Electric Transmission Asset Strategy Manager-Flexible Location

Requisition ID # 171027 

Job Category: Engineering / Science 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Strategy & Growth

Work Type: Onsite

Job Location: Oakland; Alameda; Alta; American Canyon; Angels Camp; Antioch; Auberry; Auburn; Avenal; Avila Beach; Bakersfield; Balch Camp; Bay Point; Bear Valley; Belden; Bellota; Belmont; Benicia; Berkeley; Brentwood; Brisbane; Buellton; Burney; Buttonwillow; Calistoga; Campbell; Canyon Dam; Canyondam; Capitola; Caruthers; Chico; Clearlake; Clovis; Coalinga; Colusa; Concord; Concord; Corcoran; Cottonwood; Cupertino; Daly City; Danville; Davis; Dinuba; Downieville; Dublin; Emeryville; Eureka; Fairfield; Folsom; Fort Bragg; Fortuna; Fremont; French Camp; Fresno; Fresno; Fulton; Garberville; Geyserville; Gilroy; Grass Valley; Guerneville; Half Moon Bay; Hayward; Hinkley; Hollister; Holt; Huron; Jackson; Kerman; King City; Lakeport; Lemoore; Lincoln; Linden; Livermore; Lodi; Loomis; Los Banos; Lower Lake; Madera; Magalia; Manteca; Manton; Mariposa; Martell; Marysville; Maxwell; Menlo Park; Merced; Meridian; Millbrae; Milpitas; Modesto; Monterey; Montgomery Creek; Morgan Hill; Morro Bay; Moss Landing; Mountain View; Napa; Needles; Newark; Newman; Novato; Oakdale; Oakhurst; Oakley; Olema; Orinda; Orland; Oroville; Palo Alto; Palo Cedro; Paradise; Parkwood; Paso Robles; Petaluma; Pioneer; Pismo Beach; Pittsburg; Placerville; Pleasant Hill; Point Arena; Potter Valley; Quincy; Rancho Cordova; Red Bluff; Redding; Richmond; Ridgecrest; Rio Vista; Rocklin; Roseville; Round Mountain; Sacramento; Salida; Salinas; San Bruno; San Carlos; San Francisco; San Francisco; San Jose; San Luis Obispo; San Mateo; San Rafael; San Ramon; San Ramon; Sanger; Santa Cruz; Santa Maria; Santa Nella; Santa Rosa; Selma; Shaver Lake; Sonoma; Sonora; South San Francisco; Springville; Stockton; Storrie; Taft; Tracy; Turlock; Twain; Ukiah; Vacaville; Vallejo; Walnut Creek; Wasco; Washington; Watsonville; West Sacramento; Wheatland; Whitmore; Willits; Willow Creek; Willows; Windsor; Winters; Woodland; Yuba City

Department Overview

The Electric T&S Asset Failure and Outage Strategy leads the team responsible for asset strategy for transmission overhead lines and substations. Incumbents are responsible for reviewing outages and failures of T&S assets and development proposals and for managing and improving performance of electric transmission assets from a long and short-term, reliability, asset-centric perspective.

Position Summary

Incumbents partner with internal departments and cross-functional teams to establish the safest, most reliable, and cost-effective electric transmission infrastructure system, and may communicate with regulators, customers and other external stakeholders to advance PG&E’s objectives.

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

Position will require approximately 20% of travel time in work schedule. 

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:$163,000
Bay Area Maximum: $277,000

OR

California Minimum:$155,000
California Maximum: $263,000

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

Job Responsibilities

•    Reviews outages and failures and develops long-term-strategy project proposals for substation and overhead line infrastructure. Ensures strategy is consistent, developed in concert with stakeholders (e.g. Risk Management, Transmission Compliance), and aligned with company objectives.
•    Creates data-based decision support tools to identify sustainability issues and inform asset strategy planning.
•    Oversees the engineers tasked with creating plans for specific assets. Ensures annual and strategy documents are completed and updated.
•    Develops and manages development budgets, regularly monitoring expenses against forecast, providing explanation or justification for budget items and/or variances.
•    Manages supervisors and professional employees.
•    Manages staff to accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, rewards and recognition.

Qualifications-

Minimum Qualifications:  
•    Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent work experience
•    8 years of engineering experience, including experience with cycle time planning of assets and strategy related to infrastructure asset development.
Desired Qualifications:
•    Masters in Business Administration or equivalent work experience
•    Professional Engineering License
o    Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and (Technical) Competencies
o    Understanding of electric utility operations business practices and processes.
o    Understanding of customer reliability issues.
o    Expert knowledge in electric system maintenance and reliability, engineering design and construction.
o    Strong leadership skills to manage a diverse team.
o    Strategic decision making and problem-solving skills.
o    Excellent communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills.