Senior Risk Engineer

PG&E•San Ramon, CA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Provides engineering, testing, and analysis services and expertise across multiple disciplines to company organizations to identify, diagnose, and solve technical problems. Consults with clients to proactively prevent future problems and conducts inspections, failure analyses, performance assessments, and evaluations of systems and components. Partners with management to develop bid proposals for requested client work. The position focuses on risk modeling and management. This is a hybrid position, working from a remote office and an assigned work location based on business needs. The Electric Transmission & Distribution organization supports the reliability and resiliency of PG&E’s electric grid, serving nearly 16 million people in Northern and Central California. The organization maintains and operates approximately 100,000 miles of distribution lines and more than 18,000 miles of transmission lines, and includes approximately 6,500 coworkers.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, with emphasis in a discipline related to the assignments, such as mechanical, civil, or electrical engineering.
Five years of job-related experience.
Strong expertise in modeling, statistical approaches, and machine learning approaches.
Travel is required; frequency depends on assignment and ranges from 10% to 75%.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or equivalent experience.
Professional Engineer (PE) license.

Responsibilities

Provide coaching and oversight to lower-level peers and review their test designs for applicability, feasibility, and alignment with project objectives.
Determine customer expectations and ensure project deliverables meet customer satisfaction objectives.
Develop breadth in other specialty areas or deepen expertise in a particular discipline.
Lead complex and innovative tests, with assistance from higher-level peers.
Complete broad, complex assignments requiring information from multiple sources and limited reliance on precedents or standards.
Determine project scope, schedule, budget, and resource needs in a lead role.
Oversee assembly of technical systems and prototypes in accordance with engineering standards and relevant principles.
Modify prototypes, parts, assemblies, and systems to correct functional deviations.
Develop test protocols, models, and technologies, and analyze data.
Evaluate the performance of parts, assemblies, or systems under simulated operating conditions and record results.
Compile test results and prepare presentations and recommendations for clients or ATS leadership.
Represent PG&E at industry association meetings or seminars, as needed.
Prepare client bid estimates with oversight from senior peers and leadership.
Prepare technical reports and specifications to identify, define, and solve problems.
Identify and execute testing or process improvements on an ongoing basis.
Identify innovations and cost-reduction opportunities in new and existing technologies.
Perform risk modeling and management.