Manager, Work Planning and Alignment

Requisition ID # 164502 

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

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; Goodyear; 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; Watsonville; West Sacramento; Wheatland; Whitmore; Willits; Willow Creek; Willows; Windsor; Winters; Woodland; Yuba City

Department Overview

The Systems, Planning & Intelligence (SP&I) resides in the Land, Environmental & Permitting (LEAPS) organization.    LEAPS is responsible for securing the rights and permits essential for building California’s energy system, while protecting and restoring the planet.  SP&I serves as the planning, program management, data, process and technology backbone of the LEAPS organization.   It works in conjunction with LEAPS and its Operations partners to ensure delivery of construction ready work.   Process wise, SP&I develops system automations, data analytics, and geospatial technology to enhance the LEAPS teams’ capabilities as facilitating partners in work readiness, compliance and execution.  More broadly, it is responsible for providing technical solutions across LEAPS that enable efficiency by utilizing sustainable, scalable, and reliable technology to extract meaningful insights from data, empowering strategic and well-informed decision making.  

Position Summary

The Manager of Work Planning & Alignment will lead a team focused on ensuring EP&S and Operations are working in partnership to create executable work plans.

Responsibilities of the Work Planning & Alignment team include:

Forecasting: modeling estimated construction ready (“shovel-ready”) dates on behalf of the EP&S organization.  

Plan Alignment: Coordinating with the work planning functions of Electric Operations on behalf of LEAPS to ensure work is planned at optimal.

Analysis: Assessing cycle times and feasibility of EP&S timelines to for opportunities to streamline process and adjust work plans.

Reporting: Facilitate regular weekly and monthly plan alignment calls with EP&S and Operations.

Plan Quality Assurance: Act as the gatekeeper to ensure jobs moved in and out of work plans are executable by EP&S

Issue Resolution: Work directly with the Central Design, Supply Chain and LEAPS teams to validate job status data and ensure accuracy of information being used for planning assumptions.

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.

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 between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​ This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.  

A reasonable salary range is:​

Bay Area Minimum: $132,000      

Bay Area Maximum $226,000      

-Or-

California Minimum: $125,000

California Maximum:$215,000

Job Responsibilities: 

• Manage hiring, goal setting, performance management and development for direct report team
• Guide analysis on complex data models used to inform what is included in Operations work plans and when that work is planned.
• Direct the development of complex integrations with impact and application across multiple departments and processes.
• Solve unique and complex problems, anticipating issues and developing innovative solutions. Presents findings and recommendations to senior leaders to gain agreement.
• Work with senior management across EP&S and Operations to support strategic planning and decision making.
• Manages major cross-functional projects and process improvement initiatives
• Manages technology utilized by the team; Power BI, Reporting Power Apps, Power Automate, and SharePoint Lists.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• Leadership experience, 2 years
• Job-related experience, 6 years

Desired:

• Masters Degree in Computer Science or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• Experience in data management
• Utility industry experience, or related, 3 years
• Experience with data analysis tools
• Experience in project management
• ASM-Agile Scrum Master Certification
• Agile Certification