Associate System Protection Engineer

Requisition ID # 174590

Job Category: Engineering / Science

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Energy Delivery

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: West Sacramento

Department Overview

The hardworking coworkers of Electric Engineering ensure all manners of electric engineering—including electric standards and process safety, electric design engineering, instrumentation testing and controls, undergrounding, electric regulatory compliance and electric investment planning—are in place to safely enable a strategic and stable workplan for our Electric Operations partners. Our organization is accountable for program planning, financial budgeting, and project execution and delivery of all electric engineering projects. Electric Engineering is comprised of approximately 2,000 coworkers.

System Protection Engineering provides:

Project and Maintenance &Operations support, specify design, requirements, and testing procedures.

Review and analysis of power system disturbance and operations.

Technical consultation and training for System Operation and Planning issues.

Equipment evaluation, approval, and standard development.

Position Summary

This position is represented by Engineers and Scientists of California (ESC) subject to collective bargaining.

In this role as an entry level Associate Protection Engineer, you will provide support to projects, protection studies and perform protection job duties for transmission voltages 230 kV and below under direction of a supervisor or a more experienced engineer.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The a ssigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

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, collective bargaining agreements, and internal equity.

Annual salary range:

Minimum, $99,936

Maximum, $157,596

Job Responsibilities

Provide protection engineering support for projects and studies. The engineer may perform the following job duties for transmission voltages 230 kV and below:

Issue protection requirements and prepare description of operations for non-standard and localized RAS schemes

Conduct short circuit studies, calculate short circuit line impedance

Determine and issue relay and automatics settings

Support relay system installations, such as review test program, end-to-end test, load check, direction check, relay release, etc.

Conduct area coordination studies

Participate in project walkdown and project meetings

Provide construction drawing reviews

Update and maintain records, such as Aspen relay data base, transformer data sheet, short circuit base case, hard copy files, and automatics data base, job files, port assignment sheets, breaker files, etc.

Review and approve new tools and training prior to rollout

Design and set localized RAS schemes based on Operation Engineering requirements

Identify existing protection deficiencies

The engineer at this level is also assigned to provide normal and emergency maintenance and operation support. The engineer may perform, but not limited to, the following tasks:

Provide fault location

Investigate questionable relay operations, perform remote event retrieval, and implement corrective actions

Process clearance request and provide specific protection setup

Assist technicians, operators for routine maintenance and operation work

Specific Duties for Transmission Group:

Provide project and routine M&O support to Hydro generation

Manage digital fault recorders and perform event retrieval

Conduct FERC generation interconnection studies and third-party load interconnections

To implement various aspects of the above job requirements, the candidate will work with internal engineering, operations, substation construction and maintenance organizations. May attend meetings representing the group, to meet job duties. External contacts are occasional and limited to simple issues.

Qualifications

Minimum:

Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline; or, graduating with a BSEE or related discipline by December 2026 from an accredited curriculum in the US or the equivalent from outside the US

Desired:

EIT Certificate

2 years of experience in engineering

Able to apply basic engineering principles and theory

Basic understanding of symmetrical component theory and ability to perform fault calculations

Basic knowledge of logic gate theory and control circuitry

Able to read and understand Operating, Single line, SLM&R, and Schematic diagrams

Ability to quickly learn protection concepts and their application