System Protection Engineer

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; West Sacramento (CA); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Gas and Electric Company in California seeks a journey-level protection engineer to perform routine protection duties with guidance. The role supports transmission and distribution protection, relay settings, and fault analysis, with hybrid work from a remote office and a PG&E location.

The position requires a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and at least 3 years in system protection, with a pathway toward a California PE license.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline from US accredited program.
• 3 years of experience in system protection.
• CA PE license desired.
• Ability to calculate relay settings for all station automatics schemes, transmission line relaying, transformer bank protection, bus protection, generator protection, and breaker failure schemes.
• Thorough knowledge of protective relays, fault analysis, and test procedures.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance to peers and lower-level engineers.
• Perform protection duties for transmission voltages 230 kV and below.
• Handle complex projects including localized protection schemes and MPAC.
• Perform protection duties for distribution voltages.
• Contribute to development of design standards and relay schemes.

Skills

Protection engineering

Relay settings

Fault analysis

Electrical engineering

System protection

CA PE license

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Fault analysis software

Symmetrical components theory

Relay test procedures

Job description

Requisition ID# 172922

Job Category: Engineering / Science

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Energy Delivery

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: West Sacramento

Department Overview

The Electric Engineering Team ensures the delivery of safe and reliable electric service to our customers. Electric Engineering is responsible for every aspect of PG&E's electric distribution and transmission operations, including planning, system protection engineering, maintenance and construction, asset management, business planning, restoration and emergency response.

Position Summary

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

This is a journey-level protection engineer job that requires executing routine protection duties with minimal assistance This position requires a moderate level of training, direction and review of work from more senior engineers and peers. This job is responsible for providing technical protection engineering for routine projects and maintenance/operation support including, but not limited to, issuing protection requirements, relay and automatics settings, processing clearances, and investigating relay operations.

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 salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of thejob posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will bebased 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, $120,888

CA Maximum, $193,020

Job Responsibilities

May perform all the functions of Associate System Protection Engineer and in addition:

• Provide guidance to peers and lower-level engineers
• Perform protection job duties for transmission voltages 230 kV and below
• Handle special and complex projects, such as localized special protection scheme and MPAC
• Perform protection job duties for distribution voltages
• Handle special and complex projects, such as localized special protection scheme, fast distribution bus pickup scheme, tie cable, Switchgear IPAC, etc.
• Participate in development of design standards, new tools and new relay schemes

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited curriculum in the US or the equivalent from outside the US
• 3 years of experience in system protection

Desired

• Current and active California PE license desired
• Ability to calculate relay settings for all station automatics schemes, transmission line relaying, transformer bank protection, bus protection, generator protection, and breaker failure schemes
• Thorough computer application and fault analysis program knowledge
• Knowledge of symmetrical component theory and ability to perform fault calculations.
Basic understanding of logic gate theory and control circuitry
• Knowledge of electric system protection equipment, instrumentation and test procedures
• Ability to analyze relay operations and determine fault locations
• Interprets applicable codes, industry standards and regulations and educates others