Electric Distribution Engineer

Pacific Gas And Electric Company • Fresno, CA

1d • $120,888 - $183,840 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Electric Engineering department is responsible for ensuring all aspects of electric engineering, including standards, process safety, design, instrumentation, controls, undergrounding, regulatory compliance, and investment planning, are in place to support a strategic and stable work plan for Electric Operations partners. This organization manages program planning, financial budgeting, and project execution for all electric engineering projects. The Electric Engineering department consists of approximately 2,000 employees.

This position is hybrid, requiring 3 days per week (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays) at an assigned work location within the PG&E Service Territory, with the remaining days worked remotely. The role is represented by Engineers and Scientists of California (ESC) and is subject to collective bargaining. PG&E provides a salary range of $120,888 (minimum) to $183,840 (maximum) annually, which may vary based on factors such as skills, education, licenses, experience, market value, location, and collective bargaining agreements.

Requirements

• Holds a degree in Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering from a college/university accredited by Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET)

Nice To Haves

• Studied power systems
• 3 years of experience in engineering
• Professional engineering registration
• Basic Microsoft Office skills
• CYME experience
• Python Scripting experience

Responsibilities

• Submits long term and short-term reconstruction, capacity and reliability plan recommendations; manages projects within their local area of $100,000 or less; and reviews and recommends job estimates within DPA for capacity and reliability.
• Monitors area substation and circuit capabilities and track corresponding loads. Prepares proposals, including justification, for appropriate corrective actions to address deficiencies found.
• Performs planning studies to correctly model the electric distribution system and works with Mapping to ensure discrepancies are corrected in associated records system. Analyzes historical loads and project future growth. Prepares long term and short-term plans to identify and correct area deficiencies. Prepares draft Preliminary Planning Reviews (PPR’s). Identifies alternatives to address deficiencies for Project Analysis (PA’s). Reviews and analyzes area distribution systems and takes appropriate actions to maintain power factor and primary voltage within established standards. Determines circuit and associated equipment capabilities within the assigned DPA.
• Prepares and initiate switching plans to alleviate normal and minimize emergency deficiencies. Prepares necessary documentation about distribution needs for estimating to complete job packages. Prepares settings for load tap changers and other line equipment. Reviews requests for new large customer load additions or increases in voltage and recommend actions to correct any deficiencies. Provides direction and reviews primary designs proposed by estimating to ensure adequate capacity and reliability. Prepares settings for distribution protective devices. Performs circuit protection reviews and makes recommendations for corrections. Determines protection requirements for rule 20, WRO projects and other major distribution projects which could impact the existing protective scheme. Prepares settings for Distribution Automation (DA) devices affecting distribution protection, voltage or emergency switching.
• Initiates service dependability solutions and actively participates in local reliability / root cause meetings. Works closely with construction to prioritize outage prevention work within DPA, addresses customer complaints (Help Tickets) for recurring outages as assigned. Prepares initial responses for CPUC complaints for recurring outages. Supports local DO’s, DEC, construction, or storm room in emergency restoration efforts as required. Provide technical, address customer voltage complaints caused by primary voltage problems. When requested, address customer EMF requests involving distribution facilities as assigned, assist E&M and OM&C personnel to address customer voltage complaints caused by secondary voltage problems. Supports estimating, construction, and other departments as required. Reviews, modifies, and recommends switching clearances for feeders, banks and stations as requested by DO’s. Address customer EMF requests involving distribution facilities as assigned. Reviews switching arrangements, equipment settings, voltage levels, power factor needs, etc. to ensure the distribution system is operated in the most efficient manner.
• Prepare EASOP (economic analysis) for projects in DPA. Prepare other engineering analysis as assigned. Provide supervisor on-call support as required; maintain equipment records as assigned.

What This Job Offers

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