Engineering Support Representative Job Summary ** ** Essential Functions Provides location data for company facilities to internal and external construction and maintenance personnel. Distribute, monitor, track and archive external construction project plans. Supports Engineering Design clerical work order processes that meet construction and installation requirements; includes processing, monitoring, filing/archiving, researching, and reporting for permits, lane closures, TCPs (Traffic Control Plan), restoration/paving repairs, along with various other state, city and local permits. Basic Qualifications: * Provides company facility location information and extension and relocation reimbursement policy information to Government Public Works Departments, Engineering Consultations, Utility Coordinating Committee and customers. * Serves as liaison during initial stages of public improvement projects. * Provides preliminary project review for facility conflict and coordinate conflict resolution. * Receive and distribute project notifications for public improvement projects to the appropriate company designer. * Distribute, monitor, track and archive external construction project plans. * Serves as liaison with permitting authorities. * Files digital and paper records, and maintains both current and legacy filing systems. * Responds to customer inquiries (internal and external) for gas distribution system information. * Process construction notifications letter to send to residents. * Generate Engineering department activity reports for management review. * Performs general clerical duties for the engineering department. * Performs additional duties as assigned. Education: Requires a high school diploma or GED Experience: Requires a minimum of one (1) year of experience reading and interpreting engineering plans or performing other types of related engineering and/or construction work. Competencies: * Business and Financial Acumen Understand the impact actions and decision have on the bottom line of the enterprise. * Coaching and Development Develop others capabilities to empower them to reach their potential. * Collaboration Eliminate boundaries and drive common goals. * Connecting, Listening, and Sharing Maintain open, active, two-way communication * Customer Focus Through Service Understand and exceed the expectations of internal and external customers * Enterprise Mindset Act in way that are best for the company as a whole * Results Orientation Reject the status-quo, find opportunities to improve and drive outstanding business results * Steadiness - Demonstrate strength, poise, and an appropriate presence. Physical Requirements * Able to hear oral communication either in person or on equipment such as telephone or mobile phone. * Able to operate a personal computer, either desktop or laptop, for extended periods * Able to reach, grasp, bend, stoop and move items. * Able to sit, stand or walk for extended periods of time. * Able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a minimal amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects. * Able to operate office machines including telephone, photocopier, fax machine, calculator, laptop, mobile phone, digital camera, GPS equipment, etc. Working Conditions: * Able to support the Emergency Operating Plan. * Able to work indoors, in an office environment, regardless of whether open office, cubicle or private office. * Able to work in fast-paced environment with a high volume workload and frequent, short deadlines that may require working overtime to meet established deadlines, including working nights and/or weekends as required. * Able to travel occasionally to field locations to obtain data or inspect site and may include overnight stay for training events. This job description reflects an assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks for this position. Other duties and tasks may be assigned to this position at the Companys discretion. _ _ Must demonstrate respect for all individuals and adhere to the Company's values and business practices. Able to demonstrate respect for all individuals, adhere to the Companys values and business practices and do both consistently. _ _ CenterPoint Energy provides an essential public service which vitally affects the health, safety, comfort and general well-being of the people living in the area served by the Company. If any business unit activates an emergency operation plan, because of a threat to the continuation of service to our customers, employees may be called to fulfill an assignment. All employees, whether in their normal job or an emergency operation plan assignment, are essential to successful service restoration. CenterPoint Energy values the role each employee plays in serving the needs of our community. _ _ All applicants must take a pre-employment drug test and obtain a negative result as a condition of employment. In addition to a pre-employment test, employees performing job functions regulated by the Department of Transportation (i.e. safety-sensitive functions) are subject to random drug and/or alcohol testing. Other testing (post-accident, reasonable cause, return-to-duty, follow-up, or return-to-work) may be required in accordance with work-related conditions. _ _ _ _ #LI-CH1 #LI-POST **Primary Location: **US-TX-Houston-CenterPoint Energy Tower **Work Locations: ** **Job: **Engineering - Support **Organization: **CenterPoint Energy **Schedule: **Full-time **Job Posting: **Nov 15, 2018