, pneumatic or gasoline tools and equipment
- Aligns machines or equipment, using hoists, jacks, hand tools, squares, rules, micrometers, lasers, or plumb bobs
- 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.
- Follows safety procedures
- Grades and levels trench bases using tamping machines or hand tools
- Identifies pneumatic transmission of energy
- 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
- Use lasers, grade rods, transit levels appropriately
- Assembles and secures pipes, tubes, fittings and related equipment according to specification by welding, brazing, cementing, soldering or threading joints
- Tests valves and regulators for leaks and accurate temperature and pressure settings, using precision testing equipment
- Perform lockout/tag out procedures
- Uses personal protection equipment including safety glasses, work boots and hard hats
- Is cognizant of the environment and potential hazards
- Complies with procedures necessary to ensure a safe and healthy work environment
- Determines how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations and the environment will affect outcomes
- Conducts tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance
- Performs flange tightening
- Follows energy standards produced by industry organizations, such as ANSI, API, NACE and NFPA
- Understands potential threats created by deviation from safety procedures and improper use of tools and equipment \
- Maintains appropriate certification and is knowledgeable in first aid or first response procedures
- Keeps personal safety equipment in good working order
- Constructs components for high-performance wind turbine systems
- Determines causes of operating errors, decides what to do about them and knows when to notify more senior personnel
- Describes effective methods for dewatering a trench and is able to troubleshoot dewatering equipment
- Identifies and appropriately uses start and stop flow
- Cuts, threads, or hammers pipes to specifications, using tools such as saws, cutting torches, pipe threaders, or pipe benders
- Complies with safety signs and safe work procedures in work areas
- Uses shoring materials per OSHA standards and covers shoring systems
- Finds new ways of organizing work area or planning work to accomplish work more efficiently
- Calls attention to potential and actual hazardous conditions as they arise
- Identifies piping systems according to color code
- Fastens roof panel edges or machine-made moldings to structures by nailing or welding
- Explains pneumatic safety
- Runs pigs and performs maintenance pigging
- 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
- Conducts a leakage survey of natural gas pipelines
- Covers pipes with earth or other material
- Spreads sand, dirt, or other loose materials onto surfaces
- Monitors equipment to ensure maintenance schedules are adhered to
- Uses pavement breaking equipment, digging bars and hand shovels in regard to gas, chemical or water maintenance and emergency response activities
- Prioritization: The ability to effectively organize and manage tasks according to their level of importance and urgency.
- Inspects, examines and tests installed systems and pipelines using pressure gauges, hydrostatic testing, observation and other methods
- Identifies and explains types of gas pipeline equipment
- 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
- Converts blueprints into shop drawings to be followed in the construction or assembly of sheet metal products
- Maintains and troubleshoots tools and technologies
- Monitors and assesses performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action
- Lubricates wearing surfaces of mechanical parts, using oils or other lubricants
- 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
- Understands how chemical, compressed air, fuel oil, steam and water systems behave
- 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
- Installs pipe systems to support alternative energy-fueled systems, such as geothermal heating or cooling systems
- Cuts, threads, or hammers pipes to specifications, using tools such as saws, cutting torches, pipe threaders, or pipe benders.
- Demonstrates knowledge of normal equipment operation (how the individual pieces of equipment relate to each other) in order to spot potential equipment problems before they occur
- 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
- Establishes realistic timeline and estimates of resources needed
- Cleans corrosives and other deposits from serviceable parts, using solvents, wire brushes or sandblaster
- Selects and applies appropriate tools or technological solutions to frequently encountered problems
- Keeps track of details to ensure work is performed accurately and completely
- 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
- Responds to the schedules of others affected by arrangements; informs others of arrangements, giving them complete, accurate and timely information
- Uses basic computer technology to receive work orders, report progress and maintain records
- Installs lasers, grade rods, transit levels
- Inspects the pipeline following the excavation activities and performs a leakage survey after blasting
- Locates underground structures
- Replaces packing and o‐rings as well as opening and closing an o bonnet
- 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
- Anticipates obstacles to project completion and develops contingency plans to address them; takes necessary corrective action when projects go off‐track
- Demonstrates an understanding of the design limits of pipelines
- Maintains the pipeline route
- Signals crane operator to lower basic assembly units to bedplate, and align unit to centerline
- Develops or lay out patterns, using computerized metalworking equipment
- Evaluates changes in the environment with respect to their impact on safety of self and others
- Selects pipe sizes and types and related materials, such as supports, hangers, and hydraulic cylinders according to specification
- Uses tools and equipment in compliance with user manuals and training
- Identifies and explains pneumatic system components and symbols
