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)
- Competency in planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals (Desired)
- Competency in using compelling arguments to gain support and commitment of others (Desired)
- Knowledge of the technical impact of distributed generation to grid operations (Desired)
- Competency in coordinating your work with other active projects (Desired)
- Competency to work cohesively in fast-paced team environments (Desired)
- Competency in effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization (Desired)
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Hard skills
grid modeling softwareCYMDISTPSLFAspendata processing toolsExcelAccessSQLProtection System EngineeringTransmission or Distribution System Planning
Soft skills
planning and prioritizing workusing compelling argumentscoordinating work with other projectsworking cohesively in teamsbuilding relationship networks
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in engineeringElectrical Engineering DegreeMasters in engineering