PG&E Land Technician (Entry Level) - San Francisco

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Job Posting Title
Land Technician-ESC (San Francisco)
Job Posting Date: January 8, 2018
Requisition #: 348
Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Schedule: Full-time
City: San Francisco

Company
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, with 22,000 employees, the company delivers some of the nation’s cleanest energy to 15 million people in Northern and Central California.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is an Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity employer that actively pursues and hires a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability status, medical condition, protected veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other factor that is not related to the job.

Department Overview
The Land Surveying and Engineering Support (LS&ES) team is a group of 100 dedicated employees providing land surveying and mapping services in support of gas and electric transmission and distribution projects. These services include rights-of-way drawings, easement documents, engineering support drawings (plan &profile), topographic mapping and construction staking. We are located in 17 offices throughout the PG&E service territory.
Position Summary
This job is represented by Engineers and Scientists of California (ESC) and is subject to collective bargaining.
This position will be with the LS&ES South Coast Division working out of the General Office in San Francisco and possibly providing support throughout our entire division which spans from San Francisco to San Luis Obispo. LS&ES South Coast Division provides surveying support services to all lines of PG&E business including Gas Distribution and Transmission, Electric Distribution and Transmission, Substation Engineering, PG&E Corporate Real Estate, Pipeline Safety Enhancement Project, the Hydroelectric System Power Generation Dam Settlements, and Environmental Remediation. This position will prepare legal documents, legal descriptions, CAD drawings, CAD mapping, perform field surveying, office surveying calculations, customer communications, problem solving, preparing permits with outside agencies (CalTrans, UPRR, EBMUD, etc.) and other duties in supporting PG&E’s transmission, new business and customer distribution connections to our electrical and gas systems.
You must be able to travel at least 50% of the time within the PG&E service territory, including occasional overnight stays.

Qualifications
Minimum:
– 2 years of land surveying or civil engineering experience or the equivalent in education and/or experience
– Must possess a valid California driver’s license or ability to obtain by first day of employment
Desired:
– A California State Licensed Land Surveyor in Training (LSIT) or Professional Land Surveyor (PLS)
– Experience using MicroStation and/or AutoCAD
– Take initiative and can work with minimal direction
– Excellent written and oral communication skills
– Field or office experience in a land surveying capacity
– Ability to effectively work with and support colleagues
– Experience generating plan/profile mapping, topographic mapping and construction staking
– Experience writing/interpreting legal land descriptions
Responsibilities
– Perform routine work as a member of a survey party, make precise survey measurements using conventional and state of the art surveying instruments; interpret legal descriptions of real property; make and interpret survey calculations; research, analyze, check, and adjust survey data; research title and compile evidence and documentation for boundary determination. Operate the survey vehicle.
– Prepare maps from field notes, office data, and title searches for condemnation proceedings, obtain rights-of-way, purchase land, obtain government permits, and obtain leases and other land documents. Plot plan profiles, road cross-sections, topography, contours, and special drawings. Check mathematical computations of others.
– Assemble information for, and processing, clearing, and correcting of rights-of-way and land matters. This work includes such duties as preparing legal descriptions of real property; preparing all routine documents necessary for the acquisition of easements by the Company ; processing necessary forms for the procuring of permits; preparing and processing quitclaims; securing signatures; securing permits; inspecting property; preliminarily investigating encroachments; and preparing clear and concise reports and correspondence.

To Apply
Enter the requisition number 348 on our PG&E website: http://careers.pge.com
This position will be posted through January 18, 2018