Estimating Strength Testing Supervisor

Requisition ID # 171452 

Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations 

Job Level: Supervisor

Business Unit: Strategy & Growth

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: San Ramon

Department Overview

Gas Engineering is focused on ensuring the safe and reliable flow of natural gas to our customers.  As a part of Gas Engineering, Gas Transmission Engineering is responsible for all aspects of PG&E's gas transmission asset family, including integrity management, pipeline services, threat identification and assessment scoping, process safety, and project engineering and design.  The Gas Transmission Engineering and Design group (GTED), part of the Gas Transmission Engineering organization, is focused on providing the technical direction and design of gas transmission pipeline projects and supporting the execution of the work in the field.  The group also provides technical review and approval of project documentation post construction to ensure company records are updated accurately and reflect the scope of work performed.  The Design and Drafting group within GTED is responsible for updating record drawings of facilities based on the as-found or as-built condition at the conclusion of the work.

Position Summary

Oversees day-to-day operations of estimating team for electric and/or gas operations, reconstruction projects. The supervisor ensures that the team adheres to all standards and compliance requirements, while maintaining necessary production levels. The supervisor establishes clear performance expectations, monitors and follows up as required, and instills customer focus within the workgroup. Incumbents also contribute toward electric and/or gas safety excellence goals by improving safety, reliability and affordability for one or more asset families and one or more life cycles.

Position will require approximately 10% of travel time in work schedule. 

Headquarter base is San Ramon, but likely to change to Dublin in the future. 

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 (San Ramon [potentially Dublin in future]). 

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:$126,000
Bay Area Maximum: $200,000

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

Job Responsibilities
•    Supervises activities of ESC represented or contracted engineering estimators focusing on fostering a culture of safety first and being a leading design organization.
•    Tracks and monitors projects through the estimating process.
•    Schedules projects for estimators and monitors progress to provide status updates to project managers and ensure due dates met.
•    Maintains and develops functional expertise of estimators.
•    Manages performance of estimators by monitoring cycle times and quality of estimates.
•    Oversees interactions between estimators and key stakeholders such as Engineering, Project Management, and support services.
•    Recruit/select, communicate expectations, foster employee engagement, coach, develop, mentor, recognize and reward employees in order to drive performance and results. 
•    Manages Union employees.

Qualifications-

Minimum Qualifications:  
•    High School Diploma or Equivalent
•    5 years of relevant experience

Desired Qualifications:
•    Prior supervisory experience
•    Experience with Drafting, Estimating, 2D/3D CAD
o    Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and (Technical) Competencies
o    Safety: Ability to create, promote and manage a safe work environment
o    Budget/Expenses: Ability to develop and manage dept. budgets, expenses, variances
o    Communication: Ability to communicate and support company and organization policies, procedures, goals, objectives, vision and values
o    Operations Management: Ability to manage day-to-day operations, identify and implement operational changes and improvements in support of the business
o    Relationship Management: Ability to develop working relationships with customers and business partners where operations, service, support or other int er-dependencies exist
o    Continuous Improvement: Ability to encourageemployees to identify work process and system improvements, championand overcomeresistance to and facilitate change.
o    Leadership Presence: Ability to convey credibility, confidence and sense of authority. Conveys messages simply, concisely and at right pace and t one for audience. Remains calm, controlled and productive when confronted by opposition or work stress.
o    Functional Expertise: Ability to foster a learning environmentand to develop employees to ensure backfills and successors. Has an understanding of PG&E’s business to maximize results, limit risks and
o    effectively lead group.
o    Technical Knowledge & Expertise:
o    Knowledge of processes and tools used by estimators
o    Knowledge of Electric and/or Gas Standards and Manuals