Senior GIS Analyst

Requisition ID # 169753 

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

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

The Senior GIS Analyst performs advanced GIS analysis and related tasks under direction of higher classification employees.

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, $132,120

CA Maximum, $153,252

Job Responsibilities

• Interact with clients to assess business needs, coordinate with outside agencies, market GIS services, and perform training as appropriate.
• Perform all tasks with high level of client satisfaction.
• Develop data layers: Design and manage data acquisition processes (vector or raster), acquire and convert data from outside sources, perform topological conversion, create and maintain metadata.
• Produce intermediate to advanced cartographic output involving sophisticated analyses.
• Perform intermediate to advanced database queries, analyses and reports.
• Perform intermediate to advanced spatial analysis utilizing existing modeling tools.
• Assist with applications development at an advanced level, for example, developing business requirement documents including preliminary layout of forms (input-output), sample reports, required algorithms pertinent to the application, and designing web-based help pages.
• Perform intermediate to advanced data administration tasks on spatial data files and spatial RDBMS.
• Obtain and customize new GIS tools, including scripts and utilities benefiting the GIS group.
• Coach other GIS employees on areas of expertise.
• Ability to perform all tasks of all lower classification GIS positions as needed.
• Ability to manage projects with high client satisfaction and excellent communication.
• Collaboratively direct the work of others.

Qualifications:

Minimum:

• BA/BS in Geomatics, Geography, GIS, or related field, or the equivalent in education and/or experience. Successful completion of two college level courses (semester or quarter) or 16 days of advanced coursework that directly applies to the skills described in the Senior GIS Analyst job description. Coursework may be taken via University Extension, through a vendor (e.g. ESRI, Oracle), or online, or equivalent. Successful presentation of a GIS topic to an internal or external audience (peer or audience review of success is documented).
• 30 months of experience in GIS at GIS Analyst level or equivalent

Desired:

• Skilled in working with LiDAR point‑cloud datasets and the vector features derived from them, including classification, extraction, and integration into GIS workflows
• Experienced with AWS AppStream, AWS S3, and RDS Postgres

• SQL
• HTML
• Oracle Spatial