Engineer - Gas Engineering
Reports to: Manager - Gas Engineering
Location: In Office , Orange CT, East Hartford CT
The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from:
What We Offer
- Competitive benefits and growth opportunities
- Generous performance‑based bonuses
- 12% 401(k) match
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional development and clear career‑advancement pathways
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Job Summary
Knowledgeable, experienced, and responsible for supporting the planning and conduction of various engineering activities and projects. Requires the use and the application of theories, precepts, practice, and disciplines, including practical field experience. Incumbents have an expectation to make recommendations and suggestions regarding solutions to engineering problems and methods applicable to the resolution of prominent issues. Participates in and may lead teams of field employees, technicians, engineers, and other personnel.
Responsibilities
- Supports projects or field engineering activities with average to complex features.
- Performs assigned engineering studies, proposing solutions to engineering-related problems; develops models and analyzes data to support improvement programs, techniques & solutions.
- Interfaces with outside departments, vendors, suppliers, and reliability entities.
- Develops or assists in presentations of engineering-related projects to all levels of management & external parties (contractors, customers, etc.).
- Plans and manages individual workflow to meet budgets and schedules.
- May mentor and provide guidance/direction for less experienced staff.
- Provide subject matter expertise in support of training others on regulatory compliance issues as well as work with internal/external stakeholders to address compliance.
- Maintains standards, procedures, and/or processes for compliance with pipeline safety regulations.
- Provide support and work products for internal Stakeholder to prepare them for state and federal regulatory audits and inspections, as necessary.
- Evaluate and provide appropriate technical guidance on assigned pipeline compliance requests.
- Provide insight and assist on special projects to ensure pipeline safety initiatives are incorporated to align with the Pipeline Safety Management System. Provide widespread support to the internal Stakeholder with a focus on continuous improvement of systems, documentation practices with a focus on consistency and standardization.
- Assist stakeholders with agency response and meet submission deadlines by resolving non-compliance issues through proven methodologies with a focus on preventative measures to mitigate recurrence.
- Provide support to research, compile, and/or prepare studies, responses to proposed changes in regulations, recommendations, policies, procedures, and correspondence.
- Review documents, prepare checklists, audit agendas, conduct pre- and post-audits and prepare final reports.
- Support incident investigations and root cause analyses.
- Communicate well both verbally and in writing, creates accurate and punctual reports, delivers presentations, shares information and ideas with others, and has good listening skills.
- Make decisions systematically under pressure, build consensus among stakeholders and consider impact of decisions.
Behavioral Competencies
- Develop self & others
- Empower to grow
- Collaborate and share
- Be a role model
- Focus to achieve results
- Be agile
Skills and Requirements
Technical Skills/Competencies
- Theoretical Engineering knowledge Planning, Operations and Engineering Design, Analytic, modeling & Calculation, understanding the business model; Global View of the Business (Values cross-functional collaboration, understands importance of growing knowledge and developing relationships and links across the organization).
- Understanding of Federal and State Code requirements applicable to the Operation and Maintenance of natural gas transmission and distribution systems. Understanding of Integrity Management requirements applicable to natural gas transmission and distribution systems.
- Experience researching, identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing problems or situations and coordinating appropriate actions or responses
- Practical engineering experience/application - Planning, Operations and Engineering Design, Construction, (e.g., field experience, standardization "Perform economic analyses of engineering alternatives, develop business cases and defend in front of stakeholders.").
- Planning, Inspection, and analysis of Integrity Management Program assessments including Inline Inspection and External Corrosion, Internal Corrosion, Stress Corrosion and Confirmatory Direct Assessment. Pipeline analysis to determine operability and/or mitigate risk.
- Ability to manage projects, develop efforts and collaborate effectively to obtain positive results.
- Engineering documentation -