Requisition ID # 148547
Job Category: Engineering / Science
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Business Unit: Electric Engineering
Work Type: Onsite
Job Location: West Sacramento
Department Overview
Electric Asset Management (EAM) Distribution Protection Engineering (DPE) team ensures safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the electric distribution system by providing timely and innovative engineering and technical support associated with the protection, design, programming of our distribution protective devices. EAM DPE is one of the lead engineering groups behind PG&E’s Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings (EPSS) and has overall responsibility for the protection of mainline distribution protection devices throughout PG&E’s territory.
Position Summary
This job is represented by Engineers and Scientists of California (ESC) subject to collective bargaining.
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, $106,956
Maximum, $162,660
Responsibilities
- The Distribution Protection Engineer will provide power systems engineering expertise in protection and coordination analyses on the distribution system. Designing to our Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings (EPSS) guidelines to mitigate wildfire risk throughout the EPSS territory within PG&E (over +1000 circuits & 4500 protective devices). Beyond this territory, design & program circuit specific settings for any/all protective devices on PG&E’s Distribution System.
- Investigate outages that have resulted in ignitions throughout our EPSS territory. Analyzing oscillography and different data sets to understand/explain electrical phenomenon’s during a fault/outage.
- Perform short-circuit and symmetrical analysis, time-overcurrent coordination, relay settings, system modeling and fault analysis for relay device coordination studies.
- Communicate and work with different stakeholders to implement new technologies in the field to alleviate any potential risks.
- Supporting EPSS enablement with database cleanup efforts and querying of the databases to ensure consistency and accuracy for all stakeholders.
Qualifications
Minimum:
- Holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from a college/university accredited by Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET)
Desired:
- 3 years of experience in Power Systems and/or Protection
- Professional Engineering registration
- Proficient Microsoft Office skills
- Power flow model experience
- Python Scripting or SQL coding experience
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
- A healthy environment and carbon-neutral energy system shall be the reality for all Californians
- Our work shall create prosperity for all customers and investors
More About Our Company
EEO
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is an Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity employer that actively pursues and hires a diverse workforce. 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.
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