Senior Grid Reliability, Resiliency Engineer
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Oakland • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $116,000 - $194,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
SQL
About the role
- Support the reliability command center with various analysis, assignments and data requests.
- Assist customers in assessing the viability of distributed technology and/or resource interconnection projects
- Collaborate with other utilities, manufacturers, engineering IT, and standards departments on advancing new distributed energy resources applications, such as smart inverters, and reducing interconnection costs
- Understand the various data streams that are needed to model grid impacts
- Explore, innovate, and demonstrate technologies that facilitate easier grid integration
- Identify conditions when DER may provide more benefits to the customers and the grid
- Assist in assessments of potential distributed energy resources risks at higher penetration levels
- Assist in material prep and/or presenting for technical experts/leadership in internal/external working groups and meetings.
- Contribute to the development of data science strategies aligned with department and system performance goals
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent experience
- Experience with grid modeling software (e.g. CYMDIST, PSLF, Aspen, etc.)
- 5 years of electric utility related experience
- Electrical Engineering Degree with Power Systems emphasis (Desired)
- Masters in engineering, preferably Electrical Engineering discipline with Power Systems emphasis (Desired)
- Experience with data processing tools such as Excel, Access, SQL, etc. (Desired)
- Experience in Program Management (Desired)
- Experience in electric distribution program development and execution preferably in areas of reliability, resiliency and grid modernization (Desired)
- Experience in working on grid modernization tools or products (Desired)
- Protection System Engineering experience (Desired)
- Experience in Transmission or Distribution System Planning (Desired)
- Experience in Transmission or Distribution Operations (Desired)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
grid modeling softwareCYMDISTPSLFAspendata processing toolsExcelAccessSQLProtection System EngineeringTransmission or Distribution System Planning
Soft skills
collaborationanalysispresentationcommunicationinnovationrisk assessmenttechnical expertiseproject managementcustomer assessmentdata strategy development
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in engineeringElectrical Engineering DegreeMasters in engineering