Senior Planning Engineer

For over 50 years, Texas Water Utilities has been a trusted provider of water and wastewater utility services. Today, we serve over 143,000 customers in 207 Texas communities. Our service area reaches throughout the state of Texas from Mitchell County in central Texas to Matagorda on the Gulf Shores. It all starts with our people – proud members of their communities, dedicated to delivering safe, reliable, and cost-effective water utility services.

Overview:
The Sr Planning Engineer is responsible for strategic long-term water and wastewater system planning and recommending projects or approaches to address complex issues related to source of supply, treatment, storage, pumping and transmission of water and wastewater.

What We Offer:

• Paid Time Off: Starting at 3 weeks annually along with 11 company-paid holidays and 2 floating holidays
• Health and Wellness Benefits: The first day of the month after your start, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well.
• 401(k) Program with Matching Contribution: We offer a 100% match on contributions up to 4% of your salary, plus an additional 3% employer contribution.
• Grow With Us: Professional development opportunities through training, professional certifications, and education allowance.
• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include company provided life insurance and Employee Assistance Program just to name a few

What You'll Do:

Essential Functions:
•    Coordination and preparation of strategic water and wastewater system planning studies (comprehensive or targeted, issue-based studies as appropriate) as assigned.
•    Preparation and maintenance of asset investment plans and strategic capital expenditure plans as assigned. Plans to accurately address operational needs, operational efficiencies, asset management and strategic investment goals set by the leadership based upon prioritization models.    
•    System capacity evaluations, analysis of source, treatment, distribution/collection, pumping & storage, or other system deficiencies as assigned to support ongoing operations, service extension requests or regional growth opportunities. 
•    Ability to serve as a competent technical resource on Water and Wastewater System Planning matters including capital planning, safe yield analysis, demand/load projections, treatment adequacy, collection, transmission and distribution adequacy, computerized hydraulic modeling and analysis, water conservation, regionalization, and other pertinent subjects as needed to support operational and business needs. 
•    Presents results of engineering analysis to interested parties within and outside of the company, presentations to Regulatory agencies and Senior Management. 
•    Establishes and updates Risk and Resilience of systems and regularly updates risk matrices to determine relative importance of projects, providing input for short- and long-term planning needs.
•    Visits system sites for condition assessments and coordinates with operations staff on system performance and issues.
•     Provides recommendations and guidance within Engineering and to Area Supervisors based on system modeling for capacity needs for pipelines wells, storage, and treatment facilities.
•    Prepares hydraulic analysis and water flow calculations and provides analysis for new and future developments.
•    Ranks relative importance of projects through matrices and other methods to aid with the annual and long-range capital budget, both forecasting future equipment needs and planning cost-effective strategies for meeting those needs.
•    Promotes safe working conditions and assures that safety standards are followed.
•    May oversee work of contracted consultants depending on business needs.
•    May have other job-related duties assigned by management.

What You'll Bring:

Education
•    Bachelor’s degree in engineering. 
•    Advanced Management or Technical Degree preferred.
 Experience
•    8+ years’ experience in water resources planning.
Nice to Have
•    Experience with engineering modeling software for water and sewer systems, industry asset management practices, and general project management is preferred.
•    Experience with water and wastewater system modeling software such as WaterCAD (or equivalent software) is desired.
•    Experience using GIS map viewer software, and field data collection devices such as GPS, valve operating data, etc. is desirable
Certifications/Licenses
•    Professional Engineering (PE) license required.
•    Driver’s License required

Work Environment:

Employee works in a climate-controlled office environment shared by other employees.

We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any characteristic or condition protected by Federal, state, or local law. 

We are an E-Verify participating employer.