Where: San Antonio, TX
Post date: Sept. 26, 2026
Description of the role:
- Attends seminars, continuing education opportunities for professional development
- Evaluates and recommends new standards, products, and/or services
- Recommends and implements improvements to processes and procedures
- May include limited supervisory responsibilities, including lower level engineers
- Makes frequent independent decisions and recommendations that affect the section, department, and/or division
- Participates in and provides input to area budget
- Actively works within financial objectives set by management
- Discipline expert to mentor and develop employees
- May sign and seal own engineering work and engineering work prepared by staff under his/her oversight
- Performs other project and process improvement initiatives as assigned
- Support cross-functional planning initiatives by partnering with internal stakeholders across generation, transmission, distribution, gas, operations, forecasting, finance, and other business units to evaluate system needs and identify engineering solutions.
- Analyzes technical, operational, and planning data to support long-range infrastructure strategies, capital investment prioritization, and system performance improvement efforts.
- Helps develop, refine, and document processes, assumptions, methodologies, and recommendations in support of new or evolving engineering and planning programs.
- Provides engineering input into complex, multi-disciplinary initiatives where requirements, processes, or program structure may be developing in real time.
- Prepares technical analyses, presentations, and recommendations for leadership and cross functional partners to support informed decision making.
- Identifies risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities across interconnected systems and recommends practical actions to improve reliability, efficiency, and value to customers.
Minimum qualifications:
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Texas Professional Engineer (PE) certification.
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Possesses and applies a broad knowledge of principles, practices and procedures.
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Demonstrated mastery of engineering discipline skills.
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Ability to lead cross-functional business initiatives and teams.
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Demonstrated ability to effectively handle a broad range of engineering assignments with minimum supervision.
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Ability to lead cross-functional teams on internal projects.
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Demonstrated ability to manage project costs, timeline, scope, and risks.
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Ability to effectively check work product for adequacy, quality and accuracy.
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Effective communication skills focused on understanding customer needs and developing resolution.
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Strong people skills, with bias for a collaborative working style.
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Ability to work call duty and occasional unscheduled work in the evenings, weekends, or holidays after experience level permits.
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Ability to travel occasionally, to off-site work, to seminars, manufacturing plant inspections, etc.
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Proficient in Microsoft Office Package, including word processing, spreadsheets, database, presentation software, electronic mail and scheduling.