Expert Gas Engineer- Flexible Location

Requisition ID # 169784 

Job Category: Engineering / Science 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Gas Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland; Sacramento; San Ramon

Department Overview

The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emission Strategies team within Gas Engineering plays a critical role in advancing PG&E’s True North Strategy and help PG&E meet its goal to achieve net-zero GHG emissions by 2040 and become “climate positive” by 2050. The team leads efforts to reduce methane emissions, develop pathways to decarbonize the gas supply, and influence state policy by leveraging PG&E’s technical expertise as a pipeline operator. Its main goal is to accelerate the transition to low-carbon fuels—ensuring cleaner energy sources reliably reach customers through our system.

Position Summary

The Gas Engineer, Expert is responsible for all aspects of the Natural Gas Leak Abatement program. The successful candidate excels at developing and implementing effective strategies to lower GHG emissions, analyzes technical data, manages tactical plans, and collaborates with various internal stakeholders and departments to achieve program objectives with minor supervision. This role includes work as listed below:

• Calculate GHG emissions estimates that are used for both internal and external reporting, ensuring compliance with regulatory agency requirements
• Analyze operational and GHG emissions data to determine trends and potential areas-of-improvement

• Develop and maintain working relationships, contacts, and networks across multiple lines of business (LOB) to achieve cooperation from others to achieve a goal

• Guide research and development (R&D) projects to study, evaluate, and test new or revised methodologies, best practices, tools, processes, procedures, and technology assessing potential fit, benefits, and impacts to methane emissions abatement activities

• Develop, monitor and implement Tactical Implementation Plans (TIP) to achieve team results

• Manage benchmarking internally and externally for analysis and continuous improvement
• Participate and present at meetings with regulators and industry peers to share program results and best practices

• Act as subject matter expert for anything related to GHG emissions, including how emissions data is gathered and how it is reported in regulatory filings
• Find ways to streamline data management and reporting, and improve data quality

A successful candidate will demonstrate a strong passion for innovation and emerging technologies, coupled with the ability to lead and collaborate on multi-functional and cross-functional projects within a matrix environment. They should thrive in roles that demand exceptional attention to detail, organizational skills, and analytical thinking.

Location is flexible within the PG&E Service Territory between San Ramon, Oakland, or Sacramento headquarters. Please note hiring leader will make final decision of what are appropriate headquarters for the role based on business need.

Position will require approximately 20% of travel time in work schedule.

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:$136,000

Bay Area Maximum: $232,000

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

Job Responsibilities

•              Solves complex problems by developing and utilizing new and innovative engineering design and technical solutions

•              Is recognized as a subject matter expert in one discipline and provides breadth of knowledge and performs analyses and projects across several disciplines.

•              Studies, evaluates and tests new or revised methodologies, best practices, tools, processes, procedures and technology assessing potential fit, benefits, and impacts to Gas Operations

•              Projects and work often have impact, application and interaction across departments in Gas Operations and across the Company.

•              Technical pathfinder that searches for practical breakthrough solutions to complex problems and issues

•              Presents engineering research, findings, solutions and recommendations to Directors and Managers across Gas Operations

•              Works independently with guidance on only the most complex projects

•              May act as team lead and provide direction to less experienced employees

Qualifications- 

Qualifications [Minimum]:

• BS Engineering or equivalent experience
• Seven (7) years of relevant experience

Qualifications [Desired]:

• MS Engineering
• Professional Engineer (PE) license
• Gas transmission or distribution experience with design, maintenance, construction and/or operations
• Advanced communication and presentation skills
• Ability to organize and present information and recommendations to leaders across functions
• Ability to lead cross-functional project teams
• Expert Knowledge of applicable engineering principles, codes, regulations, policies and procedures related to the industry and PG&E
• Ability to build relationships and influence actions, decisions, accountabilities and outcomes across functions
• Ability to translate strategy into specific plans and action
• Strong organizational skills.
• Analytical problem solving and decision-making ability
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, Foundry Palantir and SAP