ATS Engineer, Expert (AI-Datacenter integration expertise desired)
About The Position
The ATS Engineer, Expert provides engineering, testing, and analysis services across multiple disciplines to help company organizations identify, diagnose, and solve technical problems. The role consults with clients to prevent future problems by recommending industry best practices for equipment, materials, and methods. ATS work includes inspections, failure analysis, performance assessments, and evaluations of systems and components. The engineer also partners with management on bid proposals and follows company and regulatory safety and quality requirements. This position develops technical strategies for integrating data centers and other emerging loads and resources with the electric grid. It leads research and development, evaluates effects on transmission and distribution systems, and manages complex projects and programs from scope and schedule through budget and communications. The role is an expert in an ATS discipline, leads and mentors engineers and technicians, develops testing approaches, oversees technical systems and prototypes, and presents findings and recommendations to clients and industry audiences. It also identifies business opportunities, process improvements, and technology innovations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering in a discipline related to the assignments, such as mechanical, civil, or electrical engineering.
- 7 years of related experience.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license.
- Expertise in engineering research and testing concepts, theories, practices, methods, and techniques in an area of specialty; may have a thorough understanding of other engineering specialties.
- Knowledge of current and emerging technologies used in technical testing in the area of specialty.
- Thorough understanding of quality assurance and control concepts and practices.
- Expertise in investigative and analytical problem-solving methods and techniques.
- Excellent organizational skills for monitoring and leading technical tests.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills for delivering findings and recommendations to audiences ranging from field operations to senior leadership.
- Project management and team leadership skills.
- Strong customer-service orientation and ability to adapt project plans and team leadership to customer needs.
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.
- Mentor and direct teams of engineers and engineering technicians with diverse backgrounds.
- Develop and execute practical solutions to highly complex problems independently.
- Build relationships with partner functional areas to assess client business interests and identify potential ATS opportunities.
- Identify and execute business, laboratory, testing, and process improvements.
- Independently lead and manage projects and programs, taking ownership of scope, schedule, budget, and communications.
- Oversee assembly of technical systems and prototypes according to engineering standards and related principles.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in an ATS discipline or service, perform work across disciplines and functional areas, and develop test plans and procedures.
- Perform engineering analysis and project work in laboratory, field, and desktop applications.
- Provide expert opinions or information to external customers, agencies, and other parties as needed.
- Represent PG&E as an external engineering expert, including speaking at conferences or seminars and potentially writing trade-journal articles.
- Prepare and deliver project presentations and recommendations, adapting communications to audiences ranging from field operations to senior leadership.
- Use independent judgment to lead and resolve high-impact, complex problems with few precedents or standards.
- Lead teams in determining project and program scope, schedule, and budget and preparing client bid proposals; manage a business-unit budget.
- Assess business conditions and develop projects and solutions from a multifunctional or multidisciplinary perspective.
- Modify prototypes, parts, assemblies, and systems to correct functional deviations.
- Develop, evaluate, and deploy technologies; 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
