Senior Failure Analysis Engineer
 PG&E | |
 United States, California, Danville | |
 May 14, 2025 | |
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Requisition ID# 165256 Job Category: Engineering / Science Job Level: Individual Contributor Business Unit: Electric Engineering Work Type: Onsite Job Location: Danville; San Ramon Department Overview 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. PG&E's Applied Technologies Services (ATS) Materials Engineering & Corrosion group provides a range of services, which include failure analysis, condition assessments, and material specification testing. Facility description: ATS has a metallurgical laboratory with an emphasis on Failure Analysis. The laboratory is equipped with a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), several light microscopes, image analysis system, micro-hardness testers, and a mechanical testing lab. Position Summary The ATS Senior Failure Analysis Engineer will utilize engineering consulting principles, their expertise, and scientific work methods to identify, diagnose and solve technical problems. They will independently lead failure analysis and miscellaneous engineering testing projects supporting the development, execution, data analysis, and report of failure analysis and materials testing. The ATS Senior Engineer is expected to utilize engineering first principles to establish inspections, failure analysis, performance assessments, and component evaluations for the different lines of business. They will be capable of using advanced data analytics to integrate failure analysis and testing results into asset management strategies for various lines of business. They should have a strong understanding of various material failure modes, including comprehensive knowledge of non-destructive (NDE) and destructive examination techniques, as well as material and manufacturing processing techniques. Ideally, they will possess extensive expertise in quality and reliability testing of mechanical assemblies, electrical components rated above 60 Volts, and related materials. The ideal candidate will have a broad testing background including experience testing components under dynamic or static forces (e.g., tensile and impact testing), material properties (e.g., hardness and metallography), and chemical testing (e.g., FT-IR, LIBS). Materials they will most likely encounter on the job are Steels (pipes, valves, vessels), Aluminum (wire, fittings, connectors), Copper (wire, valves), and ceramics (insulators). This role will occasionally lead miscellaneous engineering and test projects based upon their area of specialty (e.g., corrosion, coatings, thermal analysis, finite element analysis, etc.) Additionally, the preferred candidate should have experience in evaluating business conditions to identify opportunities for innovation, cost reduction, and process improvement. Travel requirement: 10-30% of the time, throughout the PG&E 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 thejob posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will bebased on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience,market value, geographic location, and internal equity.Although we estimatethe successful candidate hiredinto this rolewill be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decisionwill be made on a case-by-casebasis related tothese factors. A reasonable salary range is:
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