Director, Dist. Inspections & Maintenance Strategy

Requisition ID # 165830 

Job Category: Engineering / Science 

Job Level: Director/Chief

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland; Dublin; Sacramento; San Jose; San Ramon

Position Summary

Oversees the electric distribution short-term and long-term asset inspections and maintenance strategies. Directs management team that determines the inspections and maintenance requirements and plans of the electric distribution system to ensure public and employee safety and enhance reliability. Ensures that inspection procedures and criteria are updated to incorporate insights from technical testing, failure analysis, and Subject Matter Expertise input. Interface with various external regulatory entities to provide updates on various inspection and maintenance related commitments.

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. 

Reporting Relationship

The Director, Dist. Inspections & Maintenance Strategy will report to the Electric Asset Management, Lead.

Job Responsibilities

• Reviews and approves new ideas and technologies to advance effectiveness and efficiency of the joint pole program & processes.
• Leads the development and deployment of long-term asset strategy and reliability programs, including review and approval of distribution system inspections and maintenance project plans.
• Presents findings and makes recommendations to officers and high-level leaders.
• Develops department long-term direction, operating plans, budgets and performance metrics.
• Ensures strategic plans are in place to accomplish ongoing performance improvement of inspection find rates, maintenance work bundling plans and improvements to inspections procedures.
• Enables and supports the development of the Asset Strategy and Distribution Engineering inspections and maintenance Standards process.
• Represents the company and acts as a chair/spokesperson with other utilities, various industry boards, committees, regulatory agencies, governmental bodies, and other private organizations. Develops and implements the Five-Year Capacity Plan.
• Leads staff to accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, change management, and rewards and recognition.

Leadership Qualities

PG&E expects its leaders to conduct themselves with the highest ethics and integrity and to embody specific leadership qualities.

Strategic Mindset

• Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Operating effectively, even when things are not certain, or the way forward is not clear.

A Leader in the Community and Industry

• Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
• Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Demonstrates Safety Leadership

• A safety champion in words and deeds with respect to both employee and public safety.
• Creating and maintaining a speak up culture free of retaliation.

Influences and Inspires

• Using various- communications that convey a clear understanding of the needs of different audiences.
• Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related dynamics.

Optimizes Team Performance

• Building teams with a strong identity that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
• Creating a climate where people are developed and motivated to do their best to help the organization.

Values Diversity and Creates Inclusion

• Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Fiscally Responsible

• Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.
• Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.

Leads Ethically and in a Compliant Manner

• Sponsoring and sustaining a high integrity speak-up corporate culture which prioritizes safety, compliance, and ethics.
• Building on necessary level of industry, company, and subject-matter expertise, including laws and regulations.

Provides a High Level of Customer Service

• Building strong customer relationships and delivering hometown, customer-centric solutions.

Compensation

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 of the range ($235,000), the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $174,000

Bay Area Maximum: $296,000

Background Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or job-related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Job-related experience, 10 years.

Desired

• PE-Professional Engineer license.
• LSS-Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification.
• Utility industry experience, job-related.
• Experience in asset strategy and development.
• Experience in distribution reliability.
• Experience in engineering, electrical.