Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Supervisor, Grid Reliability & Resiliency Engineering

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Oakland • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $251,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

SQL

About the role

  • Design and develop innovative grid solutions to achieve a climate resilient grid
  • Provides clear directions to teams and other departments in the areas of grid modernization, including DER integration, forecasting, capacity planning, grid sectionalizing, and Integrated Grid and investment planning to improve grid resiliency.
  • Solve unique and complex problems, anticipating issues and developing innovative solutions, example, create tools that help identify abnormal operating conditions and provide feedback to drive the system to its optimal and designed planned configuration
  • Support reliability command center and various analysis, assignments and data requests.
  • Supervises staff to accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, rewards and recognition.
  • Establish relationships with key external stakeholders (e.g., industry and regulatory).
  • Articulates goals and mission to key stakeholder teams to assure development of deliverables meets stakeholder needs.
  • Explore, innovate, and demonstrate technologies that improve grid reliability and resiliency
  • Ensures the distribution system performance will meet reliability targets and that outages are analyzed for cause, trends, & duration and utilized for innovative solutions
  • Participates in assignments supporting distribution or distribution network systems. This includes gathering reliability information to lead/facilitate the development of distribution reliability strategy and metrics.
  • Partners with Manager/Director to help determine the most appropriate and effective program performance metrics.
  • Prepares and presents regular updates to senior management, addressing issues and gaining buy in on solutions.
  • Partners with Work Planning/Resource Management teams plan and forecast short- and long-term work to be completed as part of the program.
  • Ensures effective work scheduling and resources will be available to meet the work plan.
  • Contribute to the development of data science strategies aligned with system performance, reliability, and resiliency team goals.
  • Create actionable insights that inform investment planning and real-time decision-making.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent related experience.
  • Five years of relevant experience
  • Master’s degree in engineering-Electrical or equivalent related experience
  • Master’s degree in business administration or actuarial science or equivalent related experience
  • Experience in electric distribution program development and execution preferably in areas of reliability, resiliency and grid modernization.
  • Experience working on grid modernization tools or products.
  • Experience with data processing tools such as Excel, Access, SQL, etc.
  • Experience in Transmission or Distribution System Planning.
  • Knowledge of distribution engineering or operations, substation engineering, transmission or distribution protection, distribution operations.
  • Experience working with SAP Financials and Work Management.
  • Program and project management experience.
  • Ability to lead and influence strategic planning and decision-making, working with senior management at PG&E.
  • Ability to develop and manage department budgets, expenses, and variances.
  • Ability to communicate and support company and organization policies, procedures, goals, objectives, vision and values.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
grid modernizationDER integrationforecastingcapacity planningdata processingelectric distribution program developmentreliability engineeringresiliency engineeringtransmission system planningdistribution system planning
Soft skills
leadershipstrategic planningcommunicationteam managementproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementperformance managementtraining and developmentrelationship buildingdecision-making
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in engineeringMaster’s degree in engineeringMaster’s degree in business administrationMaster’s degree in actuarial science