Electric Program Management, Manager

Requisition ID # 165827 

Job Category: Project / Program Management 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Electric Operations

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview
PG&E’s Underground Program organization is working to reduce wildfire risk each day as we underground 10,000 miles of distribution lines. We are responsible for working across all internal teams and engaging external stakeholders to support successfully meeting our goals and reducing wildfire risk in our hometowns. The team will engage with internal stakeholders to understand and confirm needs and implement sourcing strategies in partnership with PG&E’s Supply Chain organization to meet those needs.

Similarly, this team will lead PG&E’s engagement and partnership with third party providers of construction resources, materials or other services needed to support the Undergrounding program.  

Position Summary
The Electric Program Management leadership manages teams in the planning, execution and ongoing monitoring/management for all system-wide work (or projects) in a major work category (program). Incumbents may be involved in program design, execution or both. Incumbents monitor internal and external factors that affect the planning, forecasting and successful execution of the program work and determine, recommend and implement adjustments as needed.

The leader ensures work is completed and verifies that activities are compliant with applicable regulations, tariffs, standards and work procedures.

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 would not anticipate that the individual hired into this role would land at or near the top half of the range described below, but the decision will be dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

A reasonable salary range is:

1. Annual Minimum:       $144,000
2. Annual Midpoint:     $194,00
3. Annual Maximum:      $244,000   

Job Responsibilities
Typically assigned to multiple programs or may be assigned to one significantly large, complex program. Approximate program portfolio size of 1 to 3 programs, totaling approximately $400 million in annual work.

• Develops metrics and monitors performance of work within assigned program. Sets and achieves staff goals in support of established functional objectives.  Depending on nature of project work in program, may have interface with external customer organizations. Handles sensitive, escalated customer issues.
• Collects, consolidates and analyzes work completion information to determine overall trending. Develops and delivers presentation on program status, risk and corrective measures to leaders of various levels, including executive. Allocates underground and system hardening portfolio for current and future years, managing demand, safety, cost savings, location of the work, and resource capacity.  
• Responsible for assigning the internal or external resources and ensuring that the necessary projects are contracted to facilitate construction of the necessary assets.  Responsible for maintaining relationships with resources, internal and external.  Supervises Program Managers, Analysts and/or Specialists.
• Partners with Director in developing contracting strategy, bundles, appropriate staffing needs, and priorities. Manages staff to accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, and rewards and recognition.
•  Leads staff to oversee the design and/or implementation of assigned program work for the entire service territory. Types of program work may include maintenance and construction, large volume customer requests or expansion of existing types of work.
• Leads process improvement initiatives for program management. Oversees process and procedure development, implementation, communications and training for new programs and/or changes to existing programs. Coaches staff to identify gaps in work methods, procedures, processes or training and partners with stakeholders to recommend solutions.
• Ensures consistency with related work processes, standards and procedures. May function as a consultant, subject matter expert or a project manager depending upon the needs of the various business partners. Ensures work is prioritized based on available resources, size of the project portfolio, costs, risks, exposures or customer needs, while remaining compliant with applicable regulations

Qualifications
Minimum:

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, or other relevant discipline or equivalent experience. 
• Eight (8) years of relevant experience in areas such as: electric construction, maintenance, service planning, compliance, financial planning or quality control/assurance.
• Three (3) years leadership or team lead experience.

Desired

• PMI-Project Management Institute PMP-Project Management Professional certification