Electric Distribution Engineer, Associate

Requisition # 169653

Job Category:
Engineering / Science

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit:
Electric Engineering

Work Type:
Hybrid

Job Location:

Oakland

The hardworking coworkers of Electric Engineering Planning and Strategy ensure all manners of electric engineering including electric planning, standards, engineering, regulatory compliance, asset management and electric investment planning are in place to safely enable a strategic and stable workplan for our Electric Operations partners. Our organization is accountable for program planning, financial budgeting, and project execution and delivery of all electric engineering projects.

Electric Engineering is comprised of approximately 2,000 coworkers.

This entry-level job is represented by Engineers and Scientists of California (ESC), subject to collective bargaining.

The Associate Engineer in Asset Strategy is responsible for development and implementation of simple distribution overhead asset management projects and programs. The Associate level engineer job works under the general technical direction of more experienced engineers or management. With oversight, they will be expected to define scope, create a plan, and scheduling the work to meet significant goals. The ideal candidate will support senior engineers in developing, managing and improving performance of the electric distribution assets from a long and short-term, asset performance, capacity, and reliability, perspective.

They will assist other engineers, team members, and management by developing, compiling, and providing technical data. This role will be responsible for updating and managing databases. An ideal candidate would have experience with statistical analysis and data interpretation with the ability to present complex data and technical information in a simple and easy to understand manner. The Associate Engineer will assist with internal and external requests.

This will include participating in 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. The Associate Engineer will utilize engineering first principles, their expertise, and scientific work methods to identify, diagnose and solve technical problems. An ideal candidate will have some experience in distribution electric design and planning engineering with experience in using engineering modeling tools (e.g., CYME, Pole load calculations).

They should have basic knowledge of distribution conductors, support structures, transformers, protection equipment, and switching equipment. An ideal candidate will have some familiarity of asset life cycle principles. The associate engineer will be expected to raise questions and provide ideas on potential engineering and technical solutions by using existing tools, methods and approaches or by making minor modifications and improvements.

The responsibility level of this position increases with experience. Travel will be required 10-30% of the time throughout the PG&E service territory.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

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:

Minimum, $95,172

Maximum, $142,956

• 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.
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