Senior Manager, Gas Engineering

Liberty; Platte City (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty Utilities in Platte City, MO, is seeking a Senior Manager, Gas Engineering to lead a team delivering gas infrastructure design and capital projects. You will guide resource planning, integrity management, regulatory compliance, and system expansion initiatives that impact safety, reliability, and growth.

The role blends technical leadership with people leadership, shaping long-term capital investment strategies while developing engineering talent and ensuring adherence to Liberty

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering projects, capital programs, or technical teams.
• Strong knowledge of natural gas distribution, transmission, and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to influence strategy, manage risk, and develop talent.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineering professionals responsible for gas infrastructure design and delivery.
• Oversee engineering support for distribution, transmission, pipeline replacement, and asset remediation programs.
• Guide planning and execution of large-scale capital projects.
• Support integrity management, regulatory compliance, and system reliability initiatives.
• Drive engineering standards, policies, and best practices across the organization.
• Collaborate with operations, asset management, regulatory, and executive leadership teams.
• Influence long-term infrastructure planning and capital investment strategies.
• Develop future engineering talent through coaching, mentoring, and succession planning.
• Represent engineering expertise during regulatory proceedings and strategic initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Regulatory knowledge

Communication

Mentoring

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. (AQN), parent company of Liberty, is a diversified international generation, transmission, and distribution utility. AQN is committed to providing safe, reliable, and cost-effective energy and water solutions through our portfolio of utility investments to over one million customer connections, largely in the United States and Canada.

At Algonquin, our vision is to be the most trusted utility service provider in North America – a premium regulated utility, known for our customer focus, commitment to sustainability, and strong community partnerships. Our employees are at the heart of that vision. We believe that when people are empowered to learn, grow, and contribute their ideas, we can achieve remarkable results together.

We are building a culture that values integrity, inclusivity, and innovation. By joining Algonquin, you’ll be part of a team that is shaping the future of energy and water, while creating long-term value for our customers, communities, employees, and shareholders.

Why This Role?

Lead a team responsible for engineering strategy, capital delivery, system expansion, and integrity initiatives supporting Liberty's natural gas infrastructure.

Are you an engineering leader who wants to influence both strategy and execution across a growing natural gas utility?

As Senior Manager, Gas Engineering, you'll lead a team responsible for engineering design, capital project delivery, resource planning, integrity management support, and system expansion initiatives that directly impact the safety, reliability, and growth of our gas infrastructure.

This role combines technical leadership, people leadership, and strategic planning. You'll guide engineering decisions that shape the future of our gas distribution and transmission systems while developing the engineering talent that supports them.

Unlike many engineering leadership positions focused solely on administration, this role provides meaningful involvement in major infrastructure programs, system modernization efforts, regulatory requirements, asset management strategies, and large-scale capital investments.

In This Role, You Will:

• Lead and develop a team of engineering professionals responsible for gas infrastructure design and delivery
• Oversee engineering support for distribution, transmission, pipeline replacement, and asset remediation programs
• Guide the planning and execution of large-scale capital projects
• Support integrity management, regulatory compliance, and system reliability initiatives
• Drive engineering standards, policies, and best practices across the organization
• Collaborate with operations, asset management, regulatory, and executive leadership teams
• Influence long-term infrastructure planning and capital investment strategies
• Build and develop future engineering talent through coaching, mentoring, and succession planning
• Represent engineering expertise during regulatory proceedings and strategic initiatives

Why Platte City?

Located just north of Kansas City, Platte City offers the benefits of a growing metropolitan area while maintaining a strong sense of community and exceptional quality of life.

Employees enjoy:

• Access to the Kansas City metro area
• Affordable housing compared to many major engineering markets
• Excellent schools and family-friendly communities
• Short commute times
• Convenient access to Kansas City International Airport
• Professional opportunities within a growing utility organization

Accountabilities:

• Directs and supports direct reports responsible for the planning, management, execution and implementation of projects, inclusive of the day-to-day project management, scope management, and issue and risk management.
• Responsible for overseeing engineering solution design, analysis and resource estimation, ensuring that team members understand and consistently apply Liberty processes and standards to deliver quality engineering solutions
• Involved in the development of engineering and asset management policies, standards and procedures.
• Lead team to achieve departmental goals by providing technical guidance and direction, as well as hands-on resource and project management
• Leads the embedding of enterprise processes within their department - engaging staff to continuously improve upon process implementation and design
• Ensure that all staff are in compliance and certified to do their job; accountable to ensure staff have any required certifications
• People Development: responsible for success planning and talent development. Implement action plans as needed.
• Act as a change leader; role model new change; demonstrate new ways of working.
• Work with the other areas of Liberty Utilities to drive consistency and sharing of best practice in the engineering and design of the gas distribution and transmission systems.
• Works with staff across Engineering and Operations to understand, prioritize, and plan for system improvements, system maintenance programs, and major system maintenance initiatives.
• Provides effective and innovative engineering design solutions to allow efficient construction and maintenance and to optimize life cycle.
• Leads development of 1–3-year plans for system expansions and reinforcements in accordance with established strategies, good engineering practice, and jurisdictional requirements. Expertise in capital portfolio management – incl. definition and analysis of capital projects, business case, IRP & capital plan
• Ability to identify and analyze compliance-driven engineering requirements
• Provide technical expertise to various parts of the organization as requested including testimony to regulatory bodies and due diligence activities.
• Ensure quality assurance and control processes are embedded in ways of working and are implemented consistently to monitor and manage business and operations risk
• Oversees project management of large-scale capital projects (Project plan, risk/issue/dependency mgmt., regulatory case, financial mgmt.)
• Applies knowledge of engineering & GIS data management best practices to instill processes and culture that support effective data management across the utility.

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a closely related technical field
• 5+ years of experience in natural gas utility, pipeline, or utility infrastructure engineering
• Experience leading engineering projects, capital programs, or technical teams
• Working knowledge of gas distribution, transmission, integrity management, and regulatory requirements
• Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to balance engineering, operational, regulatory, and business priorities
• PE license preferred

What We Offer:

As a valued member of our team, you will enjoy competitive pay that reflects your skills and experience. You will also have access to a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage & a 401K plan, effective day one
• Annual bonus
• Life insurance and short-term & long-term disability
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Free Employee Assistance Program & Headspace account
• Reward & recognition programs, service awards, a great company culture, and a collaborative & flexible work environment

Our purpose is sustaining energy and water for life, and it is demonstrated in everything we do as a business and as an employee team.

As the successful candidate

Our Mission

We provide safe, secure, reliable, cost-effective and sustainable energy and water solutions. Our mission is how we create value as an organization—it is what drives us every day to fulfill our purpose.

Our Vision

We better the lives of our customers and communities. Our vision is what we see as possible. It's where we aspire to be, what we want to achieve and how we'll make animpact. It guides and keeps us on the right path as we work towards fulfilling our purposes.

• Customer Centric
• Integrity
• Teamwork
• Outcome focused
• Continuous learning

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role and are not confident you meet all the qualification requirements, we encourage you to apply to investigate the opportunity further.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value each person's unique background, diversity, experiences, perspectives and talents.

Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all our employees and expect each of our employees to honor this commitment in their daily responsibilities.