Director, Maintenance & Construction

Requisition ID # 172401 

Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations 

Job Level: Director/Chief

Business Unit: Energy Delivery

Work Type: Onsite

Job Location: Paso Robles; Dublin; Fresno; Oakland; San Francisco; San Luis Obispo

Department Overview

T&S is responsible for the maintenance and construction of the Electric Transmission system, Project and Construction, Generation Interconnections, Work and Resource Management, Compliance and Temporary Generation departments.   The Coworkers of Electric Transmission and Substation Operations ensure the delivery of safe and reliable electric service to our customers.  T-Line M&C executes highest-risk maintenance and construction activities to improve public safety and operation of the grid.  

Position Summary

The Director, T-Line M&C South is responsible for leading operational aspects of the T-Line including system inspection, maintenance, and construction for large capital projects and ongoing expense work. The leader and team will provide safe and reliable electric service while maintaining compliance with the California Public Utility Commission General Orders, all Safety regulations and other regulatory requirements. The incumbent will work closely with Enterprise Health and Safety, Planning and Strategy, Standards and Work Methods, Engineering, Asset Management and other support functions to ensure safe and event-free operations of our transmission system and deliver on our stand of “everyone and everything is always safe”.

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. This role has a territory including Bay Area, Central Coast, and Central Valley. Expect 30% travel throughout the PG&E Service Territory.

Reporting

Reports into the Senior Director, Transmission Line.

Job Responsibilities 

•  Provides leadership in developing and implementing short and long-term strategies within the areas of T-Line reliability, execution, safety, and emergency response while ensuring the department meets all legal and regulatory compliance requirements for each area of responsibility.
• Routinely interacts with other business partners and develops extensive working relationships across all lines of business, to ensure overall business needs are being met. Proactively brings ideas, solutions, and alternatives to business partners for technical issues and challenges. Proactively solicits feedback from business partners on services.
• Executes on the 5 Lean Plays from the Lean Playbook for the T-Line organization identifying waste elimination opportunities, facilitates problem solving, leads operating reviews, creates visual management, promotes an environment of continuous improvement.
• Works with peer groups in Transmission and Substation Operations to ensure resources are adequately identified and mobilized to efficiently execute the annual work plan; this includes internal PG&E and contractor workforces as needed.
• Works with Asset Management and others as needed to ensure annual budgets are identified to accurately construct and maintain the T-Lines.
• Manages annual budgets in capital and expense projects.
• Provides ultimate accountability for ensuring that the department safety programs, and improvement plans are well designed and executed; leads organization to Best in Class Safety Behavior.
• Oversees projects involving interconnection with solar and/or alternative power generation sources (Electric Generation Interconnection – EGI). Ensures projects are completed on time, within budget and quality standards and that customer service objectives are met.
• Improves safety and human performance, including OSHA recordable rate, lost work day case rate, and motor vehicle incident rate. Ensures department has an active safety program where employees’ involvement is promoted, encouraged and fully supported.
• Improves employee morale and business understanding throughout service territory on an ongoing basis, seeking input and ideas from employees and sharing key message about Company performance, industry trends, etc.
• Supports diversity and inclusion goals and strategies.
• Improves transmission system reliability and drives scorecard metric improvements.
• Ensures compliance with all regulatory agency requirements including the California Public Utility Commission, Cal OSHA, Environmental Protection Agency, CAISO, NERC, WECC, etc., including oversight of Notice of Violation (NOV) and Notice to Comply (NOC) response, and environmental compliance.
• Recruit/select, communicate expectations, foster employee engagement, coach, develop, mentor, recognize and reward employees in order to drive performance and results.

Background Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or 12+ years of equivalent experience in an engineering or other technical role
• 10 years of experience working in utility industry with direct experience in operations engineering and previous supervisory roles

Desired 

• Master’s Degree in Engineering
• MBA
• P.E. Certification
• 2+ years of experience interfacing directly with regulatory agencies
• Experience in partnering with represented employees
• Project management experience on significant process improvement initiatives
• Direct or related experience in Substation construction and maintenance
• Experience managing large budgets

Leadership Qualities

PG&E expects its leaders to conduct themselves with the highest ethics and integrity and to embody specific leadership qualities.

Strategic Mindset

• Sees ahead to future possibilities and translates them into breakthrough strategies.
• Operates effectively, even when things are not certain, or the way forward is not clear.

A Leader in the Community and Industry

• Effectively builds formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
• Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Demonstrates Safety Leadership

• A safety champion in words and deeds with respect to both employee and public safety.
• Creating and maintaining a speak up culture free of retaliation.

Influences and Inspires

• Using various- communications that convey a clear understanding of the needs of different audiences.
• Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related dynamics.

Optimizes Team Performance

• Building teams with a strong identity that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
• Creating a climate where people are developed and motivated to do their best to help the organization.

Values Inclusion and Respects Individual Differences

• Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Fiscally Responsible

• Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.
• Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.

Leads Ethically and in a Compliant Manner

• Sponsoring and sustaining a high integrity speak-up corporate culture which prioritizes safety, compliance, and ethics.
• Building on necessary level of industry, company, and subject-matter expertise, including laws and regulations.

Provides a High Level of Customer Service

• Building strong customer relationships and delivering hometown, customer-centric solutions.

Compensation

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. 

We estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed within the reasonable compensation range of $196,800 to $282,900. The decision will be made on a case-by-case basis.  This leadership role is also eligible for an annual Short Term Incentive Plan (STIP) award, as well as the Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) grant.