Senior Electric Standards and Strategy Engineer, Transmission Line

Location: Oakland, CA, US

Employment Type: Full-time

Requisition ID # 169280 

Job Category: Engineering / Science 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The hardworking coworkers of Electric Engineering ensure all manners of electric engineering—including electric standards and process safety, electric design engineering, instrumentation testing and controls, undergrounding, electric regulatory compliance and electric investment planning—are in place to safely enable a strategic and stable workplan for our Electric Operations partners. Our organization is accountable for program planning, financial budgeting, and project execution and delivery of all electric engineering projects. Electric Engineering is comprised of approximately 2,000 coworkers.

Position Summary

This position is represented by the Engineers and Scientists of California (ESC) subject to collective bargaining.

The Senior level engineer job requires mastery of the Journey level engineer skills and duties. This position is responsible for providing strategy, engineering, operations, maintenance, and other technical, and implementation support for the transmission, substation, distribution, and transmission and distribution line SCADA/Automation systems. This position handles complex problems and issues. Is able to perform the job duties of a Senior level engineer. As assigned, additional job duties include transmission, substation, distribution, and systems, including transmission and distribution line SCADA/Automation systems:

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, collective bargaining agreements, and internal equity.

The annual salary range is:

CA Minimum, $153,828 

CA Maximum, $197,628 

Job Responsibilities

Asset Strategy:

• Lead development, implementation, and management of a complete asset life cycle and system reliability strategies, plans, and programs including asset installation, maintenance, operations, replacement, and removal.
• Address and manage emergency issues associated with assigned assets.
• Support, perform or lead, as assigned, root cause analysis.
• Acts as a subject matter expert in area of field and applies extensive knowledge of concepts, principles, and practices. Develop and provide specialized training on assets within areas of expertise.
• Provide technical expertise and lead in implementation of complex and large-scale projects.
• Provide support on regulatory, governmental and other third-party issues.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• BS Degree in Electrical Engineering or Civil Engineering or other related engineering degree from an accredited curriculum in the US or the equivalent from outside the US 
• 8 years of cumulative experience in electrical/civil engineering, planning and/or operations

Desired:

• Current and active California PE license desired
• Familiarity with electric transmission and distribution grid
• Background in Six Sigma process
• Experience with SAP, Foundry, PowerBI
• Experience in Tableau, Excel, PowerPoint, ET-GIS
• Experience or ability to manipulate data or find trends
• Knowledge of reliability metrics such as SAIDI, SAIFI, ACOD, ACOF