Engineer

CPS Energy is hiring an Engineer to help ensure safe, reliable, and economic around-the-clock performance of generation and electric transmission and distribution systems. This onsite role in San Antonio, TX blends operational support with engineering planning work across power plants, transmission, substations, distribution systems, and related gas infrastructure.

How you’ll make an impact

• Support safe and dependable daily operation of generation, transmission, and distribution systems, including monitoring and responses to system disturbances.
• Partner across generation, transmission, distribution, gas, operations, forecasting, finance, and other business units to evaluate system needs and identify practical engineering solutions.
• Analyze technical, operational, and planning data to support long-range infrastructure strategies, capital investment prioritization, and performance improvements.
• Develop, refine, and document processes, assumptions, methodologies, and recommendations for new or evolving engineering and planning programs.
• Provide engineering input to complex, multi-disciplinary initiatives where requirements and program structure may evolve during execution.
• Prepare technical analyses, presentations, and recommendations for leadership and cross-functional partners to enable informed decisions.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities across interconnected systems, and recommend actions that strengthen reliability, efficiency, and customer value.

Responsibilities you’ll own

• Attend seminars and continuing education opportunities for professional development.
• Evaluate and recommend new standards, products, and/or services.
• Recommend and implement improvements to processes and procedures.
• May include limited supervisory responsibilities, including mentoring lower level engineers.
• Make frequent independent decisions and recommendations that affect the section, department, and/or division.
• Participate in and provide input to the area budget and work within financial objectives set by management.
• Discipline expert to mentor and develop employees.
• May sign and seal engineering work and engineering work prepared by staff under oversight.
• Support assigned project and process improvement initiatives.

What you bring

• Texas Professional Engineer (PE) certification.
• Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering field from an ABET accredited four-year college or university.
• Broad knowledge of engineering principles, practices, and procedures, plus demonstrated mastery of engineering discipline skills.
• Proven ability to handle a wide range of engineering assignments with minimal supervision.
• Ability to lead cross-functional business initiatives and teams, including internal project teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage project costs, timeline, scope, and risks.
• Ability to effectively check work product for adequacy, quality, and accuracy.
• Effective communication focused on understanding customer needs and developing resolution.
• Strong people skills with a collaborative working style.
• Ability to work call duty and occasional unscheduled work in the evenings, weekends, or holidays after experience level permits.
• Ability to travel occasionally for off-site work, seminars, and manufacturing plant inspections.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Package, including word processing, spreadsheets, database, presentation software, electronic mail, and scheduling.

Preferred and additional info

• Preferred qualifications: Transmission engineering experience; Master’s degree from an accredited university.
• Competencies: Manages Ambiguity, Collaborates, Communicates Effectively, Drives Vision and Purpose, Drive for Results.
• Technologies: Microsoft Office Package; electronic mail and scheduling; word processing; spreadsheets; database; presentation software; electronic mail.

Pay Grade: 16. Qualifications may warrant placement at a different job level. Open until filled.

Working environment and physical demands

• Work performed both indoors and outdoors, including operating computer equipment and required physical activity such as repetitive motion.
• Potential exposure to hazardous chemicals, wet or humid conditions, outdoor weather, noisy or dusty environments.
• After-hours work may be required.
• Physical demands include exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and negligible force frequently or constantly for sedentary work.