ATS Failure Analysis Engineering Tech I

Requisition ID # 173258 

Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Energy Delivery

Work Type: Onsite

Job Location: Danville

Department Overview

Applied Technology Services (ATS) has been providing technology-based, innovative, high-value services to the company for over 50 years. ATS is a multidisciplinary team of over 130 engineers, scientists, and technicians. The ATS vision is to be a forward-thinking, technological leader providing high-value solutions and services needed across the Company. ATS high value services also help proactively avoid future problems by specifying equipment, materials and methods that are best practices in the industry.

PG&E’s Applied Technologies Services (ATS) Materials Engineering & Failure Analysis group provides a range of services, which include failure analysis, condition assessments, and material specification testing.  

Facility description: ATS has Mechanical and Metallurgical laboratories that specialize in Failure Analysis testing.  The mechanical testing laboratory is equipped with a variety of universal force testing frames along with a machine shop for fabricating testing fixtures. The lab is also supported by the materials team with a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), optical microscopes, image analysis systems, sample prep equipment, and micro-hardness testers.

Position Summary

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

In this Engineering Technician I position, you will be involved in safely operating lab equipment and tools including performing maintenance as necessary; manage test sample inventories including coordinating delivery, processing, and labeling new samples, performing preliminary inspections, communicating sample status with engineers and stakeholders, tracking on-site materials, and dispositioning of samples.

Materials you will encounter on the job will include steels (pipes, valves, vessels), aluminum (wire, fittings, connectors), copper (wire, valves), and ceramics (insulators).

Some desired experience for the candidate should include basic skills in, but not limited to:

• Coordinating, scheduling, tracking, and receiving material shipments by freight
• Executing mechanical tests based upon industry and company testing standards under engineering direction
• Experience with metallurgical test lab activities including sample sectioning, mounting & polishing, hardness testing (Rockwell, Vickers, Knoop), using precision measuring equipment (gages, calipers, scales, micrometers, etc.), and macro & micro photography
• Understanding the properties of materials under dynamic or static forces while conducting mechanical tests
• Knowledge and experience reading and interpreting engineering drawings, product specifications and other technical documents
• Fabrication skills including using hand tools, oxy-fuel torch cutting, band saw, CNC milling, wet/dry cut off saws, lathes, etc.

Travel requirement: 10% of the time, throughout the PG&E territory.

PG&E is providing the hourly rate 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 hourly rate 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 agreement, and internal equity.

Under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement, the hourly rate range for this position is $43.58 to $56.94, subject to collectively bargained wage increases.​

Responsibilities

• Safety: Demonstrate safe working practices at all times. Strong focus on customer, general public and employee safety in all work practices.
• Job Management: Collaborate well with team members to conduct laboratory projects. Detail oriented test sample management and tracking.
• Materials Testing: Execute and report results with direct support from an engineer or senior team member.
• Housekeeping: Responsible for performing necessary maintenance, calibration, and shop orderliness including ensuring adequate inventory of testing supplies is maintained.
• Quality Improvement: Identify continuous improvement opportunities within the lab
• Reporting: Compile detailed test data and generate simple pre/post-test summary reports in the format requested by the clients.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Possess a 2-year AA of Science degree (preferably mechanical, Non-destructive testing or materials science) or equivalent education and/or certifications in the appropriate field of technology

Desired:

• Experience with materials management (Coordinating, scheduling, tracking, and receiving material shipments by freight)
• Experience with operating laboratory equipment including maintenance, repairs, calibrations, and troubleshooting of a difficult nature on a wide variety of materials
• Experience in basic metal fabrication including using hand tools, oxy-fuel torch cutting, band saw, CNC milling, wet/dry cut off saws, lathes, etc.
• Forklift operator
• Experience with reading and interpreting engineering drawings, product specifications and other technical documents
• Previously performed basic metallurgical test lab activities including sample sectioning, mounting & polishing, hardness testing (Rockwell, Vickers, Knoop), using precision measuring equipment (gages, calipers, scales, micrometers, etc.), and macro & micro photography
• Basic understanding of metallurgy concepts is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment while managing multiple tasks to achieve significant goals.
• Comfortable with computers: familiar with MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint