ATS Engineer, Senior (AI-Datacenter integration expertise desired)
About The Position
The ATS Engineer, Senior works within Applied Technology Services (ATS), which provides engineering, testing, and analysis services across multiple disciplines to help company organizations identify, diagnose, and solve technical problems. ATS also advises clients on ways to prevent future problems by recommending industry best-practice equipment, materials, and methods. Its services include inspections, failure analysis, performance assessments, and evaluations of a wide variety of systems and components. The engineering staff partners with management on bid proposals and follows company and regulatory safety and quality procedures. This role develops engineering strategies and leads research, development, testing, and analysis related to integrating data centers and other emerging loads and technologies with the electric grid. It evaluates effects on transmission and distribution systems and addresses planning, reliability, resilience, and interconnection challenges. The position also leads complex projects, oversees technical systems and prototypes, prepares technical reports and client recommendations, and provides some coaching and oversight to lower-level peers. The role is hybrid and located in Danville.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, with emphasis in a discipline related to the assignments, such as mechanical, civil, or electrical engineering.
- Five years of related experience.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license.
- Broad understanding of engineering research and testing concepts, theories, practices, methods, and techniques in an area of specialty, as well as a general understanding of other engineering specialties.
- Understanding of quality assurance and control concepts and practices.
- Strong investigative and analytical problem-solving skills.
- Excellent organizational and project management skills.
- Team leadership competency and proficiency.
- Communication, presentation, and teamwork skills.
- Good customer service orientation.
Responsibilities
- Develop technical strategies for integrating data centers, distributed energy resources, microgrids, flexible loads, and load-management technologies.
- Evaluate the impacts of emerging data center loads on transmission and distribution systems.
- Lead research and development initiatives focused on data center integration with the electric grid, including load growth, transmission and distribution planning, grid reliability and resilience, and interconnection requirements.
- Provide some coaching and oversight to lower-level peers, including reviewing their test designs for applicability, feasibility, and likelihood of meeting project objectives.
- Determine customer expectations and ensure project deliverables meet customer satisfaction objectives.
- Expand knowledge in other specialty areas or develop greater expertise and specialization in a particular area.
- Lead complex and innovative tests with assistance from higher-level peers.
- Complete broad and complex assignments with few precedents or standards, integrating information from a variety of sources.
- Lead determination of project scope, schedule, budget, and resource needs.
- Oversee assembly of technical systems and prototypes according to engineering standards and related principles, and modify prototypes, parts, assemblies, and systems to correct functional deviations.
- Develop test protocols, models, and technologies; analyze data; evaluate performance under simulated operating conditions; and record results.
- Compile test results and prepare presentations and recommendations for clients or ATS leadership.
- Represent PG&E at industry association meetings or seminars, as needed.
- Prepare estimates for client bid proposals with oversight from senior peers and leadership.
- Prepare technical reports and specifications to identify, define, and solve problems.
- Continually identify and execute testing or process improvements.
- Identify innovation and cost-reduction opportunities in new and existing technologies.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
