About this role
Requisition ID # 169753
Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Business Unit: Electric Engineering
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Oakland
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.
Position Summary
This job is represented by Engineers and Scientists of California (ESC) subject to collective bargaining.
The Senior GIS Analyst performs advanced GIS analysis and related tasks under direction of higher classification employees.
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, $132,120
CA Maximum, $153,252
Job Responsibilities
- Interact with clients to assess business needs, coordinate with outside agencies, market GIS services, and perform training as appropriate.
- Perform all tasks with high level of client satisfaction.
- Develop data layers: Design and manage data acquisition processes (vector or raster), acquire and convert data from outside sources, perform topological conversion, create and maintain metadata.
- Produce intermediate to advanced cartographic output involving sophisticated analyses.
- Perform intermediate to advanced database queries, analyses and reports.
- Perform intermediate to advanced spatial analysis utilizing existing modeling tools.
- Assist with applications development at an advanced level, for example, developing business requirement documents including preliminary layout of forms (input-output), sample reports, required algorithms pertinent to the application, and designing web-based help pages.
- Perform intermediate to advanced data administration tasks on spatial data files and spatial RDBMS.
- Obtain and customize new GIS tools, including scripts and utilities benefiting the GIS group.
- Coach other GIS employees on areas of expertise.
- Ability to perform all tasks of all lower classification GIS positions as needed.
- Ability to manage projects with high client satisfaction and excellent communication.
- Collaboratively direct the work of others.
Qualifications:
Minimum:
- BA/BS in Geomatics, Geography, GIS, or related field, or the equivalent in education and/or experience. Successful completion of two college level courses (semester or quarter) or 16 days of advanced coursework that directly applies to the skills described in the Senior GIS Analyst job description. Coursework may be taken via University Extension, through a vendor (e.g. ESRI, Oracle), or online, or equivalent. Successful presentation of a GIS topic to an internal or external audience (peer or audience review of success is documented).
- 30 months of experience in GIS at GIS Analyst level or equivalent
Desired:
- Skilled in working with LiDAR point‑cloud datasets and the vector features derived from them, including classification, extraction, and integration into GIS workflows
- Experienced with AWS AppStream, AWS S3, and RDS Postgres
- SQL
- HTML
- Oracle Spatial
Other facts
About Pacific Gas And Electric Company
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, incorporated in California in 1905, is one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, the company is a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation.
There are approximately 20,000 employees who carry out Pacific Gas and Electric Company's primary business—the transmission and delivery of energy. The company provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 15 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern and central California.
Fast Facts
Service area stretches from Eureka in the north to Bakersfield in the south, and from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Sierra Nevada in the east
141,215 circuit miles of electric distribution lines and 18,616 circuit miles of interconnected transmission lines
42,141 miles of natural gas distribution pipelines and 6,438 miles of transportation pipelines
5.1 million electric customer accounts
4.3 million natural gas customer accounts
What you'll do
- The Senior GIS Analyst performs advanced GIS analysis and related tasks, interacting with clients to assess business needs and coordinating with outside agencies. Responsibilities include developing data layers, producing cartographic output, and assisting with applications development.
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