Utility Inspector-Underground

Requisition ID # 168839 

Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Electric Operations

Work Type: Onsite

Job Location: Santa Rosa

Department Overview

Electric Operations ensures the delivery of clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to nearly 16 million people in Northern and Central California. The Electric Operations Team is responsible for ensuring the electric grid's reliability and resiliency through the ongoing maintenance and operations of PG&E's 100,000 miles of distribution lines and over 18,000 miles of Transmission lines. Coworkers in Electric Operations actively engage in the Lean Methodology through the use of visual management in operating reviews to cross-functionally identify and solve problems, and create standard work. By working together as One Electric. One Team. We are delivering for our hometowns. Electric Operations is comprised of approximately 6,500 coworkers.

Position Summary

This is an IBEW Local 1245 represented classification, which has over 100 years of experience representing employees at PG&E and is subject to collective bargaining.

This Utility Inspector-Underground performs direct oversight of Applicant or Contractor installed facilities limited to plastic distribution systems and smaller underground projects to ensure compliance with job drawings and specifications; and Company standards and specifications over the entire Company territory.

The position is a General Construction position, and individuals must be able to travel and transfer to a new headquarters upon request at any time; throughout the entire PG&E service territory with no guarantee as to how long you will be away from home.

This position will be utilized to fill vacancies for the North Coast region. The position is headquartered in Santa Rosa or other locations within service territory subject to change based on business needs.

PG&E is providing the hourly rate that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This position is subject to collectively bargained hourly wage rates and increases. The starting wage rate for this position is $ 53.42 per hour.  This wage rate is specific to the locality of the job. The wage rate is 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. 

Job Responsibilities

• Assists in tracking materials, preparing materials receiving reports and logs, or other duties and tasks as needed. Tracks and documents unit quantities, materials used, and project status
• Shall be Operator Qualified (OQ) to perform standby at Applicant or Contractor work sites to ensure that all excavation procedures for damage prevention are followed including all applicable standards; that all required prospecting requirements are followed; and that no mechanical equipment is used around existing facilities
• Performs oversight and inspection of construction projects, Integrity Management digs, potholing and other work as required.
• Acts as a liaison between the customer, contractor and all other workgroups that may be involved in the successful completion of the construction project
• Participates in all Contractor safety and pre-construction tailboard meetings to ensure compliance with Company safety, standards and work procedures.
• Collaborates with the Contractor to promote teamwork and resolve obstacles to the completion of the project in a safe, cost effective, efficient, productive manner, and to minimize rework
• Ensures that equipment and personnel stay on the Right of Way (ROW). Communicates scheduling and scope changes with PG&E management and Contractors as required
• Maintains public and employee safety on site at all times by promoting a positive safety culture, exhibiting an absolute commitment to safety for self and others, and by ensuring all applicable safety rules, regulations and standards are followed
• Monitors and inspects construction activities during: clearing of Right of Way (ROW), installation of Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) and other environmental protection measures, erection of temporary facilities such as fences and other public safety items, site work, excavation, backfill, site restoration, lowering of pipe, unloading and handling of piping materials, pre-excavation, Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and electromagnetic utility location, Electrolysis test station installation, compaction testing, and line markers
• Maintain all required Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) and as-built documentation on site as per PG&E Standards and turn over timely, legible, complete, and error-free to the as-built mapping team at the end of the project

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Electrical experience, 2 years
• Record of 30-hour Cal OSHA safety training completion
• Ability to work flexible schedules, extended hours, nights, weekends, and/or overtime (scheduled or ad hoc)
• Ability and willingness to wear company provided Personal Protective Equipment (PPE
• Must possess and maintain a valid Class C California Driver's License (or higher) by Day 1 of hire

Desired:

• 2 years of inspection job related experience
• Experience at PG&E, job-related, 1 year
•  To better represent the communities, we serve within a timely manner, applicants who live within 50 miles of the headquarters will be given additional consideration
• Experience with computer data entry

Pre-Employment Testing

PG&E Employees: You must have qualified on all prerequisite tests prior to submitting an application, and all secondary tests prior to interviewing. For more information on prerequisite and secondary exams, including study guides, please visit the Pre-employment testing program website.

• Physical Test Battery
• Work Orientation Inventory-Physical/Technical Driving