Requisition ID # 157883
Job Category: Project / Program Management
Job Level: Manager/Principal
Business Unit: Electric Operations
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Oakland
Department Overview
PG&E’s Undergrounding Program is leading the effort to underground 10,000 miles of electric distribution lines throughout PG&E’s service territory, with the goal of reducing the risk of wildfires for our customers and hometowns. We are supported by a cross-functional group of coworkers focused on the safe and affordable execution of work.
Position Summary
The Principal Program Manager for the Undergrounding Program will help lead and manage all aspects of risk within the organization while ensuring complete alignment with regulatory reporting requirements. This position will partner with Risk Management, Asset Strategy, and Wildfire Risk, among other teams, in forming and executing our strategy. This will include partnering with a cross-functional team to develop risk models and other relevant information to select the scope of our system hardening and undergrounding work.
This position will be an essential member of the overall Undergrounding leadership team and will serve as a critical contributor to the development of the Undergrounding Senate Bill 884, 10-Year Plan.
- This position is hybrid. You will work from your remote office and your assigned location based on business needs. The headquarters location is flexible within the PG&E service 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 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, particular skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity.
We would not anticipate that the individual hired into this role would land at or near the top half of the range described below, but the decision will be dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.
A reasonable salary range is:
Minimum Base Salary (Bay Area): $140,000.00
Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area): $238,000.00
&/OR
Minimum Base Salary (California): $133,000.00
Maximum Base Salary (California): $226,000.00
Job Responsibilities
- Recognized subject matter expert who represents PG&E in regulatory and/or industry forums on the subject of expertise.
- Solves unique and complex problems, anticipating issues and developing innovative solutions.
- Demonstrates strategic leadership with internal stakeholders to support Company goals.
- Organize and lead cross-utility project teams to influence utility, regulatory, and/or industry decisions.
- Ensure the required regulatory reporting on the system hardening and undergrounding programs is completed and delivered to the appropriate parties.
- Develop content and formal presentations to convey the need for complex decision-making.
- Prepares and presents regular updates to senior management, addressing issues and gaining buy-in on solutions.
- Develop and implement strategies to mitigate identified risks, working closely with project teams and stakeholders to implement appropriate risk mitigation measures.
- Establish and maintain a risk governance framework and process to ensure effective risk management practices are incorporated into undergrounding.
- Coaches and mentors less experienced employees.
Qualifications
Minimum:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Job-related experience, ten years.
- Experience in project participation, high complexity.
Desired:
- Experience developing complex quantitative risk or economic models.
- Master’s degree in job-related discipline or equivalent experience.
- PMI-Project Management Institute PMP-Project Management Professional certification.
- Ability to understand the business to help drive strategic decision-making and recommend operational improvements.
- Deep knowledge and expertise of business and or industry drivers.
- Ability to create compelling business cases based on complex business environments and inputs.