Critical Facility Architect, Principal - Electrical Engineer
About The Position
The Principal Critical Facility Architect provides technical leadership in the design, development, and implementation of backup power systems, communication rooms, data/control centers, and alarm system deliverables. The primary role involves the electrical design of power systems within PG&E facilities, requiring a State of California Registered Professional Electrical Engineer. This includes electrical design for data centers, communication rooms in offices and service centers, and remote communication locations. The position also covers backup power solutions such as generators, backup batteries, and 48 VDC power plants. Additionally, the critical facility architect will manage building upgrades and replacements for IT-operated facilities, encompassing primary power plants, backup power plants, and building infrastructure, collectively referred to as “power systems”. The role involves providing budgetary estimates for power systems for client and IT projects, collaborating with other architect teams to ensure power systems meet operational needs, and working with corporate real estate and land agents on site selection and specifying IT power needs in shared facilities. The architect will set technical direction and assess the operational feasibility of power system solutions within IT network architecture and services standards to meet defined technical performance requirements. This includes evaluating the need for new power solutions and collaborating with architect teams to create prototypes and standards. The position acts as a technical lead for the critical facility team, engineering team, and project management teams implementing projects within critical facility programs and client projects. All employees are responsible for performing their jobs in accordance with PG&E’s vision and values. This position is hybrid, requiring approximately two days per week in an office within the service territory, with the remaining time worked from a remote office, based on business needs or company requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering, Civil engineering or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
- 10 years experience in IT-Information Technology engineering design, OR Master’s degree and 8 years of experience in IT engineering design and/or technical project implementation
- Experience with multi-tier enterprise technology environments
- Experience in enterprise architecture environments, job-related
Nice To Haves
- Registered Professional Electrical Engineer
- Experience in Radio systems implementation, job-related
- Experience in team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Experience in project management, IT-Information Technology
- Leadership experience
- PMP-Project Management Professional certification
Responsibilities
- Directs critical facility team in preparation of battery, power board, generator, facility alarming, and facility upgrades by utilizing subject-matter expertise.
- Oversees power system architecture and design of technology solutions supporting business requirements on projects.
- Engages with clients to develop power solutions and ensure delivery is aligned with the requirements in technical/logic design.
- Provides advanced consulting and guidance of the power system requirements during the detailed design, build, test, and deploy phases of IT projects.
- Ensures the successful implementation of power systems in complex client environments, larger scale, and cross-functional new/enhanced systems on time, in scope and within budget.
- Leads integration of client requirement into and works with critical facility team to create power system design models, specifications, diagrams, and charts.
- Identifies and implements process improvements at the department level.
- Presents power system project scopes and budgets and makes recommendations to high level leaders for project/program approval.
- Identifies the developmental needs of others, and coaches and mentors others to improve their knowledge or skills.
- Partners with critical facility team to develop and maintains all technical standards, design patterns, reference architectures and roadmaps for a Reference Architecture Framework containing a broad collection of foundational services.
Benefits
- discretionary incentive compensation programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
