Instrumentation & Electrical Controls Supervisor (Gas)

Instrumentation & Electrical Controls Supervisor (Gas)

As the Instrumentation & Electrical Controls Supervisor, you will lead a team of skilled professionals responsible for the installation, programming, maintenance, calibration, testing, troubleshooting, and repair of instrumentation, control, and electrical systems. You will oversee daily operations, employee development, maintenance initiatives, and capital improvement projects while ensuring adherence to safety standards, regulatory requirements, and operational best practices. This role is critical to providing safe, reliable, and efficient service across utility operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop staff: Coach and evaluate employees; manage assignments, schedules, performance, and corrective actions. Support technical training, apprenticeships, certifications, and skills assessments
• Oversee instrumentation and controls: Direct maintenance, calibration, testing, and repair of process transmitters, electric and pneumatic actuators and positioners, communications equipment, PLCs, DCS, RTUs, and solar-powered and hardwired telemetry
• Supervise electrical work: Oversee installation and maintenance of motor control centers (MCCs), variable frequency drives (VFDs), conduit, wiring, and related equipment. Support system design and integration
• Manage maintenance resources: Prioritize preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance; coordinate staffing, schedules, tools, materials, and replacement parts
• Support system reliability: Lead outage activities, inspections, testing, emergency response, and special projects. Provide advanced troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
• Drive continuous improvement: Strengthen maintenance strategies, work processes, and procedures while promoting safety and accountability
• Maintain compliance: Ensure adherence to regulations, permits, codes, safety and health programs, cybersecurity protocols, organizational policies, and industry best practices
• Support gas regulatory requirements: Maintain current employee Gas Operator Qualifications and the IE&C section of the Gas Operations and Maintenance Manual to meet applicable PHMSA requirements
• Support budgets and planning: Forecast staffing, maintenance, equipment, and supply needs; maintain records, reports, and performance metrics
• Coordinate contracts and projects: Develop technical specifications, administer service contracts, oversee contractor performance, and coordinate capital projects, upgrades, and expansions with departments, vendors, and regulators

Who you are....

• Strong knowledge of industrial instrumentation, control systems, PLCs, RTUs, DCS, SCADA/HMI systems, electrical distribution, MCCs, and VFDs.
• Experience leading maintenance and operations teams in an industrial, utility, manufacturing, or process-control environment.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, coordinate resources, and improve operational performance.
• Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and project management skills.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance and perform other duties as assigned.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (2/3 or more of the time) to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Sedentary work. Even though the weight lifted may be of only negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those is negligible.
• Positions in this class typically require climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions. Incumbents may be subjected to moving mechanical parts, vibrations, fumes, odors, dusts, gases, poor ventilation, chemicals, oils, extreme temperatures, workspace restrictions and intense noises
  

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