Senior Engineer - Gas RCA

About the role

Puget Sound Energy is looking to grow its community with top talent. This position is within the Engineering Operations team and focuses on leading the Gas Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Program.

Responsibilities

• Lead the investigation of qualifying gas events, develop lessons learned, and drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance pipeline safety performance.
• Oversee the tracking and reporting of key program KPIs, outputs, and activities.
• Facilitate periodic stakeholder meetings, training, and OCM activities.
• Support the Quality Management department’s Gas Operations Quality Control program, including review of audit and investigation findings, support for RCA and corrective action development, and risk identification and mitigation activities.
• Update and maintain critical program documents and processes.
• Provide quality oversight to ensure all qualifying events and associated investigations follow program processes and expectations.
• Track qualifying events through their entire life cycle to ensure alignment with program requirements.
• Bring together stakeholders and leadership to initiate investigations/RCAs and establish the correct resources and priority.
• Drive program improvements through benchmarking activities and internal stakeholder engagement.
• Manage OCM needs for the program as processes, personnel, and requirements change.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree or Professional Engineer (PE) license in electrical, mechanical, civil, or other appropriate engineering field. A PE license may qualify in lieu of a degree.
• Substantial experience in planning, design, specification preparation, technical field work, project cost estimating, and scheduling (typically achieved after eight (8) or more years practice as a degreed engineer).
• Demonstrated organization, documentation, prioritization, and project management skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Desired Qualifications

• Natural gas utility engineering/operations experience.
• Knowledge of PSMS API RP 1173.
• Root Cause Analysis training and experience.
• Program Management experience.