Gas Operations Director (Process)

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 - including a competitive and comprehensive benefits package as well as a commitment to career growth opportunities.

We are advocates for the communities we serve and are dedicated stewards of natural lands, protecting more than 7,600 acres of forests and other habitats throughout our footprint.

Our company is one of the most significant publicly traded water, wastewater service and natural gas providers in the U.S.

• Directs and manages operations activities and pipeline facilities to ensure safe, reliable, and regulatory compliant service
• Ensures adherence to policies and procedures that maintain protection of the environment and the health and safety of our employees, contractors, and the communities in which we operate and/or transport our product.
• Direct and manage Operations to meet or exceed the business goals for operational excellence and improved cost control, quality, reliability, safety, and productivity.
• Create a respectful, goal driven, team environment among the workforce (both union and nonunion) and develop supervisory and technical employees for roles of increasing responsibility and/or technical growth.
• Direct and ensure that safety, risk management, compliance requirements and customer commitments are incorporated into all department activities
• Set operational priorities, administer labor agreements and allocate resources to meet operational and business needs, while ensuring safe, reliable and compliance requirements.
• Interact regularly with other department leaders, operations related committees, union personnel, customers, vendors, contractors, PUC staff, etc. on an as-needed or scheduled basis.
• Lead reporting analysis and productivity metrics
• Control Capital and O&M budgets maintaining the Company's gas system while keeping expenditures to an allowable level.
• Develop initiatives, projects and/or SOPs to maintain and improve the operations in areas of safety, quality, cost reduction, customer service and productivity.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• In-depth knowledge of applicable operating systems (transmission, distribution, storage, etc.), procedures, key PUC/DOT/OSHA/CFR regulations and specific knowledge of the discipline (see experience/education).
• Exceptional skills in Microsoft software, required compliance and/or tracking systems.
• Advanced knowledge of excel and reporting systems
• Advanced analytical, judgement, and decision-making abilities.
• Exceptional leadership skills, including written/verbal communications, and interpersonal relationships.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement and high performance.

Experience

• Minimum of 10 years' experience in gas operations.
• Minimum of 5 years leadership experience and advancing leadership positions.
• Demonstrated success in leadership role.
• Demonstrated success in systems, operations (or applicable to specific field) management
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Management or similar required.
• Demonstrated related experience may be substituted for preferred education.

Essential Utilities, Inc., is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Equal employment opportunity is provided to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to the following legally protected characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions, including medical conditions related to lactation), physical or mental disability, covered-veteran status, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal law.
Essential Utilities is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you have a condition that may prevent you from applying for a job online or need to request an accommodation during the interview process, please call (1-877-271-9012).
To maintain the integrity of the recruitment process and to avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest due to employment and/or assignment of family members and personal referrals, specific guidelines apply to the hiring and assignment of these individuals including, but not limited to:

• Family members cannot result in a supervisor/subordinate reporting relationship
• Family members cannot work in the same department.