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City of Edmond

Electric Distribution Engineer

Edmond, OK · On-site

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Iberdrola

Lead Engineer - Electric System

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National Grid

Substation Worker C

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$53.86/hr

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National Grid

Substation Worker C

Watertown, NY · On-site

$53.86/hr

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Evergy

Substation Physical Design Engineer

Kansas City, MO · On-site

$83K - $104K/yr

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Evergy

Substation Physical Design Engineer

Kansas City, MO · On-site

$83K - $104K/yr

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Senior Electric Distribution Engineer, Asset Strategy Engineering - Oakland

Oakland, CA • On-site

Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Utilities • 10K+ employees
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$161K - $207K/yr

Full-time

Posted 29 days ago

Pacific Gas and Electric Company rating

9.0

Company rating: 9.0 out of 10

Based on 47 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

6th of 54 rated energy and utility

Job description

Requisition ID # 173277
Job Category: Engineering / Science
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Business Unit: Energy Delivery
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Oakland
Department Overview
The Electric Transmission and Distribution (T&D) Engineering organization ensures that PG&E's electric system is planned, designed, and managed to provide safe, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective service to customers throughout Northern and Central California. The organization develops engineering solutions and long-term asset strategies that support the reliability, safety, and resilience of PG&E's transmission, distribution, and substation systems.
PG&E's Electric Asset Management team is responsible for developing and executing strategies that maximize the value, performance, safety, reliability, and lifecycle management of PG&E's electric system assets. Asset Management ensures PG&E's transmission, distribution, substation, and supporting electric assets are managed throughout their entire lifecycle in a manner that balances safety, reliability, resiliency, regulatory compliance, risk reduction, and cost effectiveness. They partner with internal departments and cross-functional teams to establish the safest, most reliable, and cost-effective electric distribution infrastructure system and may communicate with regulators, customers and other external stakeholders to advance PG&E's objectives.
Position Summary
This is an ESC Local 20 represented exempt classification currently subject to collective bargaining.
The Senior Electric Distribution Engineer job requires mastery of the Electric Distribution Engineer skills and duties. This position ensures the safe, reliable and efficient operation of the electric power system by providing technical, planning and project implementation support for substation, distribution, distribution network systems, and/or distributed generation. The responsibility level of this position increases with experience and demonstrated ability.
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need.
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, collective bargaining agreements, and internal equity.
The annual salary range is:
CA Minimum, $161,520
CA Maximum, $207,504
Job Responsibilities
The Senior Electric Distribution Engineer is able to independently perform the job duties of an Electric Distribution engineer, and in addition:
  • Works with limited guidance to complete assignments of broad scope and complexity with few precedents or standards, and assignments that require integration of information from a variety of sources.
  • Applies extensive knowledge of concepts, principles, and practices in power systems engineering to resolve complex problems.
  • Evaluates and identifies strategies, plans and opportunities to improve Company performance.
  • Expands breadth of knowledge to other areas of specialty or further develops expertise and specialization in one area.
  • May provide oversight, direction, coordination and collaboration, guidance and support to operations personnel and/or engineering personnel on work execution and/or compliance with Company and industry standards (e.g. certifications).
  • Approves Distribution Planning Area (DPA) load forecast. Determines and approves final load growth regression mode for load growth studies.
  • Participates in prioritization and funding for distribution programs.
  • Prepares system wide analysis and recommendations for targeted distribution work.
  • As assigned, assist in communicating with regulators, customers and other external stakeholders to advance PG&E's objectives.
  • As assigned, provide data to support General Rate Case efforts, regulatory proceedings and data requests.
  • As assigned, lead the capacity planning and load forecasting process, and lead effort to identify Distributed Energy Resources (DER) services.
  • As assigned, support and drive Outage Review process, lead regional outage review team (ORT) meetings including development of necessary reliability reports.
  • As assigned, lead distribution automation initiatives.
  • As assigned, support benchmarking with other utilities.
  • As assigned, provide technical training, coaching and mentoring to lower level engineers.
  • As assigned, work on revising work processes, asset strategy, risk analysis, standards updates, program management, data analytics, committees and special assignments.
  • As assigned, develop metrics and performance targets that track reliability and system performance as well as the methods and procedures for providing these metrics.
  • May be assigned to prepare regulatory reliability reports, support General Rate Case efforts and other regulatory proceedings as an asset program assistant. Responds to associated data requests as required.

Qualifications
Minimum:
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET-accredited college or university. Other engineering disciplines may be considered by the interview panel.
  • Minimum of eight (8) years of experience in electrical power engineering and design.

Desired:
  • Active California PE license.
  • Experience in Distribution Equipment Life Cycle Asset Management.
  • Skilled 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.

Purpose, Virtues and Stands
Our Purpose explains "why" we exist:
  • Delivering for our hometowns
  • Serving our planet
  • Leading with love

Our Virtues capture "who" we need to be:
  • Trustworthy
  • Empathetic
  • Curious
  • Tenacious
  • Nimble
  • Owners

Our Stands are "what" we will achieve together:
  • Everyone and everything is always safe
  • Catastrophic wildfires shall stop
  • It is enjoyable to work with and for PG&E
  • Clean and resilient energy for all
  • Our work shall create prosperity for all customers and investors

More About Our Company
EEO
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that actively pursues and hires a workforce that reflects the hometowns we serve. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability status, medical condition, protected veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other factor that is not related to the job.
Employee Privacy Notice The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect on January 1, 2020. CCPA grants new and far-reaching privacy rights to all California residents. The law also entitles job applicants, employees and non-employee workers to be notified of what personal information PG&E collects and for what purpose. The Employee Privacy Notice can be accessed through the following link: Employee Privacy Notice
PG&E will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in a manner consistent with all state and local laws.

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