Senior GIS Technical Specialist

Requisition ID # 165051

Department Overview

Gas Operations is focused on ensuring the safe and reliable flow of natural gas to our customers. As a whole, Gas Operations is responsible for all aspects of PG&E’s gas distribution and transmission operations, including planning, engineering, maintenance and construction, restoration and emergency response.

Gas Transmission Operations is responsible for maintaining over 6,000 miles of gas transmission pipelines throughout California. This Department is responsible for the overall administration and implementation of the Transmission Integrity Management Program and the evaluation of overall risk to the gas transmission system. This includes overseeing the completion of integrity management assessments, identifying High Consequence Areas (HCA), maintaining PG&E's assessment plan as required by 49 CFR Subpart O, and managing PG&E's overall gas risk management program.

Position Summary

This position reports to the Risk Management Supervising Engineer under the Data, Risk, and Threat team, and is critical to PG&E’s Gas Transmission Integrity Management Program to help ensure PG&E maintains safe and reliable pipelines which comply with federal regulations . The role will work on a cross-functional team of Engineers, Data Specialists, Data Scientists, and Program Managers to provide GIS and database support for the implementation of the Risk Management duties of PG&E’s approximately 6000-mile transmission pipeline system. The Senior Specialist will work with many key internal stakeholders such as Asset Knowledge Management, Gas Transmission Engineering & Design, Enterprise Risk Management, and Regulatory Compliance .

Position Duties (may include but are not limited to)-

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

Hybrid working schedule (requires monthly/weekly meetings in San Ramon).

Occasional travel to the field on average less than 5 times a year.

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.​

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

Job Responsibilities

Qualifications-

Minimum Qualifications:

Desired Qualifications:

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and (Technical) Competencies

Knowledge of 49 CFR Part 192

Advanced Proficiency in ArcGIS 10.x or later

Power user skillset in Oracle or SQL server databases, ability to write complex SQL programs

Proficiency in a programming language – Python or Visual Basic

Competency with commonly used data science programming languages, packages, and tools such as R, NumPy, or Geopandas.