Manager, Electric Compliance

Requisition ID # 162240 

Job Category: Compliance / Risk / Quality Assurance 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The Wildfire Safety Compliance team is part of the Electric Operations Electric Regulatory Compliance department in Electric Engineering, where our focus is to support the creation of a compliance culture in Electric Operations and Engineering that exceeds safety, reliability, and customer and regulator expectations. The Wildfire Safety Compliance team is responsible for processing all California Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety (OEIS or Energy Safety) and and California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CALFIRE) regulatory compliance activities for PG&E’s electric transmission and distribution operations.   

Position Summary

This is a hybrid position headquartered in Oakland General Office. Current department expectation has staff in the office at least 1 day per week for regular work and additionally as needed for business needs.

The Electric Compliance leaders oversee the creation and maintenance of electric compliance programs as well as the audit and quality activities for program monitoring and governance.. Incumbents lead the creation, maintenance, and oversight of activities for both external regulatory compliance requirements and internal company requirements. The incumbents may oversee the data warehousing and analysis related to compliance and/or the audit activities for monitoring and governance. The incumbents ensure that work is done consistent with procedures and guidelines and that group objectives are met.

The successful candidate will assume all daily activities for the wildfire regulatory compliance team including leadership of seven (7) individual contributors from senior through principal level, and additional contractual help as needed on a seasonal basis to support the work.

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: $​136,000

Bay Area Maximum: $​232,000

&/OR​

California Minimum: $​129,000

California Maximum: $220,000

Responsibilities:

• Manages the fact-finding investigation, determination, and reporting of wildfire compliance findings and issues to appropriate leadership forums. 
• Develops and maintains the compliance evidence record and repository. May oversee staff specialized in this function.
• Works on special projects and process improvement initiatives in Electric Operations as they relate to compliance programs, such as benchmarking best practices in the industry and implementing recommended improvements. Assesses and determines potential impacts. Recommends responses to challenges.
• Presents to executives on programmatic details in response to risk management requests, regulatory items, and other external communications.
• Determines most effective department metrics to measure performance against annual or longer-term goals and objectives for time bound projects or ongoing operational work. Regularly presents department scorecard to senior management and adjusts based on business needs.
• Develops and manages department budget, regularly monitoring expenses against forecast, providing explanation or justification for budget items and/or variances.
• Coaches and guides program managers and reviews in detail proposed programs for feasibility, completeness, and compliance. Oversees continual program process improvement, which includes benchmarking with other utilities, collaborating with Engineering, Standards, Work Methods & Procedures, M&C, etc., developing high level financial forecasts, and presenting to senior leadership.
• Manages staff to accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management and rewards and recognition.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• 8 years of experience with electric utility or related programs
• 5 years of experience as a program or project manager
• Travel is 40% with occasional overnight stays

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in Engineering
• Advanced degree in Law or Business Administration
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Six Sigma Black Belt
• NERC Certified Operator
• Knowledge of operations, maintenance, and engineering program processes and procedures.
• Knowledge of project management tools and methodologies.
• Depth and breadth of knowledge of regulatory requirements from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety (OEIS or Energy Safety), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CALFIRE) North American Electric Reliability (NERC), Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC), and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), as they relate to Electric Operations.
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills including the ability to communicate messages to upper management and external regulators.
• Excellent project and process management skills.
• Analysis, written communication, and group collaboration skills and ability to lead teams and promote employee engagement.
• Influence and collaboration skills to achieve understanding, acceptance and commitment to act in support of ideas, programs or causes.
• Financial budgeting and planning knowledge and skills.
• Analytical problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Working knowledge of audit and quality assurance practices

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