Emergency Manager - Electric

Location: Merrillville, IN, United States

Date Posted: Dec 24, 2025

Req ID: R00941558

Description

Job Summary

The Emergency Manager at NiSource is responsible for overseeing Emergency Preparedness & Response (EP&R) plans for the organization and providing support to the electric segment as a principal business partner. This role entails designing, updating, and maintaining EP&R strategies, ensuring the organization's readiness through emergency exercise drills and training sessions. The Emergency Manager will cultivate and manage relationships with key stakeholders, emergency response teams, and local and state governmental officials across the company's footprint. In addition, the Emergency Manager will collaborate within the six state service area, impacted shared services, and corporate centers to implement and enhance the Incident Command System, ensuring effective coordination and response during emergencies. This position plays a crucial role in safeguarding the organization's assets and ensuring the safety and well-being of employees and the communities served by NiSource.

Essential Functions

- Leader in Incident Execution: Support the Incident Commander in executing the EP&R plan during incidents. High level of organizational ability to manage data and people in an emergency setting.

- Training Strategy and Execution: Create, support, and execute overall emergency response training plans, including scenario exercises for all levels of incidents. Lead the incident management team in executing the plan with various states and operations groups.

- After Action Reviews: Lead the strategy for After Action Reviews and the corrective action process through completion, applying learnings to the emergency and incident command structure, and sharing changes with the organization as per API RP173 requirements.

- Technology Strategy Development: Create and support the development of the technology strategy for the maintenance, updates, and execution of emergency preparedness and response plans.

- Relationship Management: Build and maintain relationship strategies and plans across our footprint, including utility leaders, local emergency management agencies, public safety organizations, and other officials. Leading groups through projects where high collaboration with stakeholders is needed at many levels of the company. Collaboration across departments and states.

- Regulatory Compliance: Provide emergency preparedness and response information for filing plans with regulatory bodies.

- Continuous Improvement: Manage continuous improvements to emergency plans and processes activated during incidents. Collaborate with key stakeholders on such improvements.

- Plan Tracking and Updates: Track changes and improvements made to the emergency plans.

- Employee Role Management: Execute the process to identify, track, and update employees assigned to Incident Command System (ICS) roles.

- Record Retention: Ensure record retention of all incident-related documentation.

Required Qualifications For Position

- Bachelor’s degree in Emergency Management, Business Administration, Public Administration, Fire Administration, Political Science, or a related field is preferred.

- Leadership and supervisory skills required.

- Analytical skills required.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills required.

- Excellent interpersonal skills required.

- Problem-solving, decision-making, and clear communication of ideas, facts, and concepts to all company constituencies required.

- Ability to develop policies and procedures and engage with individuals from diverse cultures or backgrounds.

- Mental and physical ability to respond quickly to events and emergency situations throughout the service territory required.

- Availability 24/7, except while on approved leave, to respond to emergency situations via communication devices.

- Occasional evening and weekend work may be required.

- Subject to rotating on-call schedule.

- Designated as an essential employee and may be required to report to work during severe weather closures.

- Travel to various service territories and NiSource offices and facilities required.

- Valid driver's license required. Upon Hire

- Completion of ICS 100, 200, 300, 400, and NIMS 700 and 800 training required. Upon Hire

- State-level or IAEM Certified Emergency Manager certification required or must be obtained within twelve months of employment. within 1 Year

- Completion of the FEMA Professional Development Series (must be obtained within one year of employment) within 1 Year

Preferred Additional Qualifications for Position

- Seven (7) years professional job-related experience in management and/or strategic planning for emergency management programs may substitute for the required education.

- Certification or ability to obtain certification within twelve months of employment as a trainer for NIMS or ICS training and/or exercise practice is preferred. within 1 Year

Physical Demands

The preceding description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and responsibilities required of the position.

As a public utility, NiSource is required to provide continuous service to customers at all times. To ensure we fulfill that obligation, employees may be required to work outside their normal work hours and perform tasks outside of their normal responsibilities in support of emergency operations.

Work Authorization

Authorized to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship.

Workplace Connection

Value inclusion within your day to day responsibilities by respecting others perspectives/convictions, engaging others opinions, creating a safe environment where people, ideas, and opinions are valued within your Team/Customers and external partners.

Respect the unique lived experiences within your Team/Customers and external work partners by valuing different world views, challenges, and cultures that represents all walks of life and all backgrounds.

Treat others with respect and consideration. Actively participate in creating and contributing to a positive work environment.

Equal Employment Opportunity

NiSource is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in each of its companies to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, veteran status, disability, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth or related medical conditions), genetic information, citizenship status, or any protected group status as defined by law. Each employee is expected to abide by this principle.

By applying, you may be considered for other job opportunities.

ADA Accommodations

If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in any part of the hiring process or to perform the essential functions of the position, please contact OneHR at OneHR@nisource.com or 1-888-640-3320

Safety Statement

Promote a safe work environment by actively participating in all aspects of our employee safety program. Report any unsafe conditions and take actions to prevent personal injuries. Support our interdependent safety culture by ensuring the safety of your co-workers. Stay focused on the task at hand and promote productivity through good work habits.

E-Verify

NiSource participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify program. As part of this process, we provide the following notices to all job applicants: These documents inform you of your rights and responsibilities under U.S. law.

Salary Range*:

$129,500.00 - $194,300.00

- The salary offered to a candidate is based on several factors including but not limited to thecandidate’s skills, job-related knowledge, and relevant experience, as well as internal pay equity.

Posting Start Date:

2025-12-24

Posting End Date (if applicable):

2026-01-07

Please note that the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.

Summary

This role supports NIPSCO electric. The successful candidate is expected to report to the Merrillville office as a hybrid employee, Tuesday - Thursdays, with remote work Mondays and Fridays. This position is classified as essential and does require rotating call responsibilities.