Opening Date: 7-1-26
Closing Date: 7-8-26
A Gas Apprentice Pipe Fitter (GAPF) is required to interpret work orders, requisition materials, complete forms, and perform all Operation Qualification (OQ) and non-OQ tasks, responsibilities, and duties of the department section(s) he or she is assigned under the direct supervision of the Field Operations Supervisor, Lead Foreman and/or assigned Foreman. Until a GAPF has been trained to the satisfaction of his or her supervisor and met all OQ requirements for the task he or she is performing on a gas pipeline, a GAPF may only perform OQ-required tasks in the presence of the foreman, Field Operation Supervisor, or other Operator Qualified Journeyman as assigned. During his or her four-year apprenticeship a GAPF is never to perform any OQ task unsupervised until he or she has been directed by his or her supervisor to do so, and has successfully completed the OQ training for that task to be qualified to perform natural gas tasks as required by the department’s approved OQ plan and Office Pipeline Safety of PHMSA (Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration) Code of Federal Register (CFR) 49 Part §192.801-809, Qualification of Pipeline Personnel, Subpart N.
