Gas Clearance Coordinator

Requisition ID # 170204 

Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Gas Operations

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: San Ramon; Alameda; Alta; American Canyon; Angels Camp; Antioch; Auberry; Auburn; Avenal; Avila Beach; Bakersfield; Balch Camp; Bay Point; Bear Valley; Belden; Bellota; Belmont; Benicia; Berkeley; Brentwood; Brisbane; Buellton; Burney; Buttonwillow; Calistoga; Campbell; Canyon Dam; Canyondam; Capitola; Caruthers; Chico; Clearlake; Clovis; Coalinga; Colusa; Concord; Concord; Corcoran; Cottonwood; Cupertino; Daly City; Danville; Davis; Dinuba; Downieville; Dublin; Emeryville; Eureka; Fairfield; Folsom; Fort Bragg; Fortuna; Fremont; French Camp; Fresno; Fresno; Fulton; Garberville; Geyserville; Gilroy; Goodyear; Grass Valley; Guerneville; Half Moon Bay; Hayward; Hinkley; Hollister; Holt; Houston; Huron; Jackson; Kerman; King City; Lakeport; Lemoore; Lincoln; Linden; Livermore; Lodi; Loomis; Los Banos; Lower Lake; Madera; Magalia; Manteca; Manton; Mariposa; Martell; Marysville; Maxwell; Menlo Park; Merced; Meridian; Millbrae; Milpitas; Modesto; Monterey; Montgomery Creek; Morgan Hill; Morro Bay; Moss Landing; Mountain View; Napa; Needles; Newark; Newman; Novato; Oakdale; Oakhurst; Oakland; Oakley; Olema; Orinda; Orland; Oroville; Palo Alto; Palo Cedro; Paradise; Parkwood; Paso Robles; Petaluma; Pioneer; Pismo Beach; Pittsburg; Placerville; Pleasant Hill; Point Arena; Potter Valley; Quincy; Rancho Cordova; Red Bluff; Redding; Richmond; Ridgecrest; Rio Vista; Rocklin; Roseville; Round Mountain; Sacramento; Salida; Salinas; San Bruno; San Carlos; San Francisco; San Francisco; San Jose; San Luis Obispo; San Mateo; San Rafael; Sanger; Santa Cruz; Santa Maria; Santa Nella; Santa Rosa; Selma; Shaver Lake; Sonoma; Sonora; South San Francisco; Springville; Stockton; Storrie; Taft; Tracy; Turlock; Twain; Ukiah; Vacaville; Vallejo; Walnut Creek; Wasco; Washington; Washington D.C.; Watsonville; West Sacramento; Wheatland; Whitmore; Willits; Willow Creek; Willows; Windsor; Winters; Woodland; Yuba City

Department Overview

Gas Operations oversees the natural gas transmission and distribution operations. The team maintains and operates 6,700 miles of gas transmission pipeline, 43,000 miles of distribution main, 3.6 million gas services, three PG&E-owned storage facilities with 102 BCF capacity, nine compressor stations with 175K HP, and 5,000 measurement and control facilities. Gas Operations is comprised of approximately 6,000 coworkers.

Position Summary

Acts as a single clearing house for all planned outages on the gas transmission, distribution, and storage system. The primary focus of the job involves writing clearance requests submitted by field personnel to perform work on gas system facilities.

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 hourly rate 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 hourly rate 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.​

The hourly rate for this position ranges from $43.26 to $68.75.

Job Responsibilities

• Serves as single point-of-contact to write clearances for all planned work on the gas system, and  some emergency clearances. Reviews every clearance to ensure necessary information is incorporated to isolate the pipeline/equipment in a manner that is safe for field employees, minimize impact to end use customers, and preserve maximum pipeline and storage capacity for use by transportation marketers and shippers. Company incurs heavy liability if a mistake is made. Provides an authorized clearance package to the clearance supervisor to be used to perform the work.
• Schedules all work to minimize impact to end use customers and transportation revenue. Adheres to agreed schedule timelines and outage duration to reduce conflicts with maintenance and construction manpower/equipment constraints. Schedules all work in coordination with the Facilities Outage Group (FOG) and Long-Term Outage Coordinator.
• Provides written and verbal communications during clearance review process to project team, GPOM, planning and engineering staff, account services reps, and marketing product managers. Prepares a clearance package to include items such as cover letter, maps, modeling information, customer impact information etc. to be utilized by the control room operators.
• Safety is the single most important component of the clearance review process. The clearance review process must ensure that all work can be done in a safe manner to protect employees and the public.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• High School or GED-General Educational Development-GED Diploma
• 3 years of experience in any of the following gas activities: gas maintenance/construction, gas planning, clearance preparation, clearance supervisor; gas maintenance engineering (station/pipeline, division); gas mapping/estimating; operations specialist, and/or project management.
• Attendance at meetings both in-person at field facilities and via conference call.
• Up to 15% travel to attend meetings.

Desired:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of and/or an ability or willingness to learn the gas system clearance process; gas transmission, collection, and storage system operations; gas mapping and GISsystems
• Must have or have the ability to obtain a strong understanding of maintenance and construction practices for various gas facilities including, but not limited to regulation and over-pressure protection devices, compressors, gas processing, pipeline welding practices, and In Line Inspection operations-Strong knowledge of personal computing standard software such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SAP and SharePoint
• Must also possess strong organizational, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and an ability to work with many individuals in gas operations, gas maintenance & construction, gas planning & engineering, marketing & account services