Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Outage Management Intern

Pacific Gas and Electric Company  •  California (Hybrid)  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

Requisition ID # 170171

Job Category: Administrative / Clerical

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Generation

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Avila Beach

Department Overview

Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) safely and reliably produces electricity that is environmentally responsible and cost effective for our customers and shareholders.  DCPP's mission is to be the leading nuclear power plant in the country and to: Inspire and positively influence the industry through our safe, reliable, and excellent operational performance. Embrace new ideas to continuously improve our plant and our work environment. Proactively learn from ourselves and others. Enrich our communities and the environment, increasing the public's trust and confidence in nuclear power.

Outage Management is responsible for safe, reliable, and continuous operations: by scoping, planning, preparing, and executing refueling and forced outages. Objective of refueling outage management is to refuel the reactor, perform surveillance tests, meet licensing commitments, perform necessary corrective and preventive maintenance, and perform plant modifications to improve unit availability and reliability. Objective of forced outage management is to identify and correct the cause of the outage, minimize the duration of the outage, and perform other staged work to the extent it can be accomplished within the parameters of the forced duration.

Outage management is looking for a detail-oriented, analytical, and highly motivated summer intern to help support planning and preparing for future refueling outages. This role blends traditional outage planning with data analytics, visualization, and digital coordination tools, ideal for someone who enjoys organizing complex information, creating clarity through visuals, and improving team workflows.

Interns will support milestone-based outage preparation activities, including:

  • Update maintenance plans and operations in SAP
  • Reconcile SAP discrepancies
  • Research data and update risk codes in backbone schedules and SAP
  • Attend Outage meetings and schedule reviews to support action item resolution
  • Monitoring outage milestones and deliverables, including supporting visual dashboard or reports
  • Develop scheduling website using Microsoft Sharepoint

The successful intern will have the opportunity to lead and/or support activities as described above working with a team of experienced personnel. Additionally, the intern will gain knowledge of the operation of Diablo Canyon Power Plant through the work they will be performing.

PG&E is providing the hourly rate 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 hourly rate 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.

The hourly rate for this position ranges from $23.08 to $36.42

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Earning a bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering or computer science
  • Students must be continuing education towards degree during and/or after the internship 

Desired:

  • 3.0 GPA or greater in both cumulative GPA and major GPA
  • Preferred degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical or Computer Science, or Data Analytics
  • Ability to work in a team environment and support fellow team members
  • Strong problem solving and analytical skills 
  • Strong communication skills, both oral and written
  • Takes initiative and can work independently with minimal direction
  • Experience with Sharepoint, OneNote, Excel, Power BI and other visualization or organizational tools
  • Experience with Mechanical/Electrical components (pumps, motors, circuit breakers, valves etc.)
  • Previous internship and or work experience with power generation, transmission, project management

PG&E is unable to provide VISA sponsorship to students on an F-1, J-1 or other student visa for this position.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

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

Industry
Energy & Utilities
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Oakland, California
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
pge.com
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