Job Description

Overview

Southern Cross is seeking Entry-Level Gas Field Technicians to inspect and validate polyethylene pipe fusion work on gas distribution systems in the New York area. This role is crucial for ensuring safety, quality, and regulatory compliance in the Natural Gas Utility Industry.

Responsibilities

  • Manage daily assigned tasks for safety, quality, and efficiency to exceed customer expectations.
  • Inspect butt fusion, electrofusion, and socket fusion joints for quality and compliance.
  • Document inspection results, maintain logs and prepare reports.
  • Identify defects or non-compliant work and recommend corrective actions.
  • Schedule and plan work efficiently.
  • Follow all safety rules.
  • Follow organizational policies and procedures.
  • Keep Operator Qualifications current.
  • Interact with the public, client’s customers, and client’s personnel professionally, respectfully, and cordially.
  • Accurately complete task reports and work-related reports in a timely manner.
  • Protect, inspect, and maintain assigned equipment and vehicle.

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED.
  • Technical aptitude and past/former technical training is a plus.
  • Computer and Smart Phone literate.
  • Ability to read maps and navigate congested areas in large cities.
  • Adept at using hand tools and equipment.
  • Must have a good driving record and hold a valid driver’s license.
  • Good vision with or without correction.
  • Physically able to bend, squat and move heavy objects and use a pipe wrench and other hand tools and to lift and reach overhead.
  • All Field Technicians are required to successfully pass all Operator Qualification training and testing pertaining to meter work/meter reading.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Work hours will vary depending on client needs and will include weekends, holidays, overnight assignments and rotating shifts.
  • Positions available in areas in/around Tarrytown, Bronx and Manhattan, NY to include all boroughs.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Bronx, NY

Pay in context

At roughly $24/hr, this posting comes in about 25% below the $32/hr median for welding jobs across New York, where the middle half runs $27–$40/hr across 139 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 9% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Bronx, NY

Bronx, NY currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 4 employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across New York as a whole we're tracking 219 other active welding openings from 145 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Bronx, or widen the search to New York.

The most active employers in New York at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in New York, NY (17), Randstad USA (6), and Philips (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within New York, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are New York at $45/hr, Staten Island at $31/hr, and Brooklyn at $30/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Bronx, NY

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