Position Summary:
PG&E’s Applied Technology Services (ATS) has been providing technology-based, innovative, high-value services to the company for over 40 years. ATS is a multidisciplinary team of over 120 engineers, scientists, and technicians. The ATS vision is to be a forward-thinking, technological leader providing high-value solutions and services needed across the Company. ATS high value services also help proactively avoid future problems by specifying equipment, materials and methods that are best practices in the industry.
ATS’s Materials Engineering, Corrosion, & Failure Analysis group provides a range of services, which include coatings selection, coatings specification, cathodic protection testing, corrosion control designs, asset & risk management program development, procedure development, and training development.
Facility description: ATS has Metallurgy and Chemistry laboratories that are equipped with a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), XRF analyzers, optical microscopes, image analysis system, sample prep equipment, micro-hardness testers, etc.
Key Responsibilities:
- Client Management: Consulting experience is a plus, excellent communication skills (oral and written) are essential. Successful candidates should work well with others and have a client focus. Job requires developing and promoting strong client relationships, having a can do attitude and being sensitive to client issues.
- Safety: Demonstrate safe working practices at all times. Advocate focus on customer, general public and employee safety in all work practices.
- Written documentation of results, conformance with established practices for generating and archiving reports with an attention to detail. Adhere to sample logging and tracking procedures and comply with project tracking/management requirements.
- Job Management: Plan and direct laboratory projects and administer outside contract work effectively.
- Experience with job development – including scope definition, schedule and cost estimates are crucial.
Required Education & Experience:
- Outstanding communication, presentation and interpersonal skills working within all levels of the organization
- 5 years of related experience in Coatings, Corrosion Control, and Asset Management
- Experience with technology evaluation and deployments.
- Fully proficient with protective coatings and linings specification, inspection, and evaluation including acceptance testing, qualification testing, and troubleshooting efforts on assigned programs.
- Experience performing cathodic protection system planning, design, operation, and analysis along with condition assessment of facilities affected by corrosion is a plus
- Experience with leading project teams including defining scope, creating a plan, and scheduling the work
- Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment managing multiple, complex tasks to achieve significant goals.
- Possess a Bachelor of Science degree in Material Science, Corrosion, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, or other related field.
- Possess coatings related certifications (e.g. NACE Coating Inspector Level 1, SSPC Protective Coatings Specialist, NACE Cert. Coating Inspector Level III) or Corrosion Related Certifications (e.g. NACE Senior Corrosion Technologist, NACE Cathodic Protection Technologist (CP-3), and NACE Cathodic Protection Specialist (CP-4))
- Comfortable with computers: familiar with MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint
- Able to present complex data and technical information in a simple and easy to understand manner
- Possess a Graduate Level degree in Engineering, Professional Engineering License, or equivalent
- Experience working in the gas, electric or electric power generation industries