Senior Environmental Scientist- ESC

Requisition ID # 159429 

Job Category: Environmental Management / Safety 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: West Sacramento

 

 

Department Overview

Environmental Management is committed to full environmental compliance and establishing our position as an environmental leader to support the companies’ vision to become the leading utility in the United States. We are undertaking numerous initiatives to put our environmental values to work, while at the same time delighting our customers, energizing our employees and rewarding our

shareholders.

 

Position Summary

This Senior Environmental Scientist - Air Quality Subject Matter Expert position supports PG&E’s Environmental Management Facility Compliance Team as an authority on air quality regulatory compliance. This is a hybrid position primarily conducting work from a home office, with limited travel requirements to facilities in coverage territory which includes PG&E’s Northern Service Territory, generally encompassed by the Bay Area and Stockton region of the Central Valley to the northern extent of the service territory. This is an ESC or union-represented exempt classification currently subject to collective bargaining.

 

This is a senior-level position that requires project management and program management skills and duties and provides technical support for a wide range of air quality (AQ) compliance matters. Furthermore, the duties for the position include enhancing and/or creating clear and consistent guidance/programs/procedures and collaborates with Environmental Management (EM) personnel

and functional area (FA) partners (e.g. Gas Operations, Electric Operations) to effectively communicate and implement AQ compliance guidance/programs/procedures intended to comply with numerous local, state, and federal regulations/requirements/policies following the spirit and intention of the law.

 

The Senior Environmental Scientist will collaborate, support, and provide guidance to Environmental Field Specialists (EFS) and others within EM and Gas and Electric Operations who support both facility compliance and construction projects while maintaining alignment with PG&E goals, directives, and values. For both projects and facility support, this position’s objective is to resolve problems, eliminate obstacles, streamline work practices and reduce AQ risks. This position will also be responsible for development and implementation of AQ compliance practices, programs, and strategies across the PG&E service territory. This position reports to the EM Supervisor supporting Gas and Electric Transmission.

 

The primary responsibility for this position is to support and collaborate with Gas Transmission (GT) Facilities; however, this position will also support Electric Transmission (ET) and Telecommunications facilities including substations, as well as GT and ET Projects at non-permitted facilities to ensure they have fully compliant AQ systems and processes in place that are consistently applied system wide.

 

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need.

 

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.  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.

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A reasonable salary range is:​

 

California Minimum: $123,384​

California Maximum: $165,204

 

 

Job Responsibilities

− Works in adherence with all safety requirements and drives safety forward by

utilizing or applying concepts learned during training,