Senior System Protection Engineer; v

Position: Senior System Protection Engineer (500kv)
Requisition  # 172269

Job Category:
Engineering / Science

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit:
Strategy & Growth

Work Type:
Hybrid

Job Location:

San Ramon;
Alameda;
Alta;
American Canyon;
Angels Camp;
Antioch;
Auberry;
Auburn;
Avenal;
Avila Beach;
Bakersfield;
Balch Camp;
Bay Point;
Bear Valley;
Belden;
Bellota;
Belmont;
Benicia;
Berkeley;
Brentwood;
Brisbane;
Buellton;
Burney;
Buttonwillow;
Calistoga;
Campbell;
Canyon Dam;
Canyondam;
Capitola;
Caruthers;
Chico;
Clearlake;
Clovis;
Coalinga;
Colusa;
Concord;
Concord;
Corcoran;
Cottonwood;
Cupertino;
Daly City;
Danville;
Davis;
Dinuba;
Downieville;
Dublin;
Emeryville;
Eureka;
Fairfield;
Folsom;
Fort Bragg;
Fortuna;
Fremont;
French Camp;
Fresno;
Fresno;
Fulton;
Garberville;
Geyserville;
Gilroy;
Goodyear;
Grass Valley;
Guerneville;
Half Moon Bay;
Hayward;
Hinkley;
Hollister;
Holt;
Huron;
Jackson;
Kerman;
King City;
Lakeport;
Lemoore;
Lincoln;
Linden;
Livermore;
Lodi;
Loomis;
Los Banos;
Lower Lake;
Madera;
Magalia;
Manteca;
Manton;
Mariposa;
Martell;
Marysville;
Maxwell;
Menlo Park;
Merced;
Meridian;
Millbrae;
Milpitas;
Modesto;
Monterey;
Montgomery Creek;
Morgan Hill;
Morro Bay;
Moss Landing;
Mountain View;
Napa;
Needles;
Newark;
Newman;
Novato;
Oakdale;
Oakhurst;
Oakland;
Oakley;
Olema;
Orinda;
Orland;
Oroville;
Palo Alto;
Palo Cedro;
Paradise;
Parkwood;
Paso Robles;
Petaluma;
Pioneer;
Pismo Beach;
Pittsburg;
Placerville;
Pleasant Hill;
Point Arena;
Potter Valley;
Quincy;
Rancho Cordova;
Red Bluff;
Redding;
Richmond;
Ridgecrest;
Rio Vista;
Rocklin;
Roseville;
Round Mountain;
Sacramento;
Salida;
Salinas;
San Bruno;
San Carlos;
San Francisco;
San Francisco;
San Jose;
San Luis Obispo;
San Mateo;
San Rafael;
Sanger;
Santa Cruz;
Santa Maria;
Santa Nella;
Santa Rosa;
Selma;
Shaver Lake;
Sonoma;
Sonora;
South San Francisco;
Springville;
Stockton;
Storrie;
Taft;
Tracy;
Turlock;
Twain;
Ukiah;
Vacaville;
Vallejo;
Walnut Creek;
Wasco;
Watsonville;
West Sacramento;
Wheatland;
Whitmore;
Willits;
Willow Creek;
Willows;
Windsor;
Winters;
Woodland;
Yuba City

Department Overview

The System Protection department is responsible for oversight of protection and control systems installed over a large geographic area of California, and owned by PG&E. The responsibilities include managing all aspects of 35,000 relays of various vintages and ages. PG&E is geographically located in a strategic area of California and WECC(Western Electric Coordinating Council). PG&E has an extensive 500kV network that provides stability to the region.

For this reason and many more it is important to maintain a highly skilled staff to provide oversight of the protection systems in PG&E.

Position Summary

Oversees aspects of System and Substation Protection and Control and Remedial Action Schemes, specified, installed and owned by PG&E. Specifies, designs, and applies protective relay packages for reliable and secure operation of transmission and distribution systems, this includes generation and Load interconnections Provides system support for departments that interface with protection schemes. Develops testing procedures. Performs fault and disturbance analysis, system modeling, documentation maintenance, and audits of protection equipment.

Coordinates information exchange with other utilities and regulatory bodies. This role will collaborate with multiple teams, such as EGI, Distribution Planning, Asset Strategy, Compliance, Operations, Planning, and Relay Test. It will also serve as a point of contact for System Protection for interconnection customers and CAISO.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned location two days a week.

PG&E is providing 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 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.

Bay Area Minimum: $128,000

Bay Area Mid:$173,000

Bay Maximum: $218,000

California Minium:$122,000

California Mid: $164,000

California Maximum: $207,000

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E's discretionary incentive compensation programs.

Job Responsibilities

* Works with limited guidance to complete assignments of broad scope and complexity with few precedents or standards, and assignments that require integration of information from a variety of sources.

* Applies extensive knowledge of concepts, principles and practices in system protection engineering to resolve complex problems.

* May provide technical leadership in one or more specialized areas; provides technical mentorship to less senior engineers.

* Plans,…