Expert GIS Technical Specialist

Requisition ID # 170340 

Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The hardworking coworkers of Electric Engineering ensure all manners of electric engineering—including electric standards and process safety, electric design engineering, instrumentation testing and controls, undergrounding, electric regulatory compliance and electric investment planning—are in place to safely enable a strategic and stable workplan for our Electric Operations partners. Our organization is accountable for program planning, financial budgeting, and project execution and delivery of all electric engineering projects. Electric Engineering is comprised of approximately 2,000 coworkers.

Position Summary

Provides Geographic Information System application, database, and interface support for the implementation of business-related duties for PG&E’s Electric Transmission, Substation, and Distribution system.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location is flexible within the PG&E 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:

Bay Area Minimum: $122,000
Bay Area Maximum: $194,000

OR
California Minimum: $116,000
California Maximum: $184,000

Job Responsibilities

• Demonstrate by personal action a 100% commitment to employee and public safety
• Develop and perform advanced gathering, integration, and quality control procedures for geospatial data with significant impact and risk to LOB or function
• Develop plans, metrics, and process improvement programs for GIS-related work processes
• Manage delivery of GIS-related data development projects, gather input and agreement on new requirements, develop contracts with vendors, lead implementation, communication, training, and documentation efforts
• May manage cross-functional projects with other work groups and vendors, troubleshoot issues, produce technical communication
• Serve as lead SME for advanced enterprise GIS initiatives, develop and review software functionality requirements
• Use advanced knowledge and broad expertise to solve complex problems regarding GIS-related software, hardware, work processes, user support and data integration
• Work independently, with guidance on only the most complex projects
• Work with Directors and Managers across functions to influence decisions
• Work with IT DBAs, Migration, and Infrastructure Teams to develop, maintain system architecture and stability and resolve issues affecting business users

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
• 7 years of experience with GIS applications in the utility industry
• 5 years of experience in ArcGIS 9.x or later

Desired:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• Experience in electric transmission and distribution
• Experience as Project Manager
• GISP-Geographic Information Systems Professional certification