Design Engineer, Electric Transmission Line

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is seeking a Transmission Line Design Engineer in the Oakland area. This hybrid role connects remote work with the assigned service territory to deliver reliable electric transmission projects.

You will design transmission structures, coordinate multidisciplinary reviews, and prepare drawings in MicroStation and PLS-CADD while ensuring safety and compliance with PG&E standards. Travel up to 10% is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent by June 2026, or combination of education and six years' design drafting/engineering experience.
• Must possess and maintain a valid Class C California Driver's License by day 1 of hire.
• PE/EIT certification is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Actively promote safe practices and conduct in accordance with the Corporate Safety policy.
• Achieve the department goal of zero injuries and avoidable auto incidents.
• Foster teamwork and innovation to complete work efficiently.
• Coordinate project information for engineering and construction of electric transmission facilities.
• Prepare Electrical Transmission design drawings using MicroStation, and PLS-CADD.
• Prepare bill of materials, conductor studies, reports, and presentations.

Skills

Electrical design

Transmission design

Design review

Team collaboration

Driver's license

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Equivalent education/experience

Tools

MicroStation

AutoCAD

PLS-CADD

Job description

Department Overview

The hardworking coworkers of Electric Engineering ensure all manners of electric engineering- including electric standards and process safety, electric design engineering, instrumentation testing and controls, undergrounding, electric regulatory compliance 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.

Requisition ID # 174231

Job Category: Engineering / Science

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Energy Delivery

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Position Summary

This position is represented by Engineers and Scientist of California (ESC) subject to collective bargaining.

As a Transmission Line Design Engineer, you will be the vital link between the Company and widespread interconnection of generation; increase in capacity demand (residential, commercial and industrial); and system reliability improvements in California. Your role will be to ensure that the Company provides excellent service for these projects.

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

PG&E is providing the hourly rate 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 hourly rate 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 agreement, and internal equity.

Under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement, the hourly rate range for this position is $46.94 to $78.14, subject to collectively bargained wage increases.

Job Responsibilities

• Actively promote safe practices and conduct in accordance with the Corporate Safety policy.
• Accomplish the department goal of zero injuries & avoidable auto incidents.
• Foster teamwork, innovation and embrace new approaches to accomplish our work more efficiently and effectively.
• Coordinate project information (studies, sketches, computations, other complex data) for the engineering and construction of electric transmission facilities including equipment relocations and replacements, capacity additions, reliability, and automation improvements. This involves interfacing with other disciplines (such as civil, substation and protection engineers), and reviewing existing facilities and developing conceptual designs.
• Prepare Electrical Transmission design drawings using MicroStation & PLS-CADD software. Drawings include structure requirement drawings, structure data sheets, plan and profile drawings, stringing drawings, arrangement drawings, hardware drawings, phasing drawings, etc.
• Prepare bill of materials, conductor studies, reports, and presentations using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and other applications.
• Conduct design review meetings with project teams.
• Provide Construction Administration assistance to the Responsible Engineer, including review of shop drawings, RFIs and submittals.
• Ensure delivery of high-quality design products on budget, on time, and on purpose.
• Foster teamwork and innovation and embrace new approaches to accomplish our work more efficiently and effectively.
• Travel 10% of the time.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or graduating with a bachelor of engineering by June 2026; OR, its equivalent in education and experience, to include education and design drafting experience totaling six years, or education and experience totaling four years including two years at PG&E as a Design Drafter or Senior Design Drafter
• Must possess and maintain a valid Class C California Driver's License (or higher) by day 1 of hire

Desired:

• Experience in electric transmission design
• Skilled in MicroStation or AutoCAD or PLS-CADD
• Familiarity with PG&E standards and construction practices
• PE/EIT certification