Expert Protection Engineer- 500kV RAS

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; San Ramon (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary incentive compensation

Job summary

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is seeking a seasoned Electrical Engineer to oversee protection and control for transmission and distribution systems. The role involves specifying, designing, and applying protective relay packages to ensure reliable and secure operation of 500kV assets, with testing, modeling, and audits of protection equipment.

The position is hybrid, requiring an average of two days per week in the San Ramon office or as business needs demand.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• 9 years experience in system protection.

Responsibilities

• Searches and solves highly complex problems in protection systems.
• Identifies opportunities to improve system performance via protection schemes.
• Documents processes and technical specifications for protection schemes.
• Supports multiple internal and external clients as a second tier of support.
• Plans, designs, and architects complete protection systems.
• Acts as SME in protection areas and guides junior engineers.

Skills

Protection systems

Fault analysis

Engineering analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Position Summary

Oversees all aspects of System and Substation Protection and Control and Remedial Action Schemes, specified, installed and owned by PG&E. Specifies, designs, and applies protective relay packages for reliable and secure operation of transmission and distribution systems (500kv). Provides system support for departments that interface with protection schemes. Develops testing procedures. Performs fault and disturbance analysis, system modeling, documentation maintenance, and audits of protection equipment. Coordinates information exchange with other utilities and regulatory bodies.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and the San Ramon office an average of 2 days a week or as business needs require.

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.

Bay Minimum: $147,000

Bay Area Mid: $199,000
Bay Maximum: $251,000

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

Job Responsibilities

• Searches and discovers practical solutions to highly complex problems.
• Identifies and implements opportunities to improve company performance via operations system performance and related activities.
• Documents processes and technical specifications for the system protection schemes.
• Manages multiple internal and external clients and acts as a second tier of support to less senior engineers.
• Plans, architects and designs complete systems in development.
• Acts as Subject Matter Expert (SME) in one or more protection areas and provides oversight to less senior engineers.
• Independently completes assignments of broad scope and complexity with few precedents or standards, and assignments that require integration of information from a variety of sources.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering-Electrical or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• Experience in system protection, 9 years

Desired:

• Masters Degree in Engineering-Electrical or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• PE-Professional Engineer license
• Record of membership in IEEE-Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers