Expert Data Scientist

Requisition ID # 158063 

Job Category: Accounting / Finance 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Gas Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: San Ramon

 

 

Department Overview

 

Gas Operations is focused on ensuring the safe and reliable flow of natural gas to our customers. As a whole, Gas Operations is responsible for all aspects of PG&E’s gas distribution and transmission operations, including planning, engineering, maintenance and construction, restoration and emergency response.

Gas Transmission Operations is responsible for maintaining over 6,000 miles of gas transmission pipelines throughout California. This Department is responsible for the overall administration and implementation of the Transmission Integrity Management Program and the evaluation of overall risk to the gas transmission system. This includes overseeing the completion of integrity management assessments, identifying High Consequence Areas (HCA), maintaining PG&E's assessment plan as required by 49 CFR Subpart O, and managing PG&E's overall gas risk management program.

 

The Integrity Management organization's vision is to:

 

• Improve pipeline safety and system reliability with a goal of zero safety incidents.
• Promote a safety culture throughout all levels of the organization with an emphasis on improving learning from the past and anticipating the future.
• Apply integrity management principles on a system-wide basis while engaging our stakeholders, from local communities we operate in to our regulators, so they can understand and participate in reducing our risk.
• Support the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the transmission and distribution pipeline systems through the proactive use of asset knowledge, threat identification, knowledge of threat interaction, data integration and analytical tools to increase operational efficiency, improve system integrity and minimize safety risk to employees and the communities we operate in.

 

Position Summary

 

This Expert Data Scientist position will work on a cross-functional team of Risk Engineers, Risk Analysts, GIS Specialists, and Program Managers to provide business intelligence support involving the use of probabilistic risk modeling methodology for the implementation of risk management duties for PG&E’s gas transmission system. This position will also work collaboratively with data collection organizations to provide data quality assessment and feedback, assess fitness of data for risk modeling, research and adopt industry best practices, develop improvement strategies, and present results to senior leadership and regulatory agencies. This position will report to a Supervising Engineer of Risk Management within the Gas Transmission Integrity Management organization. The Expert Data Scientist is a key position within the Transmission Integrity Management Program (TIMP) team to help ensure PG&E maintains safe and reliable pipelines which comply with federal regulations.

 

 

Position duties may include (but are not limited to)-

 

• Apply data science/ machine learning /artificial intelligence methods to develop defensible and reproducible predictive or optimization