Senior GIS Technical Specialist

Requisition ID # 167398 

Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Gas Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: San Ramon

Department Overview

Geospatial Solutions facilitates management of risk for mission critical processes using the ArcGIS Online (AGOL) platform to build content - data, maps, applications - for our partners in the office and in the field.

Position Summary

Provide GIS Analysis, content development, and management support for the Gas Operations and Asset Knowledge Management teams. 
 
Successful candidate should expect to travel to San Ramon, CA on as needed basis for meetings/trainings etc.
 
Travel may be required to headquarters or Bay Area to attend workshops, team meetings or other organizational all-hands meetings.
 

Travel to headquarters or Bay Area may be required 0 – 3 times per month.

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). 

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.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum:$102,000
Bay Area Maximum: $162,000

Job Responsibilities
•    Provide advanced user support and data integration
•    Develop and perform advanced data gathering, data integration, and quality control procedures for geospatial data, interface with data source systems to resolve complex issues; estimate impact of data issues to compliance and business commitments
•    Identify user quality control, support and data integration process improvement opportunities, gather input and agreement on new requirements and lead implementation, communication and training around process revisions/changes.
•    Lead special projects related to GIS.
•    Create and update metadata and catalog GIS layers, including documenting work flow procedures for staff using GIS, both in the office and in the field.
•    Support advanced enterprise GIS data modeling and data capture initiatives, develop and review software functionality requirements.
•    Lead GIS software, hardware and database projects and initiatives
•    Work collaboratively with other work groups and vendors, troubleshoot issues, produce technical communication
•    Lead projects and efforts related to opportunities for improvement in the way work is done, share expertise and lessons learned
•    Demonstrate by personal action a 100% commitment to employee and public safety.
•    Accurately identify Safety Critical Elements.
•    Coach and mentor other GIS Technical Specialists.

Qualifications-

Minimum Qualifications:
•    Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent relevant experience
•    5 years of experience with GIS applications. 
•    3 years of experience in the utility industry.
•    3 years of experience in ArcGIS 9.x or later.

Desired Qualifications:
•    Ability to use python to automate processes, proficiency with arcpy and/or arcgis api for python
•    Proficiency with Safe Software FME
•    PODS data model experience.
•    Integrity Management and Risk Management experience. 
•    Project Management experience.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and (Technical) Competencies

•    Advanced Proficiency in ArcGIS 10.x or ArcGIS Pro
•    Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook/Word/Excel
•    Power user skillset in Microsoft Access, Oracle, or SQL server databases, ability to run complex SQL Queries
•    Proficiency in a programming language –Python, or Javascript