Pipefitter - North Slope, AK - Rotational
Listed on 2026-07-26
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Trades / Skilled Labor
Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, Installation Technician
Lays out, assembles, installs, and maintains pipe systems, pipe supports, and related hydraulic and pneumatic equipment for steam, hot water, heating, cooling, lubricating, sprinkling, and industrial production and processing systems.
Responsibilities- Piping field verification, layout, cutting, and preparation for welding.
- Generate & interpret isometric drawings.
- Determine correct material grade, line class, and specifications for various piping systems.
- Set up, bolt-up, and perform hydro tests.
- Determine correct type of pipe supports from isometric drawings.
- Work with different types of rigging and determine correct rigging configurations.
- Determine correct rated rigging for load being hoisted.
- Other duties as assigned.
- High school diploma, GED equivalent, or ten (10) years pipefitter experience.
- Minimum five (5) years of experience as a pipefitter.
- Proficiency with hand and power tools.
- Experience with lifting and setting of heavy‑lift pipe spools, pumps, motors, and structural pipe supports.
- Experience and skill in piping craft in an industrial setting.
- Knowledge of Victaulic, HDPE fusion, ABS, and carbon steel piping.
- Knowledge in P&, mathematics, triangulation of complex offsets.
- Excellent verbal and written communication with positive interpersonal skills.
- Previous experience with fabricating and installing pipelines preferred.
- Must bring own basic hand tools to the job site; required tool list will be provided at hiring.
- Driver’s license and an acceptable driving record for the past three (3) years preferred.
Physical Requirements
The work environment involves exposure to fumes, airborne particles, electrical shock risk, wet or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, high or precarious places, extreme heat or cold, radiation, vibration, and toxic or caustic chemicals. Noise levels are usually loud.
Physical demands: frequent lifting up to 50 lbs and occasional lifting or moving up to 100 lbs. Requires close, distance, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Employee must stand, walk, use hands, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and speak or hear. Steel‑toed boots required.
Competencies- Problem solving – identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner, gathers and analyzes information skillfully, works well in group problem solving situations.
- Technical skills – assesses own strengths and weaknesses, pursues training and development, builds knowledge continuously, shares expertise.
- Oral communication – speaks clearly and persuasively, listens and clarifies, responds well to questions, demonstrates presentation skills, participates in meetings.
- Ethics – treats people with respect, keeps commitments, inspires trust, works with integrity and ethics, upholds values.
- Safety and security – observes procedures, determines appropriate action, reports unsafe conditions, uses equipment and materials properly.
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