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.

The Planning Engineer will plan for system improvements and capital needs of water and wastewater systems to ensure reliable delivery of service to our customers within the state. The engineer forecasts, analyzes, and plans water and wastewater systems and growth in accordance with local, state and federal regulations and ensures work is carried out in accordance with the corporate goals and philosophies.

Primarily based at our Sugar Land, TX office in a hybrid role. May require up to 25% travel within the state of Texas.

• Paid Time Off:
  Starting at 3 weeks annually along with 11 company-paid 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.
• Employee Resource Groups (ERG): ERGs are voluntary employee groups that form based on shared characteristics or backgrounds and are sponsored by the organization.

This position will be willing and able to perform the following duties and others as assigned:

• Gathers, analyzes, and compiles highly technical data for the preparation of special reports to management and governmental agencies that may require specialized investigation and analysis within any of the major engineering principles.
• Obtains and presents engineering information and data to internal stakeholders.
• Resolves engineering related problems and explains new procedures and techniques, etc.
• Prepares memos, letters, reports, and other communications.
• 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.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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