Senior Advising Electric Standards and Strategy Engineer

Requisition ID # 165173 

Job Category: Engineering / Science 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The Electric Engineering team ensures the delivery of safe and reliable electric service to our customers. Electric Engineering is responsible for PG&E's electric distribution and transmission operations, including planning, engineering, maintenance and construction, asset management, business planning, restoration, and emergency response.

Position Summary

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

The Senior Advising level engineer job requires mastery of the Senior level engineer skills and duties. This position is responsible for providing technical strategy and implementation support for the transmission, system and handles complex problems and issues. The Senior Advising Engineer is a recognized expert within their area of responsibility, identifies opportunities and brings in ideas to help improve company performance and applies extensive knowledge of concepts, principles, and practices to resolve complex problems with only general direction.

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.

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, collective bargaining agreements, and internal equity.

The annual salary range is:

CA minimum, $173,856

CA maximum, $213,624

Responsibilities

Role will include work for transmission equipment:

• Develop and manage major reliability strategies.
• Develop the criteria for and support implementation of short- and long-term mitigations based on outage data and availability reports.
• Perform trending analysis on outage data we recommend strategy solutions to mitigate risk from equipment failure.
• Track outage data and report out on data as needed.
• Provide guidance to peers and lower-level engineers.
•  Lead the development and management of Life Cycle Plans based on outage data
• NERC FAC-008 and FERC Order 881 Lead – Substation and transmission line Facility Ratings used in the reliable planning and operation of the Bulk Electric System (Transmission Register).

Scope:

Resolves problems of complex scope. Assignments may require complex solutions. Works independently with limited feedback from supervisor. Expected to apply creative solutions, techniques, and approaches to work assignments. Customarily and regularly uses discretion and independent judgment in fulfilling these job functions.

Interactions:

Assists lower classification engineers and works with the supervisor. Externally, establishes and maintains good relations with counterparts and higher-level representatives in third party organizations, e.g., governmental, regulatory, business partner or community entities, using skilled negotiation, tact, and diplomacy. Internal contacts include project team members and company management across various departments. May have specialized technical expertise and provides information and training as appropriate in the assigned specialized area.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil or Electrical Engineering from an accredited university
• 13 years of cumulative experience in engineering, planning and/or operations.

Desired:

• Current California PE license
• Project Management experience