Restoration Supervisor

Peoples Natural Gas; McKeesport (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Peoples is seeking a supervisor for gas distribution restoration with significant experience in gas operations and leadership. You will plan restoration, coordinate with contractors, review productivity, and ensure safety and regulatory compliance across projects.

The role requires strong Microsoft software skills, familiarity with GIS, SAP, and P6 Primavera, and ability to collaborate with internal departments and external partners. Travel to multiple sites is expected as part of the job.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of SOPs, practices, procedures, and regulations.
• Strong Microsoft software proficiency and compliance/tracking tools.
• Excellent planning, organizational, project, and systems management skills.
• Ability to manage costs, contractors, and schedules.
• Solid leadership and team-building and strong written/verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage conflict, problem-solve, motivate, and lead change.

Responsibilities

• Team with internal departments and contractors to apply safety goals, SOPs, regulations and best practices to all restoration processes.
• Plan, schedule, assign and monitor restoration work related to pipeline operations.
• Review contractor productivity and quality; monitor performance and allocation.
• Pre-inspect jobs and document conditions; conduct post-project inspections for proper restoration.
• Coordinate with construction to review changes in restoration scope and complete paperwork.
• Monitor contractor activities to ensure compliance with local ordinances.
• Monitor budgets; review and approve invoices.
• Investigate and respond to restoration inquiries and claims with customers and stakeholders.
• Act as point of contact for municipalities regarding restoration.
• Utilize Microsoft applications, GIS, SAP, P6 Primavera, and related tools.

Skills

SOP knowledge

Microsoft proficiency

Planning & PM

Cost & scheduler mgmt

Leadership & teamwork

Conflict resolution

Education

High school diploma or GED

Associate's degree (technical)

Tools

Microsoft apps

GIS

SAP

P6 Primavera

Job description

Peoples, an Essential Utilities company, has been proudly serving Western Pennsylvania for over 130 years, offering talented individuals the opportunity to serve more than 700,000 customers in the region. Peoples is more than your average natural gas utility. We have a vision to:

• Provide valuable services to our customers
• Encourage economic growth for businesses in our region
• Improve the quality of life for our communities
• Ensure that we are protecting our environment
• Support our employees and partners

Join our team and make a difference!

About Essential Utilities

Essential Utilities, Inc. delivers safe, clean, reliable services that improve quality of life for individuals, families, and entire communities.

Operating as the Aqua (water and wastewater services) and the Peoples and Delta (natural gas) brands, Essential serves approximately 5.5 million people across 10 states. We are committed to sustainable growth, operational excellence, a superior customer experience, and premier employer status - including a competitive and comprehensive benefits package as well as a commitment to career growth opportunities.

We are advocates for the communities we serve and are dedicated stewards of natural lands, protecting more than 7,600 acres of forests and other habitats throughout our footprint.

Our company is one of the most significant publicly traded water, wastewater service and natural gas providers in the U.S.

Supervise hard and soft surface restoration work related to the construction and maintenance of gas distribution facilities, including all related projects, resource management, and customer involvement. Ensure work is conducted safely, reliably, timely, and within compliance to all internal, federal, state, and local statutes and regulations.

What You Will Do:

• Team with internal departments and contractors to ensure safety goals, SOPs, regulations, and best practices are applied to all restoration processes.
• Plan, schedule, assign, and monitor the restoration work related to pipeline operations.
• Review contractor productivity and quality. Monitor performance and contractor allocation.
• Pre-inspect jobs documenting existing conditions. Conduct post project inspections to ensure proper restoration is being performed.
• Team with construction to review any change in scope of restoration and complete required paperwork.
• Monitor and review contractor activities to ensure compliance with local ordinances.
• Monitor budget goals. Review and approve invoices.
• Investigate, resolve, and respond to restoration inquiries and claims in a timely manner which may require communication with customers, internal departments, contractors, other utilities, and public works managers.
• Act as a point of contact for federal, state, and local municipalities with regards to restoration.
• Utilize applications which includes but is not limited to: Microsoft applications, GIS, SAP, P6 Primavera, and other related applications.

Successful candidate must possess the following skills and abilities:

• Knowledge of applicable SOPs, practices, procedures, and federal/state/local regulations.
• Exceptional skills in Microsoft software, required compliance and/or tracking applications and systems.
• Strong planning, organizational, project, and systems management skills
• Ability to effectively manage costs, contractors, and schedules.
• Solid leadership, team building, written/verbal communications skills.
• Ability to manage conflict, problem-solve, motivate, and lead change.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in gas operations, including experience in a lead or in hard and soft surface restoration or related field.
• Minimum of 1 year leadership experience or advancing leadership duties.
• Experience working with state and local DOT specifications related to restoration.
• Demonstrated success in leadership role.
• Demonstrated success in systems and project management.
• High school diploma or GED; Associate's degree in a technical field preferred.

This position is considered a covered function regulated by 49 CFR Parts 192 (the pipeline safety rules), and is subject to random drug and alcohol testing.

Working Conditions:

• Daily travel to work sites of PNG, external customers and travel beyond Pittsburgh representing PNG.
• Perform Light work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally
• Office and Field environment. May be subject to extreme temperatures, noise, wet and/or humid conditions; mechanical, electrical, gas exposure hazards; fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases and/or poor ventilation atmospheric conditions.

Peoples, an Essential Utilities company, is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Equal employment opportunity is provided to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to the following legally protected characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions, including medical conditions related to lactation), physical or mental disability, covered-veteran status, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal law.

Peoples is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you have a condition that may prevent you from applying for a job online or need to request an accommodation during the interview process, please call (1-877-271-9012).

To maintain the integrity of the recruitment process and to avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest due to employment and/or assignment of family members and personal referrals, specific guidelines apply to the hiring and assignment of these individuals including, but not limited to:

• Family members cannot result in a supervisor/subordinate reporting relationship
• Family members cannot work in the same department.