Hybrid Grid Reliability & Resiliency Engineer, Expert

at Pacific Gas and Electric Company

• Job title: Grid Reliability & Resiliency Engineer, Expert
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $133,000 - $238,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Oakland, United States

About the role

• Engineer focused on resilience and reliability of PG&E’s electric grid by leveraging high-resolution data. Responsibilities include analyzing distributed energy resources integration and grid modernization.

Responsibilities

• 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 enable more advanced analysis when modeling 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.
• Explore new data streams for enhancing analysis and simulations.
• Assist in assessments of potential distributed energy resources risks at higher penetration levels.
• Represent PG&E as its technical expert integrating distributed resources and technologies onto the electric grid in industry working groups.
• Responsible for identifying, developing and implementing new standards and guidelines, in collaboration with Distribution Standards Department, to facilitate distributed energy resources integration while minimizing potential grid impacts.
• Contribute to the development of data science strategies aligned with department and system performance goals.
• Lead research and development of state-of-the-art methodologies to detect potential system failures, develop a long-term strategy for all PG&E grids to improve the electric transmission and distribution grid.
• Prepares and presents regular updates to senior management, addressing issues and gaining buy in on solutions.
• Attend IEEE and related technical conferences to maintain technical knowledge, explore and bring best industry practices.
• Assesses business implications associated with modeling assumptions, inputs, methodologies technical implementation, analytic procedures and processes, and advanced data analysis.
• Works with sponsor departments and company technical experts to understand the application and potential of data science solutions that create value.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent experience
• Experience with grid modeling software (e.g. CYMDIST, PSLF, Aspen, etc.)
• 7 years of electric utility related experience
• Electrical Engineering Degree with Power Systems emphasis (desired)
• PhD or master’s in engineering, preferably Electrical Engineering discipline with Power Systems emphasis (desired)
• Proficient with data processing tools such as Excel, Access, SQL, etc. (desired)
• Experience in Program Management (desired)
• Expert in electric distribution program development and execution preferably in areas of reliability, resiliency and grid modernization (desired)
• Experience in Transmission or Distribution System Planning, power flow, distribution engineering or operations, substation engineering, transmission or distribution protection, distribution operations (desired)
• Excellent skills in communication, interpersonal/collaboration influence and negotiation and process management (desired)
• Knowledge of the technical impact of distributed generation to grid operations (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)
• Competency in planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goal (desired)
• Competency in using compelling arguments to gain support and commitment of others (desired)
• Competency in coordinating your work with other active projects (desired).