Senior GIS Technical Specialist

Requisition ID # 165051 

Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations 

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.

 

 

 

 

Position Summary

 

This position reports to the Risk Management Supervising Engineer under the Data, Risk, and Threat team, and is critical to PG&E’s Gas Transmission Integrity Management Program to help ensure PG&E maintains safe and reliable pipelines which comply with federal regulations. The role will work on a cross-functional team of Engineers, Data Specialists, Data Scientists, and Program Managers to provide GIS and database support for the implementation of the Risk Management duties of PG&E’s approximately 6000-mile transmission pipeline system. The Senior Specialist will work with many key internal stakeholders such as Asset Knowledge Management, Gas Transmission Engineering & Design, Enterprise Risk Management, and Regulatory Compliance.

 

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

 

•             Develop and perform advanced data gathering, data integration, and quality control procedures for geospatial data, interface with data source systems to resolve complex issues; estimate impact of data issues to compliance and business commitments

•             Identify user quality control, support and data integration process improvement opportunities, gather input and agreement on new requirements and lead implementation, communication and training around process revisions/changes.

•             Develop and implement metrics related to integrity management and risk modeling

•             Extract, transform, and load data from PG&E and public sources to support machine learning modeling needs.

•             Create and update metadata and catalog GIS layers, including documenting work flow procedures for staff using GIS, both in the office and in the field.

•             Keeping up to date with industry innovations on risk modeling, benchmark with industry peers

•             Lead GIS software, hardware and database projects and initiatives

•             Work collaboratively with other work groups and vendors, troubleshoot issues, produce technical communication

•             Lead projects and efforts related to opportunities for improvement in the way work is done, share expertise and lessons learned

•             Demonstrate by personal action a 100% commitment to employee and public safety.

•             Coach and mentor other GIS Technical Specialists.

 

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 (San Ramon).

 

Hybrid working schedule (requires monthly/weekly meetings in San Ramon).

 

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