Senior Engineer Outage Planning

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Houston, TX, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Energy • Renewable Energy
The Role
As a Senior Outage Planning Engineer, you will lead outage planning, ensuring efficient coordination of maintenance work and minimal operational impact. Responsibilities include developing plans, validating work orders, providing engineering support, and coordinating cross-regional execution.
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Posting End Date:

June 10, 2026

Employee Type:

Regular-Full time

Union/Non:

This is a non-union position

Step into a high-impact role where you’ll own the planning and execution of sophisticated outages that keep our assets running safely and optimally. As a Senior Outage Planning Engineer, you’ll bring together cross-functional teams, align priorities, and drive work readiness—ensuring critical maintenance and projects are delivered efficiently with minimal operational impact. If you’re energized by solving technical challenges, influencing across teams, and improving how work gets done, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful difference. Apply today!

Note: Internal title is Operations Specialist

What you Will Do:

  • Lead regional outage planning and coordination, partnering cross-functionally to prioritize and schedule work that improves asset availability and minimizes operational impact.

  • Develop integrated outage and maintenance plans, aligning scope, sequencing, resources, materials, and constraints with defined outage windows.

  • Review and validate work orders, job plans, and readiness requirements to ensure work is executable, technically sound, and properly supported.

  • Provide engineering and technical support by evaluating scopes, troubleshooting issues, and enabling safe, reliable, and efficient execution.

  • Coordinate outage execution, communications, and regional alignment, including calendars, updates, collaborator engagement, and cross-regional collaboration.

  • Serve as senior regional SME by supporting high-risk outages, governance forums, process improvement, mentoring, and long-term optimization of outage planning practices.

Who You Are:

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering.

  • Minimum six years of experience in pipeline operations, outage coordination, maintenance planning, engineering support, project support, or a related technical field.

  • Lead outage planning, scheduling, and stakeholder alignment for planned and emergent work.

  • Apply technical expertise to assess scopes, review plans, mitigate risks, and resolve issues.

  • Leverage solid understanding of maintenance planning, outage scheduling, and safe work practices.

  • Deliver results through strong organization, communication, and cross-functional leadership.

Working Conditions:

  • Office setting (80%).

  • Field setting (20%) travel throughout the Region and stakeholder locations.

  • Occasionally required to work long hours at short notice.

Physical Requirements include but are not limited to:

Grasping, kneeling, light – moderate lifting (objects up to 20 pounds), reaching above shoulder, repetitive motion, typing, sitting, standing, visual requirement (able to see screens, detect color coding, read fine print), hearing requirement and the ability to sit at a computer for long periods of time.
 

Mental Requirements (Both Field & Office) include but are not limited to:

Ability to: understand, remember and apply oral and/or written instructions or other information, understand complex problems and collaborate/explore alternative solutions, organize thoughts and ideas into understandable terminology, organize and prioritize work schedule on a short-term basis, make decisions which have moderate impact on the immediate work unit and monitor impact outside this area, understand and follow basic instructions and guidelines, complete routine forms, compose letters, outlines, memoranda and basic reports and communicate with individuals via telephone.

Benefits:

  • A flexible benefits program that allows each employee to select the level of coverage needed for their family in the areas of health, dental, insurance, and disability.

  • A paid maternity and parental leave benefit that offers up to 20 weeks of paid leave for birth-giving parents and up to 12 weeks for other eligible parents, providing flexibility and support during this important life event.

  • Valuable retirement savings plans, including a savings plan with company stock as an investment option.

  • Paid time off/vacation/sick, plus paid personal days off (depending on location), and paid holidays.

  • An Employee and Family Assistance Program.

  • A Wellness Program, which focuses on supporting healthier employees by providing tools, resources, and opportunities to improve physical, mental, social, and financial well-being.

  • Enbridge’s FlexWork (hybrid work model) offers eligible employees (Manager and below) the option to work from home on Wednesdays and Fridays, opt for a compressed workweek schedule, or have flexible start and end times. Role requirements determine your eligibility for each option. #LI-Hybrid

At Enbridge, we are dedicated to our core value of Inclusion. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified individuals, without regard to age, race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, veteran status, Indigenous status, disability, or any other reason protected by federal, state, or local law. Applicants with disabilities can request accessible formats, communication supports, or other accessibility assistance by contacting [email protected].

Information For Applicants:

  • Applications can be submitted via our online recruiting system only.

  • We appreciate your interest in working with us; however, only those applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.

  • Final candidates for this position may be required to undergo a security screening, including a criminal records check.

To learn more about us, visit www.enbridge.com

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering
  • Minimum six years of experience in pipeline operations, outage coordination, maintenance planning, engineering support, project support, or a related technical field
  • Solid understanding of maintenance planning and outage scheduling
  • Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills
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The Company
Calgary, Alberta
10,753 Employees

What We Do

Our name spells out our mission: a bridge to a cleaner energy future. That bridge safely connects millions of people around the world to the energy they rely on every day, fueling quality of life. Throughout our history, and especially today, we are looking beyond the horizon to invest in and build modern infrastructure, resilient communities and reliable energy. We operate across North America and beyond—powering industry, empowering society and safely delivering reliable, affordable sources of energy through our four core businesses: - Liquids pipelines - Natural gas pipelines, - Gas distribution and storage - Renewable energy

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