Engineer

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.

Duties of this position include:

• Network Design: Designing gas distribution systems, pipelines, and related infrastructure to meet capacity and safety requirements
• Capacity Assessment: Analyzing current and future gas demand to ensure that network can deliver gas without interruptions or bottlenecks.
• Safety Compliance: Ensuring that all gas systems meet regulatory safety standards and coordinating with relevant authorities for compliance.
• Optimization: Identifying opportunities to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of gas distribution networks
• Environmental Impact: Assessing the environmental impact of gas systems and recommending measures to reduce carbon footprint.
• Simulation and Modeling: Utilizing Synergi to predict the behavior of gas systems under different conditions
• Risk Assessment: Identifying potential risks and developing strategies to mitigate them, including emergency response plans.
• Collaboration: Working closely with cross-functional teams, including operations, design, sales, gas supply, and engineering to ensure the safe operations of gas systems.

Successful candidates will possess the following knowledge and skills:

• Exceptional skills in Microsoft or applicable software, engineering formulas, databases, and related calculations.
• Strong planning, writing, organizational, project and data management skills.
• Skilled analytical, problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Effective team leader skills, including written/verbal communications, and interpersonal relationships.

Successful candidates will possess the following knowledge and skills:

• Exceptional skills in Microsoft or applicable software, engineering formulas, databases, and related calculations.
• Strong planning, writing, organizational, project and data management skills.
• Skilled analytical, problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Effective team leader skills, including written/verbal communications, and interpersonal relationships.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function(s).

Minimum qualifications:

• 0-3 years’ experience in Gas Distribution, Operations, and/or Engineering.                          
• Good working knowledge of all operations-related equipment.                                   
• Demonstrated skill in presenting information in a concise, economic-based manner.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a field providing advanced analytical education required. Demonstrated related experience may be substituted for preferred education.
• Valid driver's license and ability to drive PNG Company Vehicles.

WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Perform sedentary work- exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.
• Working conditions may include travel to work sites of Essential Utilities/Peoples and/or other constituents (if applicable).

The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Utilities, Inc., 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.
Essential Utilities 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.