Risk Analyst - Grid Operations & Reliability, Senior - OGO/Fresno/Sacramento/Stockton

Requisition ID # 172609 

Job Category: Compliance / Risk / Quality Assurance 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Strategy & Growth

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland; Fresno; Sacramento; Stockton

Department Overview:

Over 6,500 coworkers in Electric T&D ensure the delivery of clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to nearly 16 million people in Northern and Central California. The Electric T&D Team is responsible for ensuring the electric grid's reliability and resiliency through the ongoing maintenance and operations of PG&E's 100,000 miles of distribution lines and over 18,000 miles of Transmission lines. Coworkers in Electric T&D's actively engage in the Lean Methodology through the use of Visual Management in Operating Reviews to cross-functionally identify and solve problems, and create standard work. By working together as One Electric. One Team. We are delivering for our hometowns.

The hardworking coworkers of Electric Engineering ensure all manners of electric engineering—including electric standards and process safety, electric design engineering, instrumentation testing and controls, undergrounding, electric regulatory compliance and electric investment planning—are in place to safely enable a strategic and stable workplan for our Electric Operations partners. Our organization is accountable for program planning, financial budgeting, and project execution and delivery of all electric engineering projects. Electric Engineering is comprised of approximately 2,000 coworkers.

Position Summary:

The Risk Analyst is responsible for supporting an effective and efficient safety risk management program for Electric Transmission & Distribution. The position develops and implements a risk management framework, consults across the line of business to analyze risks and develop mitigation plans. Develops and maintains an asset risk register, coordinating with the various asset family owners across Electric T&D, to track operational and enterprise risks and the execution and effectiveness of risk mitigation activities. Serves as a liaison with the enterprise risk management function, ensuring alignment and common understanding of risks. Prepares reporting and analysis for the line of business and the enterprise. Responds to GRC and other regulatory data requests, including the supporting analysis.

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: $​95,000.00

Bay Area Maximum: $​143,000.00

California Minimum: $​90,000.00

California Maximum: $136,000.00

Responsibilities:

• Implements effective risk management framework across Electric T&D.
• Works with business partners to develop, implement, and monitor appropriate risk mitigation strategies and controls through the Electric Risk Register.
• Evaluate operational or market-interface risks using real-time system conditions, outage data, or grid performance metrics.
• Translate engineering or planning insights into real-time operational risk considerations.
• Supports and develops risk management guidance documents.
• Supports deployment of best practices in risk management.
• Participates in or may lead root cause analysis exercises.
• Participates in special projects related to risk management or regulatory issues.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Five years of experience in risk management, utility operations, and/or related field

Desired Qualifications:

• Engineering Degree preferred
• Master’s degree
• Knowledge of risk analysis and assessment
• Experience in electric system operations, field operations, engineering, design, or planning roles with demonstrated exposure to real-time grid operations, control center environments, or electric utility reliability operations
• Experience working with EMS, ADMS, Outage Management Systems (OMS), or similar real-time SCADA grid operations tools
• Strong communication skills for all levels of organization, both verbal and in writing
• Project management skills
• Ability to build strong working relationships
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information