Power Generation Project Engineer (Mechanical)

Power Generation operates and maintains PG&E's hydroelectric, fossil, solar generation, and battery storage facilities, providing approximately 5,300 megawatts of generating capacity for our customers. Our nearly 900 coworkers are dedicated to delivering safe, reliable, and cost-effective generation to California in an environmentally responsible manner.

The Power Generation Asset Management Department works to attain the optimum balance of asset risk, performance, and cost through a clear understanding of asset conditions for risk-informed, data-driven decision-making.

Position Summary

This is a Journey level project engineer job that requires mastery of the Associate Project Engineer skills and duties and provides program management, asset management, powerhouse risk analysis, and technical support to O&M staff for a wide range of moderately complex issues and advising on multiple medium to large capital and expense improvements to power generation and infrastructure facilities.

Responsibilities may include managing multiple moderately complex issues and programs, resolving problems of moderate scope, and providing technical support to O&M staff. The position requires a comprehensive knowledge of job functions and proficiency in applying sound engineering and program management principles.

Job Responsibilities

• Program lead for various mechanical asset programs related to powerhouse equipment.
• Responsible for investment strategies and technical scope requirement development for the purposes of long-term planning.
• Supports more senior engineers, or leads on less complex subjects, in the powerhouse asset family on development and implementation of maintenance strategies, programmatic solutions, process improvements, regulatory relations, risk analysis for portfolio of powerhouses.
• Supports scope clarifications for project execution efforts for moderately complex generation projects.
• Provides broad and in-depth technical support to O&M as needed, including incident investigation and development of corrective actions.
• Proactively controls scope, schedule, cost, and quality of Asset Management Systems and their programs.
• Provides guidance, coaching, technical direction, oversight, and quality control for assigned programs and technical work done in discipline, knowledge transfer, and assistance to many technical and / or project execution employees and teams.
• Performs and / or reviews engineering analyses and studies, reviews detail scopes, viable alternatives, conceptual designs, and recommended fixes to ensure safe / reliable operation of generation assets.
• Interprets and applies applicable codes and regulations.
• Approves and stamps technical specifications and standard design drawings.
• Works with supervisors and others to represent PG&E to internal and external organizations as required.
• Identifies gaps between current business practices and stated objectives and provides recommendations for process improvements to address gaps.

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