Gas Operations Manager

Peoples, an Essential Utilities company, has been proudly serving Western Pennsylvania for over 130 years, offering talented individuals the opportunity to serve more than 700,000 customers in the region. Peoples is more than your average natural gas utility. We have a vision to:

• Provide valuable services to our customers
• Encourage economic growth for businesses in our region
• Improve the quality of life for our communities
• Ensure that we are protecting our environment
• Support our employees and partners

Join our team and make a difference!

About Essential Utilities

Essential Utilities, Inc. delivers safe, clean, reliable services that improve quality of life for individuals, families, and entire communities.

Operating as the Aqua (water and wastewater services) and the Peoples and Delta (natural gas) brands, Essential serves approximately 5.5 million people across 10 states. We are committed to sustainable growth, operational excellence, a superior customer experience, and premier employer status - including a competitive and comprehensive benefits package as well as a commitment to career growth opportunities.

We are advocates for the communities we serve and are dedicated stewards of natural lands, protecting more than 7,600 acres of forests and other habitats throughout our footprint.

Our company is one of the most significant publicly traded water, wastewater service and natural gas providers in the U.S.

Manager, Gas Operations - O&M (North Division)

Posting will come down EOD Monday June 26th

Incumbents are focused on either Pipeline Construction or Distribution Operations areas. Plans, manages, and coordinates field and support activities related to pipeline construction or Distribution operations and maintenance within a Region to ensure safe, reliable, and regulatory compliant service. Responsible for the area's O&M or capital budget, safety, customer focus, and development of supervisory personnel. Teams with all areas of company with regard to restoration of service and emergency response.

Principle (Essential) Duties

• Plans, manages, and coordinates all gas distribution and transmission field activities and pipeline facilities within an Operating Region to ensure safe, reliable, and regulatory compliant service.
• Ensures adherence to policies and procedures that maintain protection of the environment and the health and safety of our employees, contractors, and the communities in which we operate and/or transport our product.
• Manage the Region's Operations to meet or exceed the business goals for operational excellence and improved cost control, quality, reliability, safety, and productivity.
• Create a respectful, goal driven, team environment among the workforce (both union and nonunion) and develop supervisory and technical employees for roles of increasing responsibility and/or technical growth.
• Manage, develop, and/or define deliverable commitments, their corresponding schedule and resource requirements at appropriate intervals regarding work-in-progress any operations problems or delays.
• Set operational priorities, administer labor agreements and allocate resources to meet operational and business needs, while ensuring safe, reliable and compliance requirements.
• Interact regularly with other department leaders, operations related committees, union personnel, customers, vendors, contractors, PUC staff, etc. on an as-needed or scheduled basis.
• Control assigned budgets constructing and maintaining the Company's gas system while keeping expenditures to an allowable level.
• Directs supervisory personnel and subcontractors engaged in planning and executing work procedures, interpreting specifications.

Budget Responsibility

• Total Operations Department O&M Budgets and Projects of approximately $130MM OR Capital expenditures of approximately $100MM (Joint responsibility with Engineering). Regional O&M-$20-30MM and capital $20-30MM
• Manage all department activities and resource to ensure maximum benefit is achieved for all resources expended.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• In-depth knowledge of applicable operating systems (transmission, distribution, storage, etc.), procedures, key PUC/DOT/OSHA/CFR regulations and specific knowledge of the discipline (see experience/education).
• Exceptional skills in Microsoft software, required compliance and/or tracking systems.
• Advanced analytical, judgement, and decision-making abilities.
• Exceptional leadership skills, including written/verbal communications, and interpersonal relationships.

Experience/Education Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years' experience in gas operations or construction.
• Minimum of 5 years leadership experience and advancing leadership positions.
• Demonstrated success in leadership role.
• Demonstrated success in systems, operations (or applicable to specific field) management.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Management or similar required.
• Valid driver's license and ability to drive PNG vehicles.
• Also, additional duties may be added to particular positions and may be short to long term additions, depending on the needs of PNG.

NOTE: This position may be specifically defined by specialty (e.g., Transmission and Distribution, Storage and Supply, etc.); as such, specific in-depth experience in the specialty will be a requirement if so designated.

Peoples, an Essential Utilities company, is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Equal employment opportunity is provided to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to the following legally protected characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions, including medical conditions related to lactation), physical or mental disability, covered-veteran status, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal law.
Peoples is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you have a condition that may prevent you from applying for a job online or need to request an accommodation during the interview process, please call (1-877-271-9012).

To maintain the integrity of the recruitment process and to avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest due to employment and/or assignment of family members and personal referrals, specific guidelines apply to the hiring and assignment of these individuals including, but not limited to:

• Family members cannot result in a supervisor/subordinate reporting relationship
• Family members cannot work in the same department.