Senior Electric Standards and Strategy Engineer

Requisition ID # 160469 

Job Category: Engineering / Science 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department Overview

 

The Electric Engineering team ensures the delivery of safe and reliable electric service to our customers. Electric Engineering is responsible for every aspect of PG&E's electric distribution and transmission operations, including planning, engineering, maintenance and construction, asset management, business planning, restoration and emergency response.

 

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 implementation support for the transmission, substation, distribution, and transmission and distribution line SCADA/Automation systems. This position 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, $148,272

CA Maximum, $190,488

 

 

Job Responsibilities

 

Substation Asset Implementation

• 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.

• Ensures strategic plans and programs are in place to accomplish ongoing performance improvement of overall electric systems for public and employee safety, and system reliability.
• Ensures cost-effective implementation of projects while optimizing capital investments.
• Solves problems by developing and utilizing engineering design and techni