Electric Transmission Planning Senior Manager-Flexible Location

Requisition ID # 168216 

Job Category: Engineering / Science 

Job Level: Senior Manager

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland; Fresno; San Jose; San Luis Obispo; West Sacramento

Department Overview

The team of Electric Engineering ensure all manners of electric engineering are in place to safely enable a strategic and stable workplan for our Electric Operations partners. Our organization is accountable for planning, financial budgeting, and project execution and delivery of all electric engineering projects.

The Transmission System Planning (TSP) department performs Interconnection studies, multi-year assessments and develops a portfolio of transmission expansion plans and projects to meet the company's transmission needs for delivery of safe and reliable electric service to our customers while adhering to North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) planning standards. The department is also involved in developing transmission expansion and strategy to help achieve the Company's and California's clean energy goals.

Position Summary

The Senior Manager of Electrical Transmission Interconnection Planning oversees the strategic development, planning, and interconnection of generation and load interconnection projects in PG&E’s Electric Transmission System. This position is accountable for providing leadership and direction for system design and capital program investments to facilitate successful interconnections, while promoting a culture of safety, and cultivating technical expertise within the organization. The Senior Manager ensures compliance with applicable tariffs, standards, and processes, and driving continuous process development and organizational growth. Additionally, this role provides technical and strategic guidance internally and serves as PG&E's representative at regulatory, industry, and customer forums. 

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. 

Location is flexible within the PG&E Service Territory between Fresno, West Sacramento, Oakland, San Luis Obispo or San Jose locations, please note hiring leader will make final decision of what are appropriate headquarters for the role based on business need. 

Position will require approximately 15% of travel time in work schedule. 

Incumbent should expect to attend team staff meetings in Oakland.

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:$170,000
Bay Area Maximum: $290,000

OR

California Minimum:$162,000
California Maximum: $276,000

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

Job Responsibilities

•    Oversees the strategic development and planning for PG&E’s transmission generation and load interconnections by providing leadership and direction for system design and capital program investments. Removes obstacles by building relationships across the organization with stakeholders and other departments. Identifies gaps in existing processes and drives process improvement.
•    Provide strategic direction, technical training, and guidance to the Interconnection Planning team and internal stakeholders for generation and load interconnection deliverables for CPUC and FERC Jurisdictional projects.
•    Represent PG&E at external engagements providing technical expertise and shaping discussions at industry forums on key policy and tariff initiatives related to load and generation interconnections.
•    Stays abreast of developments across the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) systems to ensure PG&E’s rights or interests are not impacted.  Promotes the future development of the transmission system and provides PG&E representation on transmission issues with key external stakeholders, municipal utilities, generators, neighboring utilities and others as required.
•    Leads the development and evaluation of transmission system plans in area, regional and interconnection planning to support PG&E’s objectives to demonstrate compliance with NERC/WECC/CAISO Reliability Standards.
•    Leads the development of methodology, studies and evaluation of transmission system plans supporting emerging Company issues such as the impact of inclusion of transmission in power outages, resource adequacy and electrification. 
•    Leads the development of key department capacity and reliability metrics to aid in strategic goal setting and work progression supporting support safe and reliable service to customers.
•    Represents PG&E during regulatory proceedings and contract negotiations, including serving as PG&E witness at the CPUC, FERC and other regulatory areas. 
•    Responsible for cross-functional communication on transmission related issues with key internal stakeholders (for example, Law, Substation and T-Line Engineering, System Protection, Operations Engineering, Project Managers, Asset Strategy, Distribution Planning, Energy Procurement) to provide for the safe, efficient and reliable operation of the PG&E transmission system.
•    Provides technical information relating to transmission capacity capital content for investment planning processes, including business strategy, goals and work execution planning.
•    Manages staff to accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, rewards and recognition.
•    Leads the development and management of Transmission Planning’s expense budgets, monitoring expenses against forecasts and explaining and/or justifying budget items and/or variances.  
•    Supports the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) during emergency situations such as power outages, major storms, heat waves, and earthquakes.

Qualifications-

Minimum Qualifications:  
•    Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent related experience
•    10 years progressive experience developing transmission plans 
•    3 years leadership experience
Desired Qualifications:
•    Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus in Power Systems.
•    Master’s in Electrical Engineering
o    Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and (Technical) Competencies
o    Excellent written and oral communication skills.
o    Strong leadership and presentation skills.
o    Excellent interpersonal, influence, negotiation and collaboration skills.
o    Strong decision making and problem-solving skills.
o    Competency in providing direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done
o    Competency in building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
o    Competency in interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions
o    Competency in making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward
o    Knowledge of applicable engineering principles, codes, regulations, policies, and procedure’s related to the industry and PG&E - for example FERC, NERC, CAISO, CPUC.
o    Strong understanding of project management concepts and practices.
o    Understanding of PG&E culture and knowledge of what departments are needed to partner with to accomplish this role’s operational objectives.