What are the responsibilities and job description for the Gas Controls Engineer position at WEC Energy Group?
WEC Energy Group is one of the nation’s largest electric generation, distribution and natural gas delivery holding companies. We employ over 7,000 people in our energy companies and service subsidiaries. As a Fortune 500 company, we value and develop our employees who are making a difference in a mission that matters.
Wisconsin Public Service, a subsidiary of WEC Energy Group, is seeking an Gas Controls Engineer for our Green Bay, Milwaukee, or Pewaukee, Wisconsin locations. This position offers a flexible work arrangement (remote / hybrid) with time spent in the office.
This position is part of a job family (Associate Engineer, Engineer, Senior Engineer, and Principal Engineer) where experience will be the determining factor.
Job Summary
The Engineer position is responsible for specifying and developing the hardware and software associated with the Company’s natural gas field instrumentation and controls. The Engineering role supports safe, reliable and compliant facility operations (49 CFR.192) at Wisconsin Public Service and Minnesota Energy Resources.
The Engineer will also be responsible for developing project plans for the installation and maintenance of electronic monitoring associated with the Company’s SCADA system and for providing technical support for a number of critical functions at natural gas town border stations and district regulator stations. The Engineer will manage projects that may be cross-functional in nature, complex, involve multiple stakeholders and have a medium to high degree of risk. Plans and conducts work requiring judgement in the independent evaluation, selection and substantial adaptation and modification of standard techniques, procedures and criteria; devises new approaches to problems encountered.
Job Responsibilities
- Primary responsibilities of the Engineer is to support the management of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Distributed Control Systems (DCS) and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC).
- Support training field technicians with testing and maintenance of safety systems, process controls, and communications.
- Support / train field technicians with calibration of transmitters, meters, level sensors etc.
- Work closely with WEC IT to manage Cyber Security processes and procedures.
- Support gas control and field technicians in troubleshooting operational issues such as communications, instrumentation and control systems.
- Support capital and maintenance project planning and execution.
- Applies current methods to monitor and evaluate system performance and equipment condition in order to develop system plans which will minimize life cycle costs, while maintaining reliability, safety, performance and regulatory compliance.
- Has full technical and financial responsibility for planning, developing, organizing, coordinating, and scheduling a wide variety of engineering projects.
- Responsible for the preparation of specifications and review of bids in support of engineering projects.
- Responsible for identifying and executing improvement of existing programs, practices, and procedures through continuous process improvement techniques.
- Interacts with other business units, vendors, regulatory agencies and authorized inspectors to ensure regulatory compliance.
- Provides technical expertise, leadership, direction and training in various work groups.
- Participate on the engineer and supervisor on call list to provide computer support for natural gas field emergencies.
- This position will support both the Wisconsin and Minnesota service territories and will require travel to these locations.
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
