Gas Controls Engineer

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

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• Must possess a valid Driver’s License and meet the company's requirements for driving.
• Relevant engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Electrical Engineering and Controls experience. 
• Professional Engineering (PE) license in the state of Wisconsin
• Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) and Telemetry experience
• Experience with pressure, temperature, flow instrumentation and knowledge of AGA gas flow measurement.
• Knowledge of Control Valves and PID control.
• AutoCAD, Rockwell software and/or Emerson ControlWave experience
• Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) experience
• Experience in construction and field practices as well as design, operation, maintenance and repair of natural gas distribution facilities. 
• Project management, planning, financial budgeting and report writing experience.