# Engineer, III, Sr/Principal

About the Role Put your engineering expertise to work on the natural gas infrastructure that supports customer demand. In this role, you’ll lead project engineering, project management, and technical problem-solving across engineering, construction, and equipment procurement. You’ll provide technical guidance for assets that meet GAS peaking and storage needs, bringing project leadership and expertise in natural gas process design and code requirements. Opportunities at multiple levels: This position may be filled as Engineering III (Level 5), Senior Engineer (Level 6), or Principal Engineer (Level 7). Candidates who demonstrate advanced skills through work experience, education, and certifications may qualify for the more advanced positions. What You’ll Do Design critical infrastructure: Perform engineering assignments for the design and construction of natural gas processing and storage facilities and compressor station infrastructure at Nicor Gas and Virginia Natural Gas. Guides electrical power systems: Provide technical support and oversight for the design, selection, and installation of utility power connections, on-site generation, switchgear, motor control centers, motors,

- **Id**: 3367547
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/southern-engineer-iii-srprincipal>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Naperville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-27T19:12:02Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T19:19:21Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 13
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5523
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Energy & Utilities, Power Grid

## Company

- **Id**: 2607898
- **Name**: Southern Company
- **Domain**: southern.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/southern-com>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 89000
- **Max usd**: 181000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1961

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 13

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Management years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-27T23:44:00Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 3; Filings 12m: 3

## Liveness

- **Score**: 66
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.885
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 12
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:6, velocity, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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