Principal Asset Management Specialist

Requisition ID # 167742 

Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The team of Electric Operations ensure the delivery of clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to nearly 16 million people in Northern and Central California. Electric Operations is responsible for every aspect of PG&E's electric distribution and transmission operations, including planning, engineering, maintenance and construction, asset management, business planning, restoration and emergency response


Position Summary

This position is responsible for developing and enabling a comprehensive and effective maintenance strategy for the substation asset family.  The strategy would take into account the condition of assets (age, type, etc.), design, failure modes, means of predicting and preventing failures, and prioritized by relative risks and consequences of failures.  Responsibility would include the development and implements of the asset management framework with feedback from various stakeholders across the lines of business.  Also responsible for critical assessment to tie the maintenance strategy and risk reduction effectiveness.

This position would lead the development of testimony for rate cases, pertaining to maintenance strategy as related to the overarching Asset Management Plan. Contributes toward Electric Safety Excellence goals by improving safety, reliability and affordability for substation asset families.

Position duties may include but are not limited to- 

•    Leads the development of effective asset inspection and maintenance strategy with alignment to overall asset strategy
•    Develops and applies a deeper understanding of the ability various inspection and maintenance practices in preventing in-service asset failures
•    Develops and updates inspection and maintenance requirements of substation assets to ensure effectiveness at the right costs.
•    Ensures alignment of inspection and maintenance program with asset expense investments
•    Provides regulatory testimony associated inspection and maintenance strategy.
•    Acts as main liaison on risk management with maintenance strategy to internal (standards, maintenance execution, regulatory teams) and external stakeholders (CPUC, FERC, CAISO, etc.) 
•    Develops, implements, and monitors appropriate asset family risk mitigation activities and maintenance controls.
•    Coordinates with other asset family owners and SME and understands integration of all asset management maintenance plans
•    Supports investment planning in risk-based prioritization assessments, ensuring high level of alignment in methodologies and assessments
•    Contributes to the development of best practices in risk and asset management
•    Develops and coordinates the preparation of presentation materials for senior management.
•    Leads and/or coordinates rate case testimony for maintenance strategy

Leadership:

•    Provides technical leadership to a stakeholder team to drive an effective inspection and maintenance program.
•    Develops, documents, updates, and maintains maintenance strategy requirements, process and procedures Provide technical guidance to failure analysis, technology evaluation, replacements criteria, etc.
•    Coordinate with execution team to ensure effective execution and cost efficiency.
•    Develop inspection and maintenance record requirements to optimize asset decisions
•    Provide guidance and solicit feedback from maintenance and operations stakeholders.
•    Effectively communicates highly complex ideas to diverse audiences

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

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 (Oakland). 

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:$140,000

Bay Area Maximum: $238,000

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


Job Responsibilities

•    Leads asset family risk assessment efforts and coordinates across asset families in accordance with PG&E standard practice
•    Provides the single point of contact on risk management within the asset family
•    Develops, implements, and monitors appropriate asset family risk mitigation activities and controls, working with Electric Operations business clients.
•    Coordinates with other asset family owners and SME and understands integration of all asset management plans
•    Oversees coordination of risk register updates and asset management plans for their asset families
•    Leverages risk information to understand and challenge business decisions.
•    Contributes to the development of best practices in risk and asset management across Electric Operations
•    Develops and coordinates the preparation of presentation materials for senior management.
•    Leads and/or coordinates rate case initiatives for asset families
•    Effectively communicates highly complex ideas to diverse audiences
•    Develops, documents, updates, and maintains Asset Management process and procedures that meet requirements and adhere to defined policies
•    Ensures the Asset Family Owner (AFO) as the risk owner is aware of the level of risk faced (the Risk Champion is not the risk owner)
•    Supports investment planning in risk-based prioritization assessments, ensuring high level of alignment in methodologies and assessments
•    Works closely with other functions, in particular with Asset Knowledge Management, to support the AFO in developing an asset management data quality improvement plan
•    Understands the ERM reporting requirements and facilitate the asset family in achieving these

Qualifications-

Minimum:
•    Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
•    10 years of utility or other related experience


Desired:
•    Knowledge of risk analysis and assessment
•    Knowledge of Electric Operations business and associated assets
•    Knowledge of root cause analysis
•    Strong communication skills both verbal and in writing
•    Ability to integrate various streams of information into a cohesive plan
•    Ability to work independently and across multiple functions, work collaboratively to build strong working relationships
•    Ability to facilitate decision-making
•    Ability to synthesize complex issues into easy to understand concepts
•    Ability to influence varying levels of leadership and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
•    Ability to manage multiple competing priorities to completion.
•    Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information.
•    Ability to engage appropriate Subject Matter Experts (SME) and key stakeholders
•    Previous experience in asset management and maintenance