Restoration Supervisor

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. We have a vision to provide valuable services to our customers, encourage economic growth for businesses, improve the quality of life for our communities, ensure environmental protection, and support our employees and partners.

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.

Responsibilities

• Supervise hard and soft surface restoration work related to the construction and maintenance of gas distribution facilities, including all related projects, resource management, and customer involvement.
• Ensure work is conducted safely, reliably, timely, and within compliance to all internal, federal, state, and local statutes and regulations.
• Team with internal departments and contractors to ensure safety goals, SOPs, regulations, and best practices are applied to all restoration processes.
• Plan, schedule, assign, and monitor the restoration work related to pipeline operations.
• Review contractor productivity and quality; monitor performance and contractor allocation.
• Pre-inspect jobs documenting existing conditions; conduct post-project inspections to ensure proper restoration is being performed.
• Team with construction to review any change in scope of restoration and complete required paperwork.
• Monitor and review contractor activities to ensure compliance with local ordinances.
• Monitor budget goals; review and approve invoices.
• Investigate, resolve, and respond to restoration inquiries and claims in a timely manner, which may require communication with customers, internal departments, contractors, other utilities, and public works managers.
• Act as a point of contact for federal, state, and local municipalities with regards to restoration.
• Utilize applications which include but are not limited to: Microsoft applications, GIS, SAP, P6 Primavera, and other related applications.

Requirements

• Knowledge of applicable SOPs, practices, procedures, and federal/state/local regulations.
• Exceptional skills in Microsoft software, required compliance and/or tracking applications and systems.
• Strong planning, organizational, project, and systems management skills.
• Ability to effectively manage costs, contractors, and schedules.
• Solid leadership, team building, written/verbal communications skills.
• Ability to manage conflict, problem-solve, motivate, and lead change.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in gas operations, including experience in a lead or in hard and soft surface restoration or related field.
• Minimum of 1 year leadership experience or advancing leadership duties.
• Experience working with state and local DOT specifications related to restoration.
• Demonstrated success in leadership role.
• Demonstrated success in systems and project management.
• High school diploma or GED; Associate's degree in a technical field preferred.

This position is considered a covered function regulated by 49 CFR Parts 192 (the pipeline safety rules), and is subject to random drug and alcohol testing.

Working Conditions

• Daily travel to work sites of PNG, external customers, and travel beyond Pittsburgh representing PNG.
• Perform light work - exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally.
• Office and field environment; may be subject to extreme temperatures, noise, wet and/or humid conditions, mechanical, electrical, gas exposure hazards, fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, and/or poor ventilation atmospheric conditions.