Gas Standards Engineer (Entry, Staff, Senior, or Principal)

About the role

The Gas Standards Engineer develops, maintains, and improves engineering standards, procedures, specifications, and technical guidance that support the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of natural gas facilities. This position evaluates technical requirements, industry standards, regulations, materials, equipment, technologies, and work practices to determine their application to company operations. The engineer identifies risks and improvement opportunities from event findings, investigations, operating experience, and emerging industry trends and develops standards, procedures, specifications, and other controls to improve safety, reliability, and compliance.

The position works with Operations, Engineering, Compliance, Training, and other stakeholders to support risk-informed decisions and ensure consistent implementation of company standards. The engineer may lead technical projects, investigations, and continuous improvement initiatives and serves as a technical resource for gas transmission, distribution, and related operations.

Responsibilities

• Uses and applies technical standards, principles, theories, concepts, and techniques to perform activities/assignments of limited scope.
• Supports the development of technical documentation (including but not limited to designs, testing, calculations, reports, standards, etc.).
• Utilizes and may assist with the development of procedures.
• Provides ongoing technical support for project activities within areas such as Operations, Maintenance, Testing/diagnostics, Regulatory, etc.
• May provide field engineering oversight for activities such as commissioning, testing, inspections, etc. under direct supervision.
• Coordinates/leads projects or portions of projects (including phases such as research, design, equipment selection, procurement support, installation, and commissioning), under the direction of a higher-level engineer or supervisor.
• Under the direction of a higher-level engineer/supervisor, supports bid/evaluation processes by performing basic analysis and calculations on existing documentation and materials that support the preparation of bid documents.
• In completing segments of technical evaluations for proposals, may need to effectively communicate with other business areas of the company following appropriate processes.
• Effectively exchanges information in all formats, on matters having a wide range of importance and complexity both inter-organizationally and with outside customer/vendors.
• May coordinate the work of interns, drafters, technicians, and/or others and provides guidance and mentoring to less experienced engineers.
• Responsible for continuous self-development of technical skills and competencies.
• May perform activities such as budgeting, estimating, forecasting, accounting, work order management, in support of engineering projects.

Requirements

• Required bachelor's degree in engineering from ABET accredited curriculum.
• Ability to demonstrate the unique technical skills and core competencies for this engineering level established & documented by the organization.

Qualifications by Level

• Entry Engineer Level:
  • 0+ years relevant engineering experience.
  • Salary Range: $70,000-$86,667.
  • EIT/FE (Engineer in Training/Fundamentals of Engineering) preferred.
• Staff Engineer Level:
  • 2+ years relevant engineering experience.
  • Salary Range: $81,800-$106,267.
  • EIT/FE (Engineer in Training/Fundamentals of Engineering) strongly preferred.
• Senior Engineer Level:
  • 5+ years relevant engineering experience with EIT/FE (Engineer in Training/Fundamentals of Engineering) required; 7+ years relevant engineering experience without EIT/FE.
  • Salary Range: $97,000-$129,267.
  • PE (Professional Engineer) registration may be required depending on business need.
• Principal Engineer:
  • 9+ years relevant engineering experience with PE (Professional Engineer) registration required; 15+ years relevant engineering experience without PE.
  • Salary Range: $112,000-$156,600.

Preferred Experience

• Interpreting and applying technical, regulatory, industry, or company requirements to support engineering, operational, compliance, or risk-management activities.
• Developing, implementing, maintaining, or improving standards, procedures, specifications, technical guidance, or similar governance documents.
• Evaluating technical issues, risks, materials, equipment, technologies, or work practices and developing recommendations for improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across organizations and influence technical decisions involving multiple stakeholder groups.

Pay

The anticipated starting base pay for this position is $70,000.00 to $156,600.00 per year, commensurate with skills and experience.

Benefits

• Annual Incentive Program
• Medical/Pharmacy Plan
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Dependent Care Reimbursement Account
• Health Care Reimbursement Account
• Health Savings Account (HSA) (if enrolled in eligible health plan)
• Limited-Purpose FSA (if enrolled in eligible health plan and HSA)
• Transportation Reimbursement Account
• Short-term disability (STD)
• Long-term disability (LTD)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Fitness Center Reimbursement (if enrolled in eligible health plan)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit programs
• Employee recognition program
• Pension
• 401(k) plan
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Holidays
• Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO)
• Parental Leave

Benefit plans are subject to change and Xcel Energy has the right to end, suspend, or amend any of its plans, at any time, in whole or in part.