
Electric Distribution Engineer – Associate
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Fresno • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $95,172 - $142,956 per year
About the role
- Submits long term and short-term reconstruction, capacity and reliability plan recommendations; manages projects within their local area of $100,000 or less; and reviews and recommends job estimates within DPA for capacity and reliability.
- Monitors area substation and circuit capabilities and track corresponding loads.
- Prepares proposals, including justification, for appropriate corrective actions to address deficiencies found.
- Performs planning studies to correctly model the electric distribution system and works with Mapping to ensure discrepancies are corrected in associated records system.
- Analyzes historical loads and project future growth.
- Prepares long term and short-term plans to identify and correct area deficiencies.
- Prepares draft Preliminary Planning Reviews (PPR’s).
- Identifies alternatives to address deficiencies for Project Analysis (PA’s).
- Reviews and analyzes area distribution systems and takes appropriate actions to maintain power factor and primary voltage within established standards.
- Determines circuit and associated equipment capabilities within the assigned DPA.
- Prepares and initiate switching plans to alleviate normal and minimize emergency deficiencies.
- Prepares necessary documentation about distribution needs for estimating to complete job packages.
- Prepares settings for load tap changers and other line equipment.
- Reviews requests for new large customer load additions or increases in voltage and recommend actions to correct any deficiencies.
- Provides direction and reviews primary designs proposed by estimating to ensure adequate capacity and reliability.
- Prepares settings for distribution protective devices.
- Performs circuit protection reviews and makes recommendations for corrections.
- Determines protection requirements for rule 20, WRO projects and other major distribution projects which could impact the existing protective scheme.
- Prepares settings for Distribution Automation (DA) devices affecting distribution protection, voltage or emergency switching.
- Initiates service dependability solutions and actively participates in local reliability / root cause meetings.
- Works closely with construction to prioritize outage prevention work within DPA, addresses customer complaints (Help Tickets) for recurring outages as assigned.
- Prepares initial responses for CPUC complaints for recurring outages.
- Supports local DO’s, DEC, construction, or storm room in emergency restoration efforts as required.
- Provide technical, address’ customer voltage complaints caused by primary voltage problems.
- When requested, address’ customer EMF requests involving distribution facilities as assigned, assist E&M and OM&C personnel to address customer voltage complaints caused by secondary voltage problems.
- Supports estimating, construction, and other departments as required.
- Reviews, modifies, and recommends switching clearances for feeders, banks and stations as requested by DO’s.
- Address’ customer EMF requests involving distribution facilities as assigned.
- Reviews switching arrangements, equipment settings, voltage levels, power factor needs, etc. to ensure the distribution system is operated in the most efficient manner.
- Prepare EASOP (economic analysis) for projects in DPA.
- Prepare other engineering analysis as assigned.
- Provide supervisor on-call support as required; maintain equipment records as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from a college/university program accredited by Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET)
- Power system engineering
- Basic Microsoft Office skills
- CYME experience
- Python Scripting experience
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
power system engineeringPython scriptingload analysiscircuit protectioncapacity planningreliability analysiseconomic analysisdistribution system modelingsettings for load tap changerssettings for distribution protective devices
Soft Skills
project managementcommunicationproblem-solvingcustomer servicecollaborationtechnical directionanalytical thinkingattention to detailprioritizationadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE)ABET accreditation