Planning Engineer
Sugar Land, TXAbout This Job
AdCode: 1455 Date: Apr 30, 2025 State: TX City: Sugar Land
Business Unit: Gulf Coast Utilities
Category: EngineeringJob Type:
OverviewThe Planning Engineer will plan for system improvements and capital needs of water and wastewater systems to ensure reliable delivery of service to our customers within the state.The engineer forecasts, analyzes, and plans water and wastewater systems and growth in accordance with local, state and federal regulations and ensures work is carried out in accordance with the corporate goals and philosophies.
What We Offer
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401k Company Match: 100% of the first 6% of your eligible compensation contributed to the Plan
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Vacation Accrual: Starting at 3 weeks per year
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Holidays: 10 company-paid holidays per year
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Floating Time: 16 hours of paid floating time per year
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Additional Benefit Plans include Medical, Dental, Vision, Company-Paid Life Insurance and more
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Training, Professional Certifications, and Education Allowance
What You'll Do
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This position will be willing and able to perform the following duties and others as assigned:
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Gathers, analyzes, and compiles highly technical data for the preparation of special reports to management and governmental agencies that may require specialized investigation and analysis within any of the major engineering principles. Obtains and presents engineering information and data to internal stakeholders. Resolves engineering related problems and explains new procedures and techniques, etc. Prepares memos, letters, reports, and other communications.
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Establishes and updates Risk and Resilience of systems and regularly updates risk matrices to determine relative importance of projects, providing input for short- and long-term planning needs.
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Visits system sites for condition assessments and coordinates with operations staff on system performance and issues.
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Provides recommendations and guidance within Engineering and to Area Supervisors based on system modeling for capacity needs for pipelines wells, storage, and treatment facilities.
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Prepares hydraulic analysis and water flow calculations and provides analysis for new and future developments.
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Ranks relative importance of projects through matrices and other methods to aid with the annual and long-range capital budget, both forecasting future equipment needs and planning cost-effective strategies formeeting those needs.
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Promotes safe working conditions and assures that safety standards are followed.
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May oversee work of contracted consultants depending on business needs.
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What You'll Bring
May have other job-related duties assigned by management.
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B.S. Degree in Civil, Mechanical, Sanitary, Environmental Engineering, or related is required.
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Ability to obtain a professional engineering license, preferably in the state of work. If licensed in another state, reciprocity license will be preferred within two years of hire.
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Has a minimum of two years of progressive experience in the water industry, including routine engineering responsibilities, preferably including project management capabilities of public works and/or water and wastewater utility projects.
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Experience with engineering modeling software for water and sewer systems, industry asset management practices, and general project management is preferred.
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Experience with water and wastewater system modeling software such as WaterCAD (or equivalent software) is desired.
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Work Environment
Experience using GIS map viewer software, and field data collection devices such as GPS, valve operating data, etc. is desirable.
Majority of time spent working indoors, under normal office conditions. May require moderate travel between work sites and use of specialized PPE will be worn for work tasks as required.
Nearest Major Market: Houston
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