Sr Pipeline Technician; Platteville, WI

Northern Natural Gas offers a knowledge-based compensation program called Skill-Based Pay. Skill-Based Pay rewards employees for acquiring, demonstrating, and maintaining work skills. Along with Skill-Based Pay, employees may receive an annual discretionary incentive bonus of up to 10.5%, based on individual and company performance.

The Skill-Based Pay system ensures a qualified, versatile workforce that can produce an extremely competitive product across varying business and regulatory climates. Employees are paid according to the skills demonstrated and tasks performed.

Pipeline Techs are multi-skilled employees who perform highly technical work within a geographical area on the largest interstate natural gas pipeline system in the United States.

• Controls – Install, maintain, and troubleshoot programmable logic controllers, human machine interfaces, motor control centers, and medium and low voltage power distribution and pneumatic control devices used 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 produce 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, and skid loaders. 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.

• Assist in performing scheduled preventative maintenance on operational equipment at assigned facilities.
• Recognize abnormal operating conditions.
• Support emergency response.
• Locate pipelines and oversee third‑party excavation and line crossings. Install and inspect pipeline markers.
• Operate work equipment, including 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 pursuant 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.
• Contribute to a team‑centric work environment based on mutual respect and integrity.
• Support the Company’s CHAMPION culture, which centers around personal responsibility, continuous improvement, and delivering quality for our customers.

• An Associate of Applied Science degree in a technical specialization is preferred (e.g., aviation maintenance, diesel, natural gas, compression, instrumentation, controls, electrical, electro‑mechanical, or corrosion).
• A comparable undergraduate degree with a technical specialization certification is applicable. Typically four to six years of related, progressive work experience would be required if the education requirements are not met.
• Successful completion of Pipeline…