Expert Electrical Engineer, ATS

Requisition ID # 174696 

Job Category: Engineering / Science 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Energy Delivery

Work Type: Onsite

Job Location: Danville; San Ramon

Department Overview

Applied Technology Services (ATS) has been providing technology-based, innovative, high-value services to the company for over 40 years. ATS is a multidisciplinary team of over 140 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 through solutions and methods that are best practices in the industry.

Position Summary

This position is for an Expert Electrical Engineer who provides technical leadership in the development, testing, evaluation, and deployment of technologies supporting electric transmission, distribution, generation, and substation assets. The position performs advanced electrical testing, forensic engineering investigations, engineering analysis, and technology evaluations in both field and laboratory environments.

Work assignments may include grounding and touch potential assessments, substation and facility arc-flash studies, underground cable diagnostics, transmission line electrical measurements, equipment condition assessments, transformer and substation equipment testing, failure analysis investigations, engineering support for safety and wildfire investigations, asset health monitoring, and development of emerging technologies and testing methods.

The position serves as a recognized subject matter expert, providing technical consultation and engineering recommendations to internal clients, executive leadership, industry organizations, regulatory agencies, and external stakeholders. This work directly supports company objectives related to Public Safety, Employee Safety, Asset Reliability, Wildfire Risk Reduction, Operational Excellence, Regulatory Compliance, and Capital Investment Optimization.

The selected candidate must live within PG&E’s 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, 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.​

A reasonable salary range is:

Minimum Base Salary (Bay Area)            $140,000.00

Mid Base Salary (Bay Area)        $189,000.00

Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area)           $238,000.00

Job Responsibilities

• Leads complex engineering investigations involving electrical equipment failures, safety incidents, wildfire-related events, and asset performance concerns.
• Performs forensic engineering analysis of transmission, distribution, generation, and substation equipment including transformers, circuit breakers, batteries, cables, insulators, grounding systems, instrument transformers, capacitors, regulators, and associated electrical apparatus.
• Develops, validates, and implements advanced testing methodologies, acceptance criteria, and condition assessment programs for utility infrastructure.
• Provides technical leadership for laboratory and field testing activities involving high-voltage electrical systems and specialized diagnostic equipment.
• Evaluates asset condition and failure mechanisms through electrical testing, engineering analysis, inspections, laboratory evaluations, and review of operational data.
• Supports utility infrastructure risk reduction through asset health monitoring, technology evaluations, predictive maintenance initiatives, and reliability improvement programs.
• Develops technical specifications, testing procedures, standards recommendations, and engineering guidance documents.
• Leads multidisciplinary teams consisting of engineers, technicians, contractors, and external subject matter experts to execute complex projects.
• Performs technical and economic evaluations of new technologies, identifying opportunities to improve safety, reliability, operational efficiency, and cost effectiveness.
• Provides engineering consultation and expert technical recommendations to business partners, project teams, leadership, and regulatory organizations.
• Supports implementation of monitoring, sensing, and data acquisition technologies for transmission, distribution, and substation assets.
• Participates in root-cause analyses and corrective action development for significant equipment failures and operational events.
• Represents PG&E at industry conferences, standards committees, research organizations, and technical working groups.
• Mentors engineers and technicians while providing technical leadership across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Develops and manages projects including scope, schedule, budget, deliverables, resource planning, and stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• 7 years of job-related working experience

Desired:

• Masters Degree or equivalent experience
• PE-Professional Engineer license