Join the diverse and dynamic team that powers Michigan’s largest energy provider and one of the nation’s largest gas and electric combination utilities. Consumers Energy services 6.7 million of Michigan’s 10 million residents – caring for our friends and neighbors in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties. We embrace a cleaner and leaner utility vision focused on eliminating energy waste and adding renewable energy from sources such as wind and solar.
At Consumers Energy, we offer more than just a place to work. We foster a culture that supports career development, growth, and stability, and we take pride in offering our co-workers excellent benefits and compensation packages. We are deliberately creating an inclusive culture that makes our diverse team of co-workers feel valued, supported, and empowered every day. We’re a company made up of thousands of people, all with different stories to share and work to do, but we stand united in our company purpose: world class performance delivering hometown service.
Department Summary
This position is within Energy Delivery / Gas Asset Management / Engineering Asset Planning and will report to the Delivery Planning Lead. The individualts are responsible for proactive review of delivery enhancements across the assets and optimizing the solutions. They will link between strategy and engineering to make sure the engineering solutions meet the needs of the overall gas system. Each enginener will be responsible for a different asset class, which include Metering and Regulation, Distribution, and Storage/Compression/Transmission. They will be responsible for coordination of muiltple projects in current and future years to ensure project schedules and system requirements are aligned. These Engineers will also have responsibility of helping to build the future financial plans to ensure long term buisinee plan deployment inputs align with future project and system outage schedules.
Job Description/Responsibilities
- Evaluate identified jobs across asset classes, maximize and coordinate work with major projects. Projects would include all asset classes within the natural gas system.
- Review results of outage analysis and complex operating procedures
- Financial projects review, budgeting entry/review, business rate case testimony & witness support
- Support of Natural gas Delivery Plan outlook and evaluation (1-10 years out). High level Engineering resources alignment with investment plan
- Evaluate and own standards/processes/job aids for Delivery Planning strategies
Requirements/Qualifications
- Bachelor of Engineering from an ABET Accredited Program
- In lieu of an Engineering Degree, an Associate’s degree in a scientific/technical field with 5 – 7 years of applicable experience OR extensive years of applicable experience (10+ years) that demonstrate required abilities and performance may be acceptable
- Be familiar with Natural Gas system (storage, compression, transmission, regulation, distribution) and their integration
- Communication skills
- Waste Elimination Principles
- Ability to manage multiple tasks
- Negotiation skills
The following skills may set you apart
- Project management and controls background and certification (PMP)
- Procedure writing and reviews
- Design background in the natural gas space
- Rate case background
- History of proactively planning
- Expertise in the integration of the natural gas system
- Knowledge of federal and state gas code
- Financial experience-budgetary experience
Essential Functions
- Ensure Project Engineering, Engineering Planning, Finance, and Strategy departments/stakeholders are aligned and in agreement with current and future year asset plans 1-10 years in advance
- Align high level engineering resources with the natural gas delivery workplans
- Support enterprise resource planning process
- Establish standard work
- Continuous process improvement
- Become a subject matter expert for technical review of projects, outage plans, and complex operating procedures
- Ability to solve complex technical problems; taking new perspectives using existing solutions
- Ability to meet and manage multiple deadlines
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities
- Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite, including Teams
