Senior, Electric Distribution Engineer, Asset Strategy Engineering - Oakland
About The Position
The Senior Electric Distribution Engineer works within PG&E’s Electric Transmission and Distribution Engineering organization and Electric Asset Management team. The organization plans, designs, and manages the electric system to provide safe, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective service. Asset Management develops and executes strategies for the value, performance, safety, reliability, and lifecycle management of electric system assets, balancing safety, reliability, resiliency, regulatory compliance, risk reduction, and cost effectiveness. The position requires mastery of Electric Distribution Engineer skills and duties. It provides technical, planning, and project implementation support for substation, distribution, distribution network systems, and/or distributed generation to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient electric power system operation. The engineer works independently on broad and complex assignments, applies extensive power systems engineering knowledge to resolve complex problems, and evaluates strategies and opportunities to improve company performance. This is a hybrid position, working from a remote office and an assigned work location based on business needs. It is an ESC Local 20 represented exempt classification currently subject to collective bargaining.
Requirements
- BSEE, MSEE, or PhD in Electrical Engineering from an ABET-accredited college or university, or equivalent education from outside the United States.
- At least seven years of experience in electrical power engineering and design. An active California Professional Engineer license or an MSEE credits one year of experience; no more than two years of qualifying experience may be credited through having both a PE and MSEE.
Nice To Haves
- Active California PE license.
- Experience in Distribution Equipment Life Cycle Asset Management.
- Skill in data analytics.
- Experience in reliability analysis and improvement.
- Experience in power systems, power flow analysis, power system theory, voltage stability, and transmission, substation, and distribution planning.
Responsibilities
- Independently perform Electric Distribution Engineer duties and complete broad, complex assignments with limited guidance.
- Apply extensive knowledge of power systems engineering concepts, principles, and practices to resolve complex problems.
- Evaluate and identify strategies, plans, and opportunities to improve company performance.
- Expand knowledge into other specialties or further develop expertise in a particular area.
- Provide oversight, direction, coordination, guidance, and support to operations or engineering personnel on work execution and compliance with company and industry standards, as needed.
- Approve Distribution Planning Area load forecasts and determine and approve final load growth regression models for load growth studies.
- Participate in prioritization and funding for distribution programs.
- Prepare system-wide analyses and recommendations for targeted distribution work.
- Communicate with regulators, customers, and other external stakeholders as assigned.
- Provide data to support General Rate Case efforts, regulatory proceedings, and data requests as assigned.
- Lead capacity planning and load forecasting processes and identify Distributed Energy Resource services as assigned.
- Support and drive the Outage Review process; lead regional outage review team meetings, including development of reliability reports, as assigned.
- Lead distribution automation initiatives as assigned.
- Support benchmarking with other utilities as assigned.
- Provide technical training, coaching, and mentoring to other engineers as assigned.
- Revise work processes, asset strategy, risk analysis, standards, program management, data analytics, and committee or special-assignment work as assigned.
- Develop metrics and performance targets for reliability and system performance, along with methods and procedures for providing those metrics.
- Prepare regulatory reliability reports and support General Rate Case efforts and other regulatory proceedings as an asset program assistant; respond to related data requests as required.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
