Design Engineer, Substation

PG&E • West Sacramento, CA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Design Engineer is a represented individual contributor role in PG&E’s Electric Engineering organization, which supports electric engineering projects for Electric Operations. The position serves as a link between the company and projects involving generation interconnection, increased residential, commercial, and industrial capacity demand, and system reliability improvements in California. The role coordinates engineering information and develops designs for electric substation facilities, including equipment relocations and replacements, capacity additions, and reliability and automation improvements. It interfaces with other disciplines, reviews existing facilities, and develops conceptual designs. The position is hybrid, working from a remote office and an assigned work location within the PG&E Service Territory based on business need. Travel is approximately 10%. The role is represented by Engineers and Scientists of California (ESC) and is subject to collective bargaining. The stated hourly rate range is $46.94 to $78.14, subject to collectively bargained wage increases.

Requirements

• Hold a BS in Electrical Engineering, or meet an equivalent education and experience pathway: education and design drafting experience totaling six years, or education and experience totaling four years including two years at PG&E as a Design Drafter or Senior Design Drafter.
• Possess and maintain a valid Class C California Driver’s License or higher by the first day of hire.

Nice To Haves

• PE or EIT certification.
• Experience in electric substation design using AutoCAD.
• Fluency with Microsoft Office, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access.

Responsibilities

• Promote safe practices and conduct in accordance with Corporate Safety policy and help accomplish the department goal of zero injuries and avoidable auto incidents.
• Foster teamwork and innovation and adopt approaches that make work more efficient and effective.
• Coordinate studies, sketches, computations, and other complex project information for engineering and construction of electric substation facilities.
• Coordinate designs involving equipment relocations and replacements, capacity additions, and reliability and automation improvements.
• Interface with other disciplines, such as civil and protection engineering; review existing facilities and develop conceptual designs.
• Prepare electrical substation design drawings using AutoCAD, including drawings for indoor and outdoor equipment, single-line diagrams, meter and relay diagrams, AC and DC schematics, control room layouts, switchboard arrangements, station services, outdoor general arrangements, conduits, and grounding.
• Prepare bills of materials, circuit and conduit schedules, reports, and presentations using Microsoft Office and other applications.
• Conduct design review meetings with project teams.
• Deliver high-quality design products on budget, on time, and on purpose.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level