Gas Engineer

This postion is located in either Binghamton, NY or Rochester, NY. Relocation benefits available.

About the Company

Avangrid is a leading sustainable energy company transitioning America toward a clean and connected future. Our primary businesses are Networks, which serves 3.3 million electric and natural gas customers in the Northeast, as well as Renewables which is the third-largest renewable energy company in the U.S. with a diverse onshore and offshore renewable energy portfolio.

About the Role

As a Gas Senior Engineer - Gas Engineering System Planning, you will be the subject matter leader to system planning, provide engineering expertise for planning, design, operation and maintenance of the gas distribution and transmission systems. Providing strong engineering principles, industry knowledge and regulatory standards to develop engineered solutions and recommendations to enhance the safety and reliability of the natural gas transmission and delivery systems, including gate and regulator stations. Working across operating companies and states regulators on gas distribution and transmission planning matters.

Responsibilities

• Working under the direction of Lead and Principal Engineers, conduct complex hydraulic analyses regarding system capacity, safety, and reliability projects.
• Interface with Gas Supply and support Gas System Design and Gas Operations to troubleshoot and resolve short and long term issues within the gas system.
• Write technical engineering reports to summarize findings, and justify capital investments.
• Maintaining the Regulator Station and Gate Station Program by maintaining and updating the Asset Risk Assessment of gate station, regulator station, and primary valve records; evaluate stations and develop concept level station improvement plans including the specification of station equipment.
• Collaborating to develop and maintaining the 10 years budget for gas system planning plan.
• Interface with and provide engineering and system planning support with Gas Operations, Economic Development, Gas Supply, Gas Control, Customer Service, developers, municipalities, and government agencies.

Education details

• Bachelor of Science Degree or Engineering Technology Degree in Mechanical or Civil Engineering.
• Minimum 6 - 8 years of technical experience in gas engineering and/or related field
• Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) desirable. Professional Engineer (PE) preferred.
• Knowledge and experience in gas engineering and design, national and state code requirements and standards, and compliance requirements associated with API, ASTM , ASME, ANSI, 49 CFR Part 191 & Part 192, NYS Title 16 Chapter III and ISO 9001 desirable.

Required Skills

• Theoretical Engineering knowledge - Planning, Operations and Engineering Design, Analytic, modeling & Calculation, understanding the business model; Global View of the Business (Values cross-functional collaboration, understands importance of growing knowledge and developing relationships and links across the organization)
• Practical engineering experience/application - Planning, Operations and Engineering Design, Construction, (e.g. field experience, standardization "Perform economic analyses of engineering alternatives, develop business cases and defend in front of stakeholders.")
• Engineering documentation – Ability to adequately document and interpret engineering documentation
• Ability to review and approve engineering work done by others to ensure compliance with company standards, specifications, and contract requirements
• Knowledge of Regulatory and Compliance Environment – Local, State and Federal Regulatory Standards and requirements

Preferred Skills

• Experience working in a global company or matrix reporting organization
• Experience in related work, with emphasis on fluid mechanics and modeling

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