Manager, Distribution Inspections and Maintenance Strategy
Requisition ID # 171153
Job Category: Engineering / Science
Job Level: Manager/Principal
Business Unit: Strategy & Growth
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Oakland; Alameda; Alta; American Canyon; Angels Camp; Antioch; Auberry; Auburn; Avenal; Avila Beach; Bakersfield; Balch Camp; Bay Point; Bear Valley; Belden; Bellota; Belmont; Benicia; Berkeley; Brentwood; Brisbane; Buellton; Burney; Buttonwillow; Calistoga; Campbell; Canyon Dam; Canyondam; Capitola; Caruthers; Chico; Clearlake; Clovis; Coalinga; Colusa; Concord; Concord; Corcoran; Cottonwood; Cupertino; Daly City; Danville; Davis; Dinuba; Downieville; Dublin; Emeryville; Eureka; Fairfield; Folsom; Fort Bragg; Fortuna; Fremont; French Camp; Fresno; Fresno; Fulton; Garberville; Geyserville; Gilroy; Goodyear; Grass Valley; Guerneville; Half Moon Bay; Hayward; Hinkley; Hollister; Holt; Houston; Huron; Jackson; Kerman; King City; Lakeport; Lemoore; Lincoln; Linden; Livermore; Lodi; Loomis; Los Banos; Lower Lake; Madera; Magalia; Manteca; Manton; Mariposa; Martell; Marysville; Maxwell; Menlo Park; Merced; Meridian; Millbrae; Milpitas; Modesto; Monterey; Montgomery Creek; Morgan Hill; Morro Bay; Moss Landing; Mountain View; Napa; Needles; Newark; Newman; Novato; Oakdale; Oakhurst; Oakley; Olema; Orinda; Orland; Oroville; Palo Alto; Palo Cedro; Paradise; Parkwood; Paso Robles; Petaluma; Pioneer; Pismo Beach; Pittsburg; Placerville; Pleasant Hill; Point Arena; Potter Valley; Quincy; Rancho Cordova; Red Bluff; Redding; Richmond; Ridgecrest; Rio Vista; Rocklin; Roseville; Round Mountain; Sacramento; Salida; Salinas; San Bruno; San Carlos; San Francisco; San Francisco; San Jose; San Luis Obispo; San Mateo; San Rafael; San Ramon; San Ramon; Sanger; Santa Cruz; Santa Maria; Santa Nella; Santa Rosa; Selma; Shaver Lake; Sonoma; Sonora; South San Francisco; Springville; Stockton; Storrie; Taft; Tracy; Turlock; Twain; Ukiah; Vacaville; Vallejo; Walnut Creek; Wasco; Watsonville; West Sacramento; Wheatland; Whitmore; Willits; Willow Creek; Willows; Windsor; Winters; Woodland; Yuba City
Department Overview
Welcome to Electric Asset Management (EAM). We are responsible for electric system asset strategy, standards and procedures and risk management across Transmission, Distribution, and Substation asset families. Within EAM, the Distribution group delivers risk‑informed strategic planning and uses inspection insights and asset data to drive informed maintenance and investment decisions.
The Distribution Asset Risk Management (ARM) team—comprising Asset Failure Analysis (AFA), Asset Insights, and Inspections & Maintenance Strategy (I&M)—focuses on developing and continuously improving how PG&E monitors and maintains its assets to support a resilient, reliable grid and helps keep our communities safe. This Manager role will be responsible for leading the I&M Team.
Position Summary
As a leader in Electric Asset Management, our goal is to ensure our distribution assets deliver safe, reliable, and sustainable energy through strategic asset planning and management. Within this team, the Inspections and Maintenance strategy plays a critical role in optimizing the management of over 2.3 million distribution wood poles and over 80,000 circuit miles of primary conductor. The team oversees the short-term and long-term I&M strategies, as well as advancing continuous improvement to ensure inspection procedures and technology are updated to incorporate insights from technical testing, failure analysis and Subject Matter Expertise input. The successful candidate will interface with various external regulatory entities to provide updates on various I&M programs and commitments.
There are several compelling initiatives in play that will require a competent, passionate, mission-driven leader to navigate the I&M team through development and delivery:
- Megabundling Expansion: We are strategically pivoting to circuit-based inspections, to grow the success seen in our “Megabundling” maintenance tag work. This is projected to increase our “eyes on risk”, while saving hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 5 years.
- Drone based GO165 Certification: In 2026, we will execute an aerial inspection (vs ground) effectiveness pilot, with the intention of approving drone-based data collection to meet criteria required for GO165 detailed inspections.
- Asset Health Monitoring: With the development of innovative new sensors and A.I./LLMs, we are reimagining the traditional maintenance approach, and assessing opportunities to implement additional touchpoints and/or “continuous monitoring” on some of our assets in order to safely extend life, and redeploy resources to more surgically target known risk.
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.
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: $144,000
Bay Area Maximum: $244,000
&/OR
California Minimum: $137,000
California Maximum: $232,000
Job Responsibilities
- Strategically develops and oversees inspection and tag maintenance workplans, for detailed GO165, infrared, and intrusive Pole Test and Treat programs, as well as special projects for emergent issues.
- Supports the development and reporting for the annual Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP) and some General Rate Case (GRC) chapters.
- Report-outs to leaders in EAM in WORs and MORs, and to the Executive Leadership Team (ELT).
- Partners with Regulatory and Compliance staff to ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements and support regulatory activities by supplying information for filings, data requests, and meeting with regulators.
- Develops, owns and/or implements policies, standards, and procedures.
- Develops long term strategy for distribution infrastructure while ensuring it is consistent, developed in concert with stakeholders (e.g. Risk Management, Distribution Compliance), and aligned with company objectives.
- Creates data-based decision support tools to identify sustainability issues and inform asset strategy planning.
- Develops and manages department budgets, regularly monitoring expenses against forecast, providing explanation or justification for budget items and/or variances.
- Oversees the strategy and operations of assigned distribution asset programs. Ensures program work is scheduled, prioritized, completed on time and within budget while monitoring and remaining complaint with all regulatory requirements. Interfaces with key stakeholders as necessary.
- Manages Supervisors and Professional employees.
- Manages staff to accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, rewards, and recognition.
Qualifications
Minimum:
- Bachelors Degree in Engineering or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
- Experience in project life cycle, job-related
- Experience in engineering, job-related, 8 years OR Experience in operations, job-related, 8 years OR Experience in business, job-related, 8 years
Desired:
- Experience in cycle time planning, distribution assets, 15 years
- Masters Degree in job-related discipline or equivalent experience.
- Proven track record of developing data-driven strategies and managing cross-functional teams to deliver large-scale infrastructure projects.
- Demonstrated success in managing teams.
- Working knowledge of Electric Distribution inspections, construction, and/or maintenance.
- Familiarity with CPUC General Orders 95 and 165.