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Southern Company

Project Engineer, II

Company: 
Southern Company
City: 
Glen Ellyn
State: 
Illinois
Occupational fields: 
Architecture and Engineering
Employment type: 
Full time
Remote Position: 
No
Required degree level: 
Other

Job Summary:
This position is an exciting opportunity for engineers who enjoy the challenges and responsibilities of overseeing and supporting the construction of natural gas transmission and distribution facilities. The right candidate must be a self-starter and able to make sound decisions. Incumbents in this role provide project-level technical support and administer external resources who construct gas utility infrastructure, while delivering on financial and operating objectives. The Project Engineer promotes quality and safety expectations and ensures that those standards are met within a functional area.

Functional Expertise:

  • Support the development of technical procedures, projects, and engineering designs related to natural gas pipelines, regulator stations and associated appurtenances by interacting with staff and performing quality reviews to ensure designs meet PHMSA, State, and Company standards
  • Makes decisions in the field and coordinates with internal and/or external service providers and support departments (Engineering, System Operations, System Planning, Integrity Management and Material Standards) to ensure that work is performed as planned and in accordance with applicable codes and standards
  • Inspects Construction (safety, compliance, quality, materials, locates and restoration)
  • Reviews and approves reports, field changes, material requests, and as-built records to ensure compliance and company standards and policies.
  • Develops commissioning/retirement operating routines
  • Updates as necessary, Management, Engineering, and other applicable stakeholders on project progress


Business Acumen:

  • Support the design of engineering solutions that provide the most efficient and cost-effective long-term solutions for ongoing issues with the Company's natural gas system
  • Ensure that applicable requirements and standards for reporting are followed
  • Assure compliance with Company policies & procedures
  • Identify and properly manage project risk


Engagement:

  • Collaborate with Construction Operations, System Operations, Engineering, GIS and Asset Data Services, System Integrity and System Planning leaders to produce effective solutions and designs
  • Attend regular department and project meetings
  • Influences external contractors who represent the company by shadowing corporate values.
  • Track project metrics to identify project risks


Driving Results:

  • Establishes and monitors work goals and objectives. Measures performance and sets safety, quality, and productivity metrics.
  • Creates and/or implements improved processes and techniques to enhance operating environments.
  • Establishes and monitors work goals and objectives. Measures performance and sets safety, quality, and productivity metrics.
  • Creates and/or implements improved processes and techniques to enhance operating environments.
  • Establishes and monitors work goals and objectives. Measures performance and sets safety, quality and productivity metrics.
  • Creates and/or implements improved processes and techniques to enhance operating environments.


Qualifications
Intermediate Project Engineer:
Education and Experience:
Required:

Required:

  • BS in recognized engineering discipline from an ABET accredited institution


Preferred: Engineer-in-Training (EIT) Certification

Skills:

  • Project Management
  • Ability to communicate with all levels in the organization
  • Ability to influence and persuade in decision making
  • Computer Assisted Design/Geographic Information System - intermediate proficiency
  • MS Office - advanced proficiency


Certifications/Licenses:

  • Preferred: Engineer in Training (EIT) or Project Management Professional (PMP)


Working Conditions/Physical Requirements:

  • The incumbent will be exposed to varying outdoor weather conditions.
  • The incumbent will be exposed to construction related activities including walking of construction sites
  • This position occasionally requires prolonged standing or walking.
  • This position occasionally requires the incumbent to reach above shoulder-level.
  • This position occasionally requires the incumbent to climb in/out of excavations, kneel, bend, and climb ladders to inspect pipeline construction activity.
  • This position requires the ability to lift up to 25 pounds.
  • Local travel with occasional overnight travel
  • Keyboarding
  • The incumbent may be exposed to fumes, airborne particles, or chemicals and provided proper PPE.
  • The incumbent may be exposed to excessive noise and provided proper PPE.
  • This position requires the use of a Company vehicle.
  • After hours duty supervision required.

Together with our subsidiaries, we deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to our 9 million customers. Our focus is doing so with service excellence.

That means we are leaders who take action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. We create community value through energy, social, economic, and environmental progress.

We do this through electric operating companies in three states and natural gas distribution companies in four. Our family of companies draw on diverse energy sources to create the best mix for our service areas, including electricity, natural gas, solar power, carbon-free nuclear, and other sustainable sources.

We leverage our leading distributed energy infrastructure company and other innovative technology to better serve every customer. Our competitive, national generation company serves wholesale customers, and our family includes a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services.

We have positioned diversity and inclusion as critical to our success enabling us to put the needs and well-being of the people we serve at the center of all that we do.

Southern Company believes all employees should feel welcome, valued, respected and heard. Our goal is a workplace in which all employees contribute to their fullest and a workforce that reflects our customers and communities. We accomplish this by valuing and leveraging the full range of differences and similarities we bring to our teams, customers and communities.

Workplace Awards

  • 2023 100% Corporate Equality Index Score - Human Rights Campaign (7th consecutive year)
  • 2023 America's Best-In-State Employers – Forbes
    • Southern Company (No. 1 in Alabama, No. 5 in Georgia)
  • 2023 Best Employers for Women (No. 9) - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces – Newsweek
  • 2023 Best Companies for Multicultural Women – Seramount
  • 2023 Top 50 Companies for Diversity - DiversityInc (8th consecutive year)
    • No. 1 Top Company for Black executives
    • No. 3 Top Company for Veterans
    • No. 5 Top Company for Supplier Diversity
    • No. 14 - Top Company for Executive Diversity Councils
  • 2022 Global 200 – Forbes
  • 2022 Best Employers for Women - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Best Employers for Diversity - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity - Newsweek
  • 2023 America’s Best Large Employers – Forbes
    • No. 15 overall, top utility
  • 2023 Top 100 Military-Friendly Employer (No. 2) - GI Jobs magazine
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