Pipeline Safety Engineer - Compliance & Incident Analysis

PowerLines; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

PowerLines is seeking an Engineer to join the Pipeline Safety Section of the Office of Energy System Planning and Performance in New York. The role focuses on ensuring the safety and integrity of gas, hazardous liquid, and steam pipelines through compliance evaluations and inspections.

You will guide safety audits, review designs, investigate incidents, analyze waivers and siting applications, and prepare expert testimony for Public Service Commission proceedings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an accredited engineering curriculum.
• NY 55-b/c eligibility encouraged for applicants.
• Knowledge of pipeline safety regulations and integrity management is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Providing guidance on safety compliance audits and inspections and determining corrective actions for operators not in compliance with State and Federal regulations pertaining to pipelines.
• Performing facility design review, including review of design plans of construction projects, performing construction inspections, and documenting field activities and preparing inspection reports.
• Performing investigations of incidents involving natural gas and hazardous liquids pipelines, especially those that involve injury to people or significant property damage and preparing reports and memoranda to the Public Service Commission.
• Performing design review of the facilities involved in an incident, designing any necessary testing, and performing failure analysis to determine the cause of the incident.
• Reviewing and analyzing waiver petitions filed by pipeline operators related to federal and State pipeline safety regulations.
• Reviewing and analyzing applications received under the Public Service Law's Article VII dealing with siting of major natural gas transmission facilities for compliance with the gas safety regulations dealing with construction, operations, and maintenance of such facilities.
• Providing engineering analysis for rate proceedings and preparing expert testimony to support staff's findings and positions for public hearings before the Public Service Commission.
• Additional relevant duties may be required, as directed.

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

PowerLines is seeking an Engineer to join the Pipeline Safety Section of the Office of Energy System Planning and Performance in New York. The role focuses on ensuring the safety and integrity of gas, hazardous liquid, and steam pipelines through compliance evaluations and inspections.

You will guide safety audits, review designs, investigate incidents, analyze waivers and siting applications, and prepare expert testimony for Public Service Commission proceedings.