NATURAL GAS TECHNICIAN:
What will you do? |
What competencies will you need? (built on energy foundational competencies—incremental as career advances) |
| Note: Most utilities use a pre-employment test—to pass you will need math, communications, problem solving, and mechanical reasoning skills. |
Starting off as a Crew Assistant:
- Provide assistance to crew by providing tools and equipment
- Make work area safe
- Drive equipment to job site
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- Teamwork
- Drive heavy commercial vehicles
- Lift 75 lbs
- Listen and follow directions
- Come to work on time and prepared
- Be able to stand for long periods of time
- Math skills including algebra, trig, and geometry
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Apprenticeship Training Components:
- Understand fundamentals of Alternating Current / Direct Current
- Demonstrate ability to fuse plastic pipe
- Operate backhoes and other trenching equipment
- Identify components and maintenance of valves
- Assemble and secure pipe
- Identify the necessary steps for the manual or remote opening and/or closing of a valve or other equipment
- Use appropriate equipment to locate gas mains and services
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- Demonstrate skills learned in apprenticeship training on the job
- Dig trenches and make work area safe
- Understand the relationship of physical objects to one another in order to visualize how such objects act together
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Crew Mechanic:
- Prepare trenches for laying pipes
- Lay pipes for gas lines
- Fuse plastic pipe together
- Install and repair both high and low pressure pipe systems
- Install automatic controls used to regulate gas systems
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- Define how the various parts of systems interact (e.g., parts of the distribution systems) and diagnose the effect on the system of changes or malfunctions in its parts
- Solve problems involving limited options by applying common sense understandings such as selecting the correct cutting tool or proper gauge of wire for a job
- Listen to and understand customer needs
- Estimate the size, length, or quantity of objects, as in selecting the proper wrench for a bolt, or choose the size of fitting required
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Crew Leaders:
- Determine schedules and work activities of crew members
- Check for unsafe work conditions
- Communicate effectively with others, including customers, crew members, and supervisors
- Deal with potentially stressful situations
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- People management
- Communications skills
- Assign priority or sequence to the steps for completing a job
- Coordinate several, competing activities for efficient use of time and material
- Adapt work procedures or priorities in response to changing or unforeseen requirements or conditions
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Supervisor:
- Schedule and oversee work of line crews
- Review crew member performance and provide feedback
- Prepare and manage budgets
- Report to management
- Teamwork
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- Financial management
- Computer skills for report preparation
- People management
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Energy Industry Competency Model
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Energy industry careers offer:
- Excellent salaries
- Opportunities for advancement
- Job growth & stability
- Community service
- Great benefits
Where can I find training?
Use the Get Into Energy Training Program Locator at getintoenergy.com/googleapp.
Where can I find a job?
Use the Get Into Energy Jobs website at getintoenergy.jobs. |