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Overview

Black Hills Energy is a purpose-driven utility company serving over one million customers across the West and Midwest. The Welder 1 position involves the installation and maintenance of gas pipelines and related facilities, emphasizing safety and compliance.

Responsibilities

  • Perform and inspect pipeline and structural welding for construction and maintenance of Company facilities.
  • Install, relocate, replace, maintain, and repair gas lines.
  • Provide oversight and inspection for excavation activities near pipeline facilities.
  • Complete required documentation and report progress to Operations Management.
  • Be available for emergency response and participate in on-call rotation.
  • Represent the Company in meetings with landowners, public officials, and local organizations.
  • Train and oversee company and second party personnel.
  • Perform governmental compliance activities.
  • Maintain mapping, documentation, record keeping, and data entry duties.
  • Identify, report, and correct safety and environmental concerns.
  • Participate in the development of O&M Procedures and project scopes.
  • Advance to subsequent levels via completion of applicable OQs and certifications.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or equivalent.
  • Associate's Degree of Applied Science in Welding or equivalent experience.
  • Welder experience required.
  • API 1104 welding certification preferred, must obtain within 180 days of hire.
  • Must possess and maintain a valid driver’s license.
  • Class A CDL License required within specific timeframes.
  • Basic math skills.
  • Good verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to work from blueprints, sketches, and diagrams.
  • Operate micrometers, calipers, and thickness testing equipment.
  • Operate all plastic fusion equipment.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Location: Sutton, Nebraska.
  • Travel within and occasionally out of the geographic region may be required.
  • May be required to work non-traditional hours.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in Sutton, NE

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting sits about 60% above the $24/hr median for welding jobs across Nebraska — toward the top of a $17–$27/hr middle band drawn from 23 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 96% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Sutton, NE

Sutton, NE is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across Nebraska as a whole we're tracking 33 other active welding openings from 25 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Nebraska.

Black Hills Energy currently has 1 other opening live in Nebraska, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Nebraska at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Valmont Industries, Inc. (5), REV Group, Inc (3), and CNH (2). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • API 1104 — the American Petroleum Institute standard for welding pipelines and related facilities. It is the governing code for cross-country transmission pipeline work.

Read straight from this posting's text. Confirm the exact qualification the employer wants before you test — requirements vary by shop even under the same code.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welder 1 (74NE) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.