Expert Power Generation Compliance & Risk Consultant- Flexible Location

Requisition ID # 172134 

Job Category: Compliance / Risk / Quality Assurance 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Energy Delivery

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Auburn; Oakland

Department Overview

Power Generation (PGen) operates and maintains PG&E's hydroelectric, fossil, solar generation, and battery storage facilities, providing approximately 5,300 megawatts of generating capacity for our customers. Our nearly 900 coworkers are dedicated to delivering safe, reliable, and cost-effective generation to California in an environmentally responsible manner. Our hydro facilities include 62 conventional hydro powerhouses, a pumped-storage facility, 98 reservoirs, 168 dams and more than 200 miles of canals and flumes, among other water conveyances. Natural gas-fired plants in operation are Humboldt Bay Generating Station in Eureka; Colusa Generating Station in Colusa County and Gateway Generating Station in Antioch. Several utility-scale solar generation plants also are operated and maintained, as well as PG&E’s successful entry into battery energy storage, our Elkhorn Battery facility at Moss Landing in Monterey County.

Position Summary

The PGen Risk, Compliance & Quality team is a governance and compliance team that supports the organization’s collective pursuit of a defensible compliance management framework to provide a network of critical traceability into the business’s control environment. The result enables governance and oversight of the business to verify necessary controls are in place to ensure PGen understands and manages its risks and operates in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, company objectives and goals.

The Power Generation Risk, Compliance & Quality Consultant reports to the PGen Risk, Compliance & Quality Senior Manager and is a significant contributor to the Compliance and Quality vision and strategy, supporting the design, development, and implementation as a function of risk for one or more lines of business.

The Compliance & Risk Consultant supports the development, implementation, and maintenance of the framework for compliance, quality and/or risk management. May be assigned to support a specific department or area of the business. Scope may be limited to one regulatory agency or may include multiple agencies, laws, and regulations applicable to a specific department or area of the business. Supports revisions to the compliance, quality and/or risk programs and tools as needed based on changes to applicable laws, regulations, and standards.

For risk management, develops and maintains a risk register, coordinating with various risk owners to track operational & enterprise risks and the effectiveness of risk mitigation activities. Partners with Subject Matter Experts (SME), Requirement/Risk Owners, and business SMEs to develop controls, and metrics to hold the assigned owners accountable for compliance and/or risk management performance. Supports change management, training, and communication of compliance standards, processes & results and/or risk management standards and risk analyses & assessments. The Compliance & Risk Consultant may also act as a liaison with regulatory agencies and respond to data/reporting inquiries.

Position will require less than 20% of travel time in work schedule. 

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location at OGO, in Oakland, California or Auburn Regional Office in Auburn California.

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:$122,000
Bay Area Maximum: $194,000

OR

California Minimum:$116,000
California Maximum: $184,000

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

Job Responsibilities

•    Provides expertise to leadership and cross-functional teams regarding development, implementation, and monitoring of controls and mitigation plans.
•    Develops compelling data-driven business cases for or against specific courses of action and potential risk mitigation alternatives as appropriate.
•    May lead company response to regulatory data requests, investigations, audits, and other inquiries.
•    Regularly updates leadership on changes to requirements/standards, metrics, program effectiveness, and opportunities for improvement.
•    Lead root cause analysis exercises, drives corrective actions, performs compliance assessments and control testing as needed.
•    May participate in risk management forums at the enterprise level.
•    May act as team lead but does not have any direct reports.

Qualifications-

Minimum Qualifications:    

•    Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
•    7+ years of relevant experience

Desired Qualifications:

•    Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Physical Science, or equivalent experience
•    Master’s degree desired
•    4 years’ experience managing compliance/risk programs or controls
•    Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP), or
•    Leading Professional in Ethics and Compliance (LPEC), or
•    Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), or
•    Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), or
•    Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), or
•    Certified Risk Management Professional (RIMS-CRMP), or
•    Other compliance or risk related certification, as applicable
•    ASQ Certification
•    Experience with ISO 55001 and ISO 9001
•    Experience as a Lead Auditor and/or Control Testing

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Competencies:
•    Excellent interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
•    Demonstrates broad expertise and applies advanced knowledge to wide-ranging compliance and/or risk management issues.
•    Expert level knowledge of assigned area of business including processes and procedures
•    Advanced knowledge of and ability to apply internal control concepts and/or risk analysis & assessment
•    Strong problem solving, project management, and change management skills
•    Ability to manipulate data and draw conclusions / make recommendations
•    Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate complex data effectively to a variety of audiences including 
•    executives
•    Ability to influence others in order to achieve understanding, acceptance, 
•    and commitment to act
•    Highly flexible, self-directed, and able to adapt well to a rapidly changing 
•    environment
•    Advanced skills in MS Office including Excel and PowerPoint