Senior Operational Technology Engineer - Location Flexible
Requisition ID # 169995
Job Category: Engineering / Science; Maintenance / Construction / Operations; Power Generation
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Business Unit: Operations - Other
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Oakland; Alameda; Alta; American Canyon; Angels Camp; Antioch; Auberry; Auburn; Avenal; Avila Beach; Bakersfield; Balch Camp; Bay Point; Bear Valley; Belden; Bellota; Belmont; Benicia; Berkeley; Brentwood; Brisbane; Buellton; Burney; Buttonwillow; Calistoga; Campbell; Canyon Dam; Canyondam; Capitola; Caruthers; Chico; Clearlake; Clovis; Coalinga; Colusa; Concord; Concord; Corcoran; Cottonwood; Cupertino; Daly City; Danville; Davis; Dinuba; Downieville; Dublin; Emeryville; Eureka; Fairfield; Folsom; Fort Bragg; Fortuna; Fremont; French Camp; Fresno; Fresno; Fulton; Garberville; Geyserville; Gilroy; Goodyear; Grass Valley; Guerneville; Half Moon Bay; Hayward; Hinkley; Hollister; Holt; Huron; Jackson; Kerman; King City; Lakeport; Lemoore; Lincoln; Linden; Livermore; Lodi; Loomis; Los Banos; Lower Lake; Madera; Magalia; Manteca; Manton; Mariposa; Martell; Marysville; Maxwell; Menlo Park; Merced; Meridian; Millbrae; Milpitas; Modesto; Monterey; Montgomery Creek; Morgan Hill; Morro Bay; Moss Landing; Mountain View; Napa; Needles; Newark; Newman; Novato; Oakdale; Oakhurst; Oakley; Olema; Orinda; Orland; Oroville; Palo Alto; Palo Cedro; Paradise; Parkwood; Paso Robles; Petaluma; Pioneer; Pismo Beach; Pittsburg; Placerville; Pleasant Hill; Point Arena; Potter Valley; Quincy; Rancho Cordova; Red Bluff; Redding; Richmond; Ridgecrest; Rio Vista; Rocklin; Roseville; Round Mountain; Sacramento; Salida; Salinas; San Bruno; San Carlos; San Francisco; San Francisco; San Jose; San Luis Obispo; San Mateo; San Rafael; San Ramon; San Ramon; Sanger; Santa Cruz; Santa Maria; Santa Nella; Santa Rosa; Selma; Shaver Lake; Sonoma; Sonora; South San Francisco; Springville; Stockton; Storrie; Taft; Tracy; Turlock; Twain; Ukiah; Vacaville; Vallejo; Walnut Creek; Wasco; Watsonville; West Sacramento; Wheatland; Whitmore; Willits; Willow Creek; Willows; Windsor; Winters; Woodland; Yuba City
Position Summary
Join a high-performing, dynamic team shaping the future of PG&E’s electric grid by delivering reliable, safe, affordable, and clean energy to customers and communities.
The Grid Operations, Applications, and Transformation (GOAT) team is responsible for implementing and maintaining PG&E’s operational technologies that support Grid and Distribution Control Centers. These platforms include the Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS), a foundational component of a sustainable energy future and the Grid of Tomorrow.
We are seeking accomplished, integrity-driven, and collaborative individuals to join our team as a Senior Operational Technology Engineer.
The Senior Operational Technology Engineer will develop, implement, and support operational technology applications used by Grid and Distribution Control Centers. This role partners with internal stakeholders to gather requirements, works with vendors and developers to deliver application capabilities, and performs testing to confirm solutions meet acceptance criteria. The role also provides technical support for production applications, including root-cause analysis, workaround identification, resolution planning, testing, and reporting. This position will coordinate closely with GOAT Product Owners to align application direction, priorities, and delivery outcomes.
The ideal candidate combines knowledge of electric power systems engineering, utility operations, system design, architecture, data flows, and system interfaces. This role requires strong systems-thinking skills and the ability to understand how grid operations, business processes, data, and technology platforms interact. The candidate must be able to translate operational and engineering needs into clear technical requirements. Experience leading technical discussions with software vendors and system integrators is also important, including requirements definition, solution review, testing, and issue resolution. Experience working across engineering, operations, IT, cybersecurity, and vendor organizations is essential.
This position offers the opportunity to influence the design and evolution of advanced grid technologies, including SCADA, Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS), and Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS). Example applications include Load Flow, State Estimation, FLISR (Fault Location, Isolation, and Service Restoration), Volt/VAR Optimization, Dynamic Protection, Switching Management, Outage Management, Crew Management, and system automation schemes. The role will partner closely with PG&E organizations responsible for engineering, transmission and distribution operations, system reliability, cybersecurity, and IT.
This role serves as a primary bridge between business stakeholders, control center operations, engineering organizations, IT teams, cybersecurity, and external software vendors. Success requires strong technical judgment, clear communication across operational and technical disciplines, and the ability to drive alignment from concept through implementation and production support.
The selected candidate must live within PG&E’s 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, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.
A reasonable salary range is:
Minimum Base Salary (Bay Area) $122,000.00
Mid Base Salary (Bay Area) $158,000.00
Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area) $194,000.00
Minimum Base Salary (California) $116,000.00
Mid Base Salary (California) $150,000.00
Maximum Base Salary (California) $184,000.00
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead coordination among system integrators, PG&E IT, cybersecurity, and PG&E business subject matter experts to implement and support ADMS capabilities.
- Partner with vendors and internal teams to resolve technical challenges, incorporate best practices, and deliver solutions that meet control center and business needs efficiently.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of product capabilities and provide direction and input into PG&E’s operational technology roadmap.
- Perform engineering analysis to enhance and tune PG&E’s electrical distribution network model in support of advanced application requirements and convergence.
- Participate in functional testing to validate system performance and confirm that applications accurately reflect electrical theory, distribution grid operating behavior, and PG&E acceptance criteria.
- Lead review and modernization efforts to ensure field apparatus construction standards and operational procedures support current and future system functionality.
- Deliver Tier 2 application support for control center operations by helping ensure optimal application performance and resolving issues related to the network model, telemetry, and overall system functionality.
- Serve as an application subject matter expert by coordinating across operations, protection, planning, IT, business teams, and cybersecurity. Lead root-cause analysis for complex SCADA, telemetry, protection, and application performance events.
Travel to San Ramon may be required up to 10% of the time.
Qualifications
Minimum:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience
- 5 years of electric utility-related work experience
- Experience with grid modeling software (e.g. CYMDIST, PSLF, Aspen, etc.)
Desired:
- Experience with power system engineering at the transmission or distribution level.
- Operations or operations support experience within electric utility, energy, or industrial operational technology industires.
- EMS, DMS, ADMS, DERMS implementation, system integration, or production support experience.
- Experience translating user stories, features, and operational needs into technical requirements and implementation tasks.
- Experience working in a cross-functional, highly matrixed environment.
- Strong analytical mindset, attention to model and data quality, and ability to communicate clearly with operators, engineers, IT staff, and management.
- Excellent communication (oral and written) and collaboration skills.
- Proactive, highly motivated individual who demonstrates ownership, execution, and decisiveness; capable of identifying opportunities, driving stakeholder alignment, and leading complex initiatives from concept through implementation.
- Strong technical knowledge of SCADA, ADMS, and related operational technology products.
- Knowledge of protection equipment, protection schemes, SCADA/RTU/PMU concepts, communication protocols (e.g., ICCP, DNP3, IEC 61850), and integration of telemetry and status data into applications.
- Experience working with tools such as Jira, Microsoft Excel, Foundry, and Power BI.