Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Engineer

• Provide protection engineering support for projects and studies
• Issue protection requirements and prepare description of operations for non-standard and localized RAS schemes
• Conduct short circuit studies, calculate short circuit line impedance
• Determine and issue relay and automatics settings
• Support relay system installations, such as review test program, end-to-end test, load check, direction check, relay release, etc.
• Conduct area coordination studies
• Participate in project walkdown and project meetings
• Provide construction drawing reviews
• Update and maintain records, such as Aspen relay data base, transformer data sheet, short circuit base case, hard copy files, and automatics data base, job files, port assignment sheets, breaker files, etc.
• Review and approve new tools and training prior to rollout
• Design and set localized RAS schemes based on Operation Engineering requirements
• Identify existing protection deficiencies
• Provide fault location
• Investigate questionable relay operations, perform remote event retrieval, and implement corrective actions
• Process clearance request and provide specific protection setup
• Assist technicians, operators for routine maintenance and operation work
• Provide project and routine M&O support to Hydro generation
• Manage digital fault recorders and perform event retrieval
• Conduct FERC generation interconnection studies and third-party load interconnections

Associate System Protection Engineer

• Provide protection engineering support for projects and studies.
• The engineer may perform the following job duties for transmission voltages 230 kV and below:
• Issue protection requirements and prepare description of operations for non-standard and localized RAS schemes
• Conduct short circuit studies, calculate short circuit line impedance
• Determine and issue relay and automatics settings
• Support relay system installations, such as review test program, end-to-end test, load check, direction check, relay release, etc.
• Conduct area coordination studies
• Participate in project walkdown and project meetings
• Provide construction drawing reviews
• Update and maintain records, such as Aspen relay data base, transformer data sheet, short circuit base case, hard copy files, and automatics data base, job files, port assignment sheets, breaker files, etc.
• Review and approve new tools and training prior to rollout
• Design and set localized RAS schemes based on Operation Engineering requirements
• Identify existing protection deficiencies
• Provide normal and emergency maintenance and operation support.

Communications

• Work safely and promote safety for yourself and others.
• Keep PG&E's communication systems operational to support both business and communication networks needed to provide electricity to our customers.
• Work with our Telecommunication Control Center to ensure that outages are minimized, and clients are informed through a clearance process.
• Provide maintenance and repair of these systems in a timely and professional manner.
• Report problems to local management and escalate issues as need be.

Apprentice Communication Tech

• Work safely and promote safety for yourself and others
• Keep PG&E's communication systems operational to support both business and communication networks needed to provide electricity to our customers
• Work with our Telecommunication Control Center to ensure that outages are minimized, and clients are informed through a clearance process
• Provide maintenance and repair of these systems in a timely and professional manner
• Report problems to local management and escalate issues as need be
• Learn to install, calibrate, troubleshoot & replace various telemetry equipment to maintain the integrity of our canals and power houses
• Learn to Install and maintain pressure, level & flow instrumentation
• Learn to install and maintain remote solar system
• Learn to install and maintain network routers and switches
• Learn to install and maintain comm circuits and equipment related to SCADA and electric protection

Network Operations

• Responds to network alerts and computing problems and works remotely to resolve them
• Utilizes support from technical experts within the organization and third parties to resolve problems
• Takes responsibility for handling incidents through completion or escalation
• Finalizes the task according to company policies for incident management
• Documents the problems encountered and techniques used to solve it for future reference
• Monitor network devices, interfaces and applications through intelligent devices and automated programs as directed
• Initiate major outage communication technical bridges as requested
• Isolate and correlate multiple customer issues identified with alarms / alerts received to eliminate duplication of events as instructed
• Issue initial outage notification event communications as directed
• Manage alarms and alerts received from existing monitoring programs with previously defined business rules
• Escalate incidents as needed if not well-defined by Run Books or work instructions
• Apply fix procedures as instructed for repetitive events as instructed
• Monitor network, applications, and systems across the PGE enterprise for alarms/alerts received from incidents, unauthorized or failed changes
• Create and track incident tickets, change requests, work orders, service requests and assignments as directed
• Create/Assign incident tickets based on priority, impact and complexity to the appropriate fix agents

Associate System Protection Engineer

Associate System Protection Engineer

Apprentice Communication Tech

Apprentice Communication Tech

IT Network Operations Analyst, Associate