Expert Innovation Strategy Engineer

Requisition # 172614

Job Category:
Engineering / Science

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit:
Strategy & Growth

Work Type:
Onsite

Job Location:

Danville;
San Ramon

Electric Transmission & Distribution ensures the delivery of clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to nearly 16 million people in Northern and Central California. The Electric Transmission & Distribution Team is responsible for ensuring the electric grid's reliability and resiliency through the ongoing maintenance and operations of PG&E's 100,000 miles of distribution lines and over 18,000 miles of Transmission lines. Coworkers in Electric Transmission & Distribution actively engage in the Lean Methodology through the use of visual management in operating reviews to cross-functionally identify and solve problems, and create standard work.

By working together as One Electric. One Team. We are delivering for our hometowns. Electric Transmission & Distribution is comprised of approximately 6,500 coworkers.

Provides engineering, testing and analysis services and expertise across multiple disciplines to various company organizations to identify, diagnose and solve technical problems. Provides consultation to clients to proactively avoid future problems. Conducts inspections, failure analysis, performance assessments, and evaluations on a wide variety of systems and components. Partners with management to create bid proposals for requested client work.

This position will add strategic foresight and portfolio thinking to a small team meant to drive structured innovation and breakthrough thinking at PG&E company. The team is designed to build PG&E's internal capacity for structured innovation — not as a peripheral experiment, but as a repeatable, embedded organizational capability. The team's mandate spans corporate innovation methodology, strategic foresight, portfolio thinking, and measurement.

A key qualification is the ability to think systematically about complex, uncertain problems and communicate findings with clarity and authority.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need.

PG&E provides the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity.

Although we estimate that the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case‑by‑case basis related to these factors.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $140,000

Bay Area Maximum: $238,000

• Mentor and direct a team or teams of engineers and engineering technicians with diverse backgrounds.
• Monitor technology, regulatory, and societal trends relevant to the energy sector; synthesize findings into actionable intelligence for leadership.
• Support strategic foresight exercises including scenario planning, futures workshops, and future‑back thinking sessions.
• Independently develops and executes new practical solutions to highly complex problems.
• Develops relationships within our partner functional areas to assess client business interests and to identify potential ATS opportunities.
• Continually identifies and executes business, lab, testing, or process improvements.
• Leads and manages projects and programs independently which includes developing and executing on innovative, novel, and complex solutions with high financial impact to PG&E and/or the client by taking ownership of scope, schedule, budget and communications.
• Oversees assembly of technical systems and prototypes according to engineering standards and knowledge of related principles.
• Is recognized as a subject matter expert in one discipline or type of ATS service and offers breadth of knowledge and performs analysis and executes projects across several…