Gas Measurement Data Analyst

Requisition ID # 156184 

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Gas Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Dublin; Stockton

Department Overview

Gas Operations ensure the delivery of safe and reliable flow of natural gas service to our customers. Gas Operations is responsible for every aspect of PG&E's gas distribution and transmission operations, including planning, engineering, maintenance and construction, asset management, business planning, restoration and emergency response.

The Integrity Management organization’s vision is to:

• Improve pipeline safety and system reliability with a goal of zero safety incidents.

• Promote a safety culture throughout all levels of the organization with an emphasis on improving learning from the past and anticipating the future.

• Apply integrity management principles on a system-wide basis while engaging our stakeholders, from local communities we operate in to our regulators, so they can understand and participate in reducing our risk.

• Support the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the transmission and distribution pipeline systems through the proactive use of asset knowledge, threat identification, knowledge of threat interaction, data integration and analytical tools to increase operational efficiency, improve system integrity and minimize safety risk to employees and the communities we operate in.

Position Summary

Responsible for measurement data review and analysis to ensure gas measurement used for billing and custody transfer is accurate. Performs editing of inaccurate or missing measurement data due to equipment failures. Works with internal and external customers regarding measurement issues. Identifies problem(s) and coordinates between field offices, gas accounting and external customers to ensure problems are resolved in a timely manner.

Promotes upgrades to the measurement software application interconnected with the overall gas measurement system. If requested, to present job aids to company personnel so that they have a better understanding of the overall measurement data process to help improve measurement reliability and accuracy.

For the role- some office work for training initially and ongoing collaboration in Stockton and at Dublin center for safety and innovation.

Location is flexible within the PG&E Service Territory between Stockton and Dublin, please note hiring leader will make final decision of what are appropriate headquarters for the role based on business need.

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 (Stockton or Dublin).

Please note hiring leader will make final decision of what are appropriate headquarters for the role based on business need.

50% of time will be travel between Stockton and/or Dublin [depending on HQ]. There will also be organizational staff meetings at 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:$80,000

Bay Area Maximum:$120,000

&/OR

California Minimum:$76,000

California Maximum: $114,000

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

Qualifications-

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• 3 years relevant experience in accounting.
• Good understanding of the computer systems and Microsoft suite of products.

Desired Qualifications:

• 5 years relevant experience in the natural gas industry.

• Knowledge, Skills, Abilities Desired
  • Knowledge of FlowCal software and gas transmission or distribution systems.
  • Experience working with system networks.
  • Ability to learn and understand multiple systems simultaneously.
  • Understanding of field gas flow/volume measurement hardware, gas accounting department procedures, and PGE measurement maintenance standards and guidelines.
  • Basic understanding or measurement parameters such as gas temperature, pressure and compositional information and its impact on volume and dekatherm measurement.
  • Ability to complete assigned responsibilities such as running jobs, assisting customers, completing reports and prioritizing conflicting assignments while adhering to deadlines.
  • Ability to work through issues and problems with support from senior staff and management.
  • Demonstrates analytical problems solving skills.
  • Self-motivated and possess decisiveness in judgment with little supervision.
  • Ability to update and test programs and applications.
  • Ability to organize data and document processes and procedures created for work product.
  • Experience working with Microsoft Excel functions.

Responsibilities

• Reviews measurement data for completeness, accuracy and validity.

• Analyzes measurement data collected from various gas measurement devices and ensures the equipment is properly configured and is operating per company standards and guidelines to meet company’s measurement accuracy requirements.

• Consults with measurement engineers, measurement specialists, field supervisors/technicians, gas control, customer account managers/representatives, and customers to resolve measurement issues, technicians about measurement data corrections including editing missing data gaps, incorrect measurement data, and incorrect or missing calibration records.

• Identifies changes needed to maintain accurate measurement as operating conditions change in various metering stations and consult with operating technicians to implement those changes.

• Reviews measurement data that has been manually or automatically entered into various gas measurement database systems to ensure data is complete and accurate.

• Consults with technicians about measurement data corrections including editing missing data gaps, incorrect measurement data and incorrect or missing calibration records.

• Develops and recommends data validation procedures to ensure collected measurement data is complete and accurate.

• Interfaces between the Gas Accounting department, measurement engineering staff, measurement specialists, customer reps. and field offices to resolve measurement issues to the satisfaction of all concerned parties.

• Provides measurement systems support for specialists, customer/producer measurement quality control, and regulatory/tariff compliance.

• Responds to internal and external customer questions and provide proper feedback by consulting with peers and management.

• Provides measurement data to support Regulatory reporting requirements.

• Maintains the FlowCal measurement database.

• Maintains disaster recovery preparedness for FlowCal application and associated database.

• Collaborates with measurement specialists, engineers, field supervisors/technicians, gas meter shop, billing, customer account managers/representatives and IT the set up of new gas measurement devices.