The Public Utility Commission of Texas: Your Gateway to a Fulfilling Career!
The Public Utility Commission regulates the state’s electric, telecommunication, and water and sewer utilities, implementing respective legislation and offering customer assistance in resolving customer complaints.
Join a Team Dedicated to Public Service
Are you passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of Texans? We are committed to building a highly skilled workforce. Our team boasts a wide range of expertise, from legal and engineering professionals to dedicated administrative staff. What unites us is our dedication to serving the public and our commitment to protecting customers, fostering competition, and promoting high quality utility infrastructure
Make a Difference with Us
We recognize the importance of motivated and knowledgeable staff to accomplish our critical mission. If you're eager to contribute to ensuring compliance within the electric, telecommunications, and water and sewer utilities, we want to hear from you! A career at the PUC will not only expand your professional horizons but also make you part of a highly motivated, technically skilled, and supportive team environment.
Competitive Benefits Package
In addition to a positive and family-friendly work culture, the PUC offers a comprehensive benefits package to its employees.
For a detailed overview, please visit https://www.puc.texas.gov/HumanResources/Home/Benefits.
Ready to Make a Difference? Apply Today!
DIVISION – AGENCY OPERATIONS SECTION – INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT)
The Agency Operations division is the administrative backbone to the PUCT and has several departments within the division that play an integral role to the everyday operations of the agency.
Agency Counsel
Agency Counsel provides legal advice and guidance to the commissioners, executive management, and other divisions relating to legal matters affecting the operation of the agency in order to minimize risk, facilitate decision-making, and ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements and PUC policies and rules. The division processes the agency's Public Information Act requests, advises on contracting and procurement processes, assists with the development of internal policies, conducts internal investigations and advises executive management, serves as the agency’s ethics advisor, provides training to agency employees, and provides advice on special projects as assigned.
Central Records
Central Records receives and processes filing submissions for cases before the Commission. Staff members assist customers, utility representatives, the public, and staff with filing documents in docketed cases and ongoing agency projects.
Filed documents include pleadings, testimony, briefs, affidavits, requests for information, rulemakings, registrations, tariffs, certificates of convenience and necessity, sale, transfer, and mergers, interconnection agreements, ADADs, and annual reports. Staff also reviews filings and evaluates documents for compliance with federal and state privacy laws prior to processing. Central Records processes confidential materials, workshop and open meeting transcripts, and agency publications and works with the Financial Resources Division on billing and payments for registrations, copies, and publications.
Library
The PUCT Library offers a dynamic research collection of books, periodicals, technical standards, legislative and government documents, newspapers, and online databases pertaining to law, energy regulation, electricity, water, telecommunications, engineering, and utility finance. The PUCT Librarian is experienced in legislative, energy, business, and financial research and assists commissioners, staff, and the public with a variety of inquiries.
Financial Resources
Financial Resources is a critical backbone for the Commission and one of the many facets of the Commission's Operations Division. Tasked with a plethora of assignments, much of Financial Resources' work goes on behind the scenes. The invaluable staff of the Financial Resources department care for all of their activities, making sure the PUCT remains in compliance with Texas state laws, Texas Comptroller requirements and Legislative requirements.
Human Resources
In support of the PUC’s mission, philosophy and values, it is the mission of Human Resources to foster, reinforce, and sustain fair, equitable and consistent application of the agency's human resources programs, policies and services, to ensure compliance with federal and state laws, and to fulfill the needs of the agency's most valuable resources…it’s PEOPLE.
The Human Resources Department develops and implements activities and programs related to recruitment, staffing, employment, employee classification, compensation, and benefits, as well as employee relations, employee assistance, diversity, and training on human resources policies.
Information Technology
Information Technology (IT) provides support for the technological needs of the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) commissioners, executive management, and agency staff members. These technological needs encompass the management of PUCT’s internal business systems, computing infrastructure, and information security program. IT is organized into three teams: Technology Support and Operations, Application Development, and Information Security.
Technology Support and Operations supports the agency desktop environment by installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting workstation software and hardware, and optimizing staff’s ability to use their computer resources. Additionally, they manage the agency’s servers, perform systems management and integration, and support resolving IT related issues for staff.
Application Development creates and maintains support for over 50 internal and external business applications, provide application support to PUCT staff and external customers, databases administration, and perform business analysis and project coordination.
Information Security oversees the planning, implementation, and monitoring of security measures for the protection of information systems and infrastructure.
Learning and Development
The Learning and Development program fosters a culture of learning at the PUC and works to meet the needs of our staff. Those needs can be division specific, subject-matter specific, and individualistic. By investing in professional development, the PUC can more effectively serve Texans.
Services provided by Learning and Development include:
An array of professional development options by offering a range of learning opportunities to help employees excel in their career from facility tours, workshops, to utility conferences.
A learning platform where employees have access to training resources designed to enhance an employee’s skills and knowledge.
Knowledge-sharing sessions that allows employees to be a part of the agency’s learning community where employees can share their PUC experience and knowledge.
Looking to take the next step in your IT career? The Public Utility Commission’s Information Technology Department is seeking a skilled programmer ready to support innovative solutions and critical agency systems.
IT is recruiting for a Programmer, a professional position responsible for performing highly complex to advanced programming work involving the design, development, and maintenance of agency software and applications. This role includes planning programming projects, analyzing proposed systems, coding and debugging programs, and supporting business process improvements. This position also provides technical advice, collaborates with stakeholders to meet application requirements, and contributes to the agency’s long-term IT strategies through individual and cross-functional development projects.
