Fresno

Pacific Gas And Electric Company•West Sacramento, CA

10d•$155,000 - $277,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Oversees the protection systems installed and owned by PG&E. Manages the teams that specify, design, and apply protective relay packages for reliable and secure operation of distribution systems. Provides system support for departments that interface with protection schemes. Develops testing procedures. Performs fault and disturbance analysis, system modeling, documentation maintenance, training and audits of protection equipment. Coordinates information exchange with other utilities and regulatory bodies. This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and West Sacramento/San Ramon/Fresno based on business needs. PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in System Protection or specific to the field of electrical power.
7 years of protection engineering experience

Nice To Haves

Masters Degree in Engineering-Electrical or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
Experience in working with union-represented employees
Experience in substations
Experience in protection testing and commissioning
Experience in grid operations
Leadership experience, job-related
PE-Professional Engineer license
LSS-Lean Six Sigma Certification
PMI-Project Management Institute PMP-Project Management Professional certification

Responsibilities

Acts as a technical lead, reviews diagrams, relay settings and protection requirements prior to implementation. Advises on the programming of microprocessor devices. Analyzes events and writes reports.
Coaches, develops, and leads the System Protection Engineering team to achieve the department goals and the individual members’ development objectives.
Contributes to group financial performance by monitoring budget, controlling costs, engineering time sheets, and reviewing and approving expenses.
Coordinates with engineers to manage workload and accomplish specific performance objectives set for system availability, project completion, special assignments, and new technologies.
Enforces procedures and related documentation processes to ensure compliance with regulatory standards including CAISO, WECC, NERC, and FERC. Interacts effectively with external entities as needed.
Ensures team can support operations in fault location activities by retrieving relay data, using fault studies and working with operation and maintenance personnel to gather data and locate the fault.
Ensures that protection engineering team has resources and tools available to support customer outage restoration 24/7 with emphasis on expedited restoration.
Ensures that quality is a priority and human performance errors are identified, lessons learned disseminated and standards and guidelines are followed.
Manages and executes relay upgrades and replacement capitol project.
May develop standards (schematics including equipment selection and required inputs and outputs) for System Protection.
May provide customer support for interconnection customers such as generation or large-scale distribution.
Participates in the clearance process of equipment to be isolated, making sure there is adequate protection.
Supervises 7-14 direct reports including engineers and support staff
Supports Operations, Substation Engineering, Test Department, Electric Technicians.
Supports the identification of work to create a sustainable and highly reliable protection and control system at PG&E by providing input on five-year plan and prioritization of work.
Lead the System Protection Public Safety Power Shutoff technical team.
Supervised Protection Engineers working on the technical requirements for Islanding protection schemes.
Work closely with PG&E Investigation Team and PG&E legal team in preparing responses for data request due to wildfires in PG&E.
Provide responses to PG&E Data Response Unit, reviewed reports from PG&E legal team for accuracy and help provide responses to CPUC and Cal Fire investigators.