Info on Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline specifically employment!?
Asked by Kate T
My boyfriend is a welder and we heard about the need for welders on the north slope for the natural gas pipeline. If anyone can give me any information or any means to contact anyone that would have information that would be very helpful!

Best Answer:
First place to look is "Workforce Connection" (Dept of Labor) under The State of Alaska. Next and VERY Important IS This.... Conditions! How much Verified Experience (License, School- Training, and Any Pipe-Line Welding Experience) Second to this IS Extreme Working Conditions: Isolated- NO FAMILY in The Work-Camp, Can Work A 28 Day Rotation: 28 Days Away from you, Weather: Bitter Cold Winters, Mosquitos In Summer, Rain, Wind, Heat. Finally, IT'S NO PICNIC, and Companies Need/Want Workers who ARE Mental: Stable, NO QUITTERS, who can handle being away from The World. Working/Living in groups 24/7 while on Rotation, All The While You Work SAFE, Be Productive: Get The Job Done, and Not Crying... I Wanna Go Home! These Companies Pay-GOOD, But They also SPEND A Small Fortune on each employee, so THEY WANT/DEMAND A Return on each employee. Some AREN'T "Cut-Out" for that kind of Work... Those who ARE, EARN those Big-Bucks! Think REAL Hard on this and Research All that you can, before you plan on-going up there, at your expense... Once there, There IS NO going-back, until Rotation! Good-Luck. Oh Yes, I'm an Oil-Field "Hand" with 30 years of experience... Hard Work, Long Hours, High Stress Job, But It's A Living, and Can Be Fun too!

You need to move to Alaska now. The new pipeline is in the funding stage at this time. Next will be planning and then construction. You need to be here before the planning stage starts - after that finding affordable housing will be a bear. Just as housing was scarce during the 1970's pipeline constrction - so will it be with this new one. By law - priority for hiring on this new pipeline will be given to people who are Alaska residents. And the people who do the hiring will give priority to personnel that have experience with Alaska for several winters. Too often people are hired, trained, and just as they start to become productive they bail out - usually because either they, or their spouse, or kids cannot hack the winter, lack of sunshine, or being so far away from their family in the lower 48. Get up here and get established while the getting is good. You come up here in 2-3 years when the construction is started - you are so going to be kicking yourself. Right now you can buy a decent house for $90K to $125K or rent a place for $900 month. In 2-3 years it is predicted that small home suitable for couples and couples with 1 child, if you can find one for sale - will go up 100%+ along with rent - just like they did during the last pipeline. You will be me making good money on the pipeline - but - bleeding it out in rent or mortgage payments. Hope this helps.
Answered by Glacierwolf