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[Apply on PG&E’s careers site →](https://jobs.pge.com/job/oakland/senior-electric-distribution-engineer-asset-strategy-engineering-oakland/29673/99190533552) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [PG&E](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/pge/) / Senior, Electric Distribution Engineer, Asset Strategy Engineering - Oakland ## Job description ### Requisition ID # 173277 Job Category Engineering / Science Job Level: Individual Contributor Business Unit: Energy Delivery Work Type: Hybrid Job Location: Oakland Department Overview The Electric Transmission and Distribution (T&D) Engineering organization ensures that PG&E's electric system is planned, designed, and managed to provide safe, reliable, resilient, and cost-effective service to customers throughout Northern and Central California. The organization develops engineering solutions and long-term asset strategies that support the reliability, safety, and resilience of PG&E's transmission, distribution, and substation systems. PG&E's Electric Asset Management team is responsible for developing and executing strategies that maximize the value, performance, safety, reliability, and lifecycle management of PG&E's electric system assets. Asset Management ensures PG&E's transmission, distribution, substation, and supporting electric assets are managed throughout their entire lifecycle in a manner that balances safety, reliability, resiliency, regulatory compliance, risk reduction, and cost effectiveness. They partner with internal departments and cross-functional teams to establish the safest, most reliable, and cost-effective electric distribution infrastructure system and may communicate with regulators, customers and other external stakeholders to advance PG&E’s objectives. ### Position Summary The Senior Electric Distribution Engineer job requires mastery of the Electric Distribution Engineer skills and duties. This position ensures the safe, reliable and efficient operation of the electric power system by providing technical, planning and project implementation support for substation, distribution, distribution network systems, and/or distributed generation. The responsibility level of this position increases with experience and demonstrated ability. 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. 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. The annual salary range is: CA Minimum, $161,520 CA Maximum, $207,504 ### Job Responsibilities The Senior Electric Distribution Engineer is able to independently perform the job duties of an Electric Distribution engineer, and in addition: 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 power systems engineering to resolve complex problems. Evaluates and identifies strategies, plans and opportunities to improve Company performance. Expands breadth of knowledge to other areas of specialty or further develops expertise and specialization in one area. May provide oversight, direction, coordination and collaboration, guidance and support to operations personnel and/or engineering personnel on work execution and/or compliance with Company and industry standards (e.g. certifications). Approves Distribution Planning Area (DPA) load forecast. Determines and approves final load growth regression mode for load growth studies. Participates in prioritization and funding for distribution programs. Prepares system wide analysis and recommendations for targeted distribution work. As assigned, assist in communicating with regulators, customers and other external stakeholders to advance PG&E’s objectives. As assigned, provide data to support General Rate Case efforts, regulatory proceedings and data requests. As assigned, lead the capacity planning and load forecasting process, and lead effort to identify Distributed Energy Resources (DER) services. As assigned, support and drive Outage Review process, lead regional outage review team (ORT) meetings including development of necessary reliability reports. As assigned, lead distribution automation initiatives. As assigned, support benchmarking with other utilities. As assigned, provide technical training, coaching and mentoring to lower level engineers. As assigned, work on revising work processes, asset strategy, risk analysis, standards updates, program management, data analytics, committees and special assignments. As assigned, develop metrics and performance targets that track reliability and system performance as well as the methods and procedures for providing these metrics. May be assigned to prepare regulatory reliability reports, support General Rate Case efforts and other regulatory proceedings as an asset program assistant. Responds to associated data requests as required. ### Qualifications Minimum: Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET-accredited college or university. Other engineering disciplines may be considered by the interview panel. Minimum of eight (8) years of experience in electrical power engineering and design. ### Desired Active California PE license. Experience in utility pole asset management. Skilled in data analytics. Experience in reliability analysis and improvement. ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Not stated - First seen by OpenNash: Aug 21, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 18, 2026 - Listed for: 58 days - Location: Oakland, CA - Work arrangement: Hybrid[Apply on PG&E’s careers site →](https://jobs.pge.com/job/oakland/senior-electric-distribution-engineer-asset-strategy-engineering-oakland/29673/99190533552) ## More jobs at PG&E ### [Engineering Rotational Development Program](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/pge/jobs/b1e3c3217224ef9f5b54/) Oakland, CA ### [Expert IGP Solutions Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/pge/jobs/435ba0bbe6d77c61e6b6/) Oakland, CA ### [Expert, Grid Innovation Engineer - Reliability, Strategy, and Partnerships](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/pge/jobs/76f122b7659e8d891ccf/) Oakland, CA ### [Project Engineer, Electric Transmission Line](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/pge/jobs/f874248bdc7ff628921f/) Oakland, CA ### [STP CLM Business Process Analyst, Principal](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/pge/jobs/af4c4778e72e6a28cd40/) Oakland, CA ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Sr Engineer - BGE Electric Distribution Capacity/Grid Planning](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/exelon/jobs/3c364c7e6666be23a68e/) Exelon · BALTIMORE, Maryland ### [Vehicle Systems Engineer – Electric Vehicle Technology](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/bae-systems/jobs/3b3f00456651f04fb20c/) BAE Systems · Endicott, New York, United States ### [Military Fellowship (SkillBridge) - Electric Distribution Customer Projects Designer (Virginia)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/dominion-energy/jobs/969e5a19ffc87b582446/) Dominion Energy · Alexandria, VA, US ### [Engineering Rep (Electric and Gas Distribution Mapping Specialist)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/ameren/jobs/fcb1cf24b424410dfd43/) Ameren · Collinsville, IL OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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