Safety & Infrastructure Protection Lead

Requisition # 170013

Job Category:
Environmental Management / Safety

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit:
Operations - Other

Work Type:
Onsite

Job Location:

Santa Maria;
American Canyon;
Cupertino;
Dinuba;
Garberville;
King City;
Mariposa;
Monterey;
Oakhurst

PG&E Safety & Infrastructure Protection (SIP) Teams provide direct defense of utility infrastructure, conduct safety and prevention, mitigation, and maintenance activities on company properties or rights of way, year-round. In addition, SIP Teams provide safety standby services to PG&E employees performing high-risk work activities. A SIP team is staffed by a SIP Crew Lead and a SIP Technician who operate a PG&E vehicle that meets the minimum capabilities of a Type 6 wildland fire engine.

Both the SIP Crew Lead and SIP Technician are represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). PG&E has 48 teams located throughout our service territory in high fire-threat areas.

SIPCrew Leads perform a variety of tasks while directing the work of SIP Technicians. This includes providing emergency first aid at PG&E work sites, conducting PG&E safety inspections, asset protection standby (during "high-risk" work activities) at PG&E work sites, mixing and applying retardant to protect PG&E infrastructure, medical response standby services, and other duties as assigned. In addition, the SIP Crew Lead operates and provides training and instruction in the use of a variety of hand tools and motorized equipment, maintains and performs repairs of equipment, and performs occasional heavy physical work.

The SIP Crew Lead provides field coordination of SIP Technicians, may lead classroom and field training, assists others in performing material management tasks; keeps records; writes and submits reports as required; and other related work as assigned.

Available positions are possible at the following locations:
Santa Maria, Cupertino, Garberville, Monterey, Oakhurst, Mariposa, Dinuba, King City and American Canyon/Napa. These locations may be subject to change due to business needs, but available locations will be in the PG&E service territory.

The position is a General Construction position and individuals must be able to travel and transfer to a new headquarters upon request at any time; throughout the entire PG&E service territory with no guarantees as to how long you will be away from home.

This classification is represented by IBEW Local 1245, which has over 100 years of experience representing employees at PG&E.

PG&E is providing the hourly rate that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This position is subject to collectively bargained hourly wage rates and increases. The starting wage rate for this position is $54.32 per hour. This wage rate is specific to the locality of the job. The wage rate is based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, collective bargaining agreements, and internal equity.

Performs all duties of the SIP Technician and leads small groups of Safety and Infrastructure Protection Technicians in the performance of the duties listed below:

• Provide emergency first aid and medical standby at PG&E work sites
• Conduct safety inspections including defensible space inspections and fuel hazard assessment at PG&E facilities
• Support PG&E asset protection efforts including mixing and applying retardant
• Accompany vegetation management crews during wildfire recovery to suppress incidental ignitions per the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) approval
• Asset protection at PG&E-owned facilities and may accompany crews, as needed and during wildfires, as permitted by the AHJ
• Mop up of fire-damaged PG&E assets as authorized by the AHJ
• May perform PG&E emergency standby duties, as needed by a "competent person" (pursuant to RC 23487) in coordination with the AHJ or Incident…