Senior Electric Standards and Strategy Engineer

Requisition ID # 170499 

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 job is represented by 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 technical specification of equipment, design criteria, standards and implementation support for the substation electrical transformers and handles complex problems and issues.

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

• 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 in implementation of complex and large-scale projects.
• Where applicable, act as a liaison with Maintenance and Construction personnel by providing communication and feedback regarding construction standards, work procedures and equipment iss­­­ues.

• Provide support on regulatory, governmental and other third-party issues.

Qualifications

Minimum:

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

Desired:

• Experience in Quality audits or cause analysis
• Experience in substation ground grids
• Current and active California PE license desired
• 10% travel to conferences, suppliers’ factories, and PG&E facilities