Discover a Career as a
Natural Gas Service Technician
Discover your career path in the energy industry.
Learn where your interests will take you. Explore the meaningful work in which you can immerse yourself. Set your sites on what you can learn and the increasing responsibilities that can be yours. See how you will be challenged and what will you accomplish.
*Compensation averages should be used as a guide. There are numerous factors that impact actual compensation. These estimates do not include over-time, which can be a sizeable addition to base pay. Years of service and training recommendations should also be used as a guide. Company requirements vary.
Note: Some energy companies may require pre-employment testing. Please check the job requirements. These may include an EEI Pre-Employment Test or a Physical Abilities Test.
Become a Natural Gas Service Technician
Starting off as a Service Assistant:
What will you do?
- Provide assistance by providing tools and equipment
- Make work area safe
- Enter job data into online system
What knowledge / skills / abilities will you need?
- Ability to work within a team
- Drive heavy commercial vehicles
- Be able to 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, trigonometry, and geometry
Apprenticeship Training:
What will you do?
- Apply fundamentals of Alternating Current and Direct Current
- Investigate code and/or venting conditions and take appropriate actions
- Troubleshoot burners and make the proper adjustments to obtain complete combustion at the rated input
- Using standard test equipment, investigate gas leaks and take appropriate actions to make job safe
What knowledge / skills / abilities will you need?
- Work with a Service Technician or Specialist to apply apprentice training concepts to the job
Service Mechanic Technician:
What will you do?
- Prepare trenches for pipe installation and install gas pipelines
- Install 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
What knowledge / skills / abilities will you need?
- Ability to inspect service lines and house lines, investigate leak fume complaints, restore and terminate gas service and perform pressure checks at customer’s premises
- Use equipment such as CGI gas scope leak machine and Gas Ranger to detect leaks in a customer’s premises or outdoors
- Locate and mark out underground gas and electric facilities in conjunction with work assignment
- Repair and install gas appliances and equipment such as ovens, dryers and hot water heaters
- Measure, cut and thread pipe and connect it to feeder lines and equipment or appliance using ruler and hand tools
Service Specialist:
What will you do?
- Manage own work schedules and report to supervisor on progress and/or problems
- Check for unsafe work conditions
- Communicate effectively with others including customers, crew members and supervisors
- Deal with potentially stressful situations
What knowledge / skills / abilities will you need?
- 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
Supervisor:
What will you do?
- Schedule and oversee work of line crews
- Review crew member performance and provide feedback
- Prepare and manage budgets
- Report to management
What knowledge / skills / abilities will you need?
- Financial management
- Computer skills for report preparation
- People management
Gas technicians specialize in the installation, repair, and construction of natural gas distribution systems. Service technicians work independently on flexible schedules. Learn more.