Data Analysis, Insights & Automation Intern

Jobs at Pacific Gas And Electric Company•Oakland, CA

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Data Analysis, Insights & Automation Internship position is part of the Visual Management & Insight Services team supporting Electric Risk & Compliance. This role is heavily focused on Power Automate–driven automation, supported by Power BI and related Power Platform tools. The intern will help explore and apply emerging AI-enabled tools and techniques to help streamline analytics, improve insight generation, and reduce manual effort in recurring reporting and analytical workflows. The role involves identifying manual, repetitive analytical and reporting tasks, designing and implementing Power Automate workflows that standardize and automate insight delivery, and improving the reliability, consistency, and timeliness of recurring analysis.

Requirements

Pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD degree in Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Electric Engineering or related field at an accredited University
Students must be continuing their education towards degree during and/or after the internship
Must have reliable transportation to and from work location

Nice To Haves

Strong interest in automation, process improvement, and scalable analytics
Hands on experience or coursework using Microsoft Power Platform, especially: Power Automate (workflow design, triggers, actions), Power BI / Power Query (analysis and data preparation), Power Apps (basic familiarity or interest)
Experience identifying opportunities to replace manual processes with automated workflows
Strong analytical thinking with the ability to connect insights with automated processes
Strong communication skills to explain automated processes to nontechnical audiences
Comfortable collaborating with analysts and stakeholders to refine automation needs
Takes initiative and can work independently with minimal direction
Interest in risk, compliance, or regulated environments, particularly within electric utilities

Responsibilities

Identify manual and repetitive analytical or reporting tasks within Electric Risk & Compliance
Design and build Power Automate flows to trigger recurring data refreshes or analysis, automate notifications, reminders, and status updates, move and structure data between systems and tools, and standardize recurring insight and reporting outputs.
Support automation tied to operating review cadence, leadership visibility, and compliance tracking.
Document automated workflows, underlying logic, and dependencies to ensure long-term sustainment.
Analyze Electric Risk & Compliance data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities leveraging AI.
Perform exploratory and ad hoc analysis to support stakeholder requests.
Translate analytical findings into concise insights that can be operationalized or automated.
Support root cause and trend analysis related to compliance performance.
Use Power BI and Power Query to support automated data preparation and analysis.
Support Power Apps (where applicable) to enable structured data input or workflow initiation.
Partner with analysts to ensure automated outputs align with reporting and insight needs.
Work with Electric Risk & Compliance partners to understand where automation adds value.
Explain automated solutions, insights, and outputs to nontechnical stakeholders.
Prepare short summaries or walkthroughs describing what is automated, why it matters, and how outputs are used.