Senior Incident Investigator - Location Flexible

Requisition ID # 169888 

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

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

Electric Asset & Regulatory is responsible for the electric system engineering and planning, asset strategy, and risk management across transmission, distribution, and substation asset families. This centralized, risk-informed approach allows PG&E to manage electric risk, asset and system health, interconnections, and performance by using consistent standards, work methods, prioritization, and program sponsorship, while leveraging lessons learned from inspections and asset data to inform asset management decisions. Accountable for asset planning and strategy, standards and work methods, and asset data management for Electric. 

The Electric Compliance Assurance department is part of the Regulatory Compliance organization, where together we will imbed compliance and risk in all that we do and achieve regulatory outcomes that support the business’ needs. The work of this department is critical in our efforts to find compliance challenges and identify areas of risk so that we can fix them. The main functions of this new department are identifying areas of compliance risk and opportunities to mitigate those risks, incident reporting and investigation, Electric Operations and Power Generation CAP, Serious Injury and Fatality Investigations, and privileged investigations.

Position Summary

PG&E is seeking an experienced business professional to be a member of the Electric Incident Investigations (EII) Team as an Incident Investigator, Senior. The EII team is responsible for reporting Electric Incidents (EIRs) to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), investigating EIRs and areas of compliance risk to determine the cause and any corrective or preventive measures to mitigate reoccurrence.

This role will have a high level of visibility with PG&E leadership and will support one or many aspects of EII’s scope. A strong applicant will be an organized, motivated, curious, a consensus builder, and seeks to understand the “bigger picture”. Location of this position is flexible within PG&E service territory and will require occasional travel to other areas around PG&E’s service territory. This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and assigned office based on business needs.

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:

• Minimum Base Salary (Bay Area)            $105,000.00
• Mid Base Salary (Bay Area)        $137,000.00
• Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area)           $169,000.00

• Minimum Base Salary (California)         $100,000.00
• Mid Base Salary (California)      $130,000.00
• Maximum Base Salary (California)        $161,000.00

Reporting Relationship

This position reports to the Supervisor, Electric Incident Investigations

Job Responsibilities and Expectations

• Identify areas of risk, develop and implement risk controls to mitigate risk.
• Project manages investigations, including building consensus with multiple senior leaders to stay on schedule.
• Abstract or synthesize from one set of ideas or facts to another, identify causal relationships, and anticipate obstacles during the investigation.

• Communicate with peers, subordinates, leadership, and stakeholders using a variety of methods and conveying information or conclusions in a clear, direct, and non-threatening manner.

• Investigate and manage investigation of Electric Incidents of medium risk. Prepare and submit Electric Incident Reports and Apparent Cause Evaluations (ACEs), including identifying corrective actions and gaining consensus with senior leadership to mitigate risk.
• Identify and summarize compliance risk concerns including forecasting potential Notices of Violation (NOVs) from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
• Prepare and submit responses to NOVs received by the CPUC.
• Manages very complex investigations and data extracts/analysis, ensuring data accuracy.
• Analyzes data using various advances statistical tools to develop reports, summaries, and trends.
• Demonstrates and utilizes broad expertise in data processing and data analysis and applies this knowledge to a number of different issues.
• Investigate fires of medium risk to PG&E, including working with PG&Es Legal team.
• Prepares and presents summary of findings and risk to PG&E to senior and executive leaders.

Background Qualifications

 Minimum

• BA/BS Degree in Marketing, Business, Computer Science, Engineering or other related field or equivalent work experience
• 4 years of related work experience

Desired

• Travel to other facilities for meetings and site visits about 10% to 20% of time
• Master’s Degree in information systems, Business, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with electric operation systems (data systems within electric operations).
• Proven ability to prepare materials for and effectively communicate/present highly complex findings to senior and executive leaders with clarity, gain consensus on path forward on aggressive timelines.
• Project management skills including ability to handle multiple projects with critical deadlines and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Maneuver through complex organizational situations effectively and without disruption.