Associate Protection Engineer

Requisition ID # 158663 

Job Category: Engineering / Science 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: San Ramon

 

 

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, system protection engineering, maintenance and construction, asset management, business planning, restoration, and emergency response.

 

System Protection Engineering provides:

• Project and Maintenance &Operations support, specify design, requirements, and testing procedures.
• Review and analysis of power system disturbance and operations.
• Technical consultation and training for System Operation and Planning issues.
• Equipment evaluation, approval, and standard development.

 

Position Summary

 

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

 

In this role as an entry level Associate Protection Engineer, you will provide support to projects, protection studies and perform protection job duties for distribution voltages 21kV and below under direction of a more experience Protection Engineer or Protection Engineer Supervisor.

 

This position trains in all job duties in its respective discipline and requires a high level of training, direction, and review of work. This job is responsible for providing technical protection engineering for routine projects and maintenance/operation support including but not limited to: issuing protection requirements, relay settings, processing clearances, and investigating relay operations.

 

Emphasis is placed on mastering power system modeling, databases, Distribution transformer and line protection, and relay coordination.

 

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location is presently headquartered in San Ramon.

 

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.

 

Annual salary range:

 

Minimum, $91,728

Maximum, $144,672

 

 

Job Responsibilities

 

• Provide protection engineering support for projects and studies. The engineer may perform the following job duties for distribution voltages:
• Issue protection requirements and prepare description of operations for non-standard schemes
• Conduct short circuit studies, calculate short circuit line impedance
• Determine and issue relay settings
• Support relay system installations, such as review test program, end-to-end test, load check, direction check, relay release, etc.