Principal Consultant, Electric Compliance Strategic Initiatives - Location Flexible
Requisition ID # 172684
Job Category: Compliance / Risk / Quality Assurance
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; 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 Summary:
The Electric Risk & Compliance organization provides governance, oversight, and strategic direction on risk and compliance matters across Electric Operations, ensuring alignment with enterprise policies and external/internal regulatory requirements. It partners cross-functionally to manage compliance requirements, strengthen controls, and enable risk-based oversight through effective monitoring, data, and reporting. The Compliance Insights team provides strategic, comprehensive data analysis, reporting, and data-driven insights that support Electric compliance, investigations, and risk management.
Position Summary: As a Principal Compliance & Risk Consultant on the Compliance Controls team in the Electric Risk and Compliance insights organization, you will work across the Electric organization to identify, document, and test key compliance controls, including developing controls test plans. You will evaluate and provide insight on control deficiencies to determine potential impact to Electric. You will pressure-test and refine compliance solutions and present test findings and make controls enhancement recommendations to functional management once design and operating effectiveness testing is complete. You will help strengthen Electric’s Compliance program by guiding program development, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
The role applies compliance, risk, and quality expertise to advance capabilities against PG&E’s Compliance Maturity Model and align program design with recognized standards for effective compliance and ethics programs, including the U.S. Department of Justice Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
You will also provide strategic and tactical guidance on enhancing the development, implementation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of various foundational elements within PG&E’s compliance program framework. You will apply deep technical knowledge of compliance, risk management, and quality assurance to ensure consistent interpretation and application of compliance program maturity standards across Electric Compliance sub-functions and key partner teams. You ensure compliance isn't just followed but is embedded in how PG&E operates in an evolving energy landscape.
The selected candidate must live within PG&E’s service territory, and will be required to work in the office 2-3 days a week.
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:
Minimum Base Salary (Bay Area) $136,000.00
Mid Base Salary (Bay Area) $184,000.00
Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area) $232,000.00
Minimum Base Salary (California) $129,000.00
Mid Base Salary (California) $175,000.00
Maximum Base Salary (California) $220,000.00
Responsibilities
- Drive Cross-Functional Execution:
- Lead enterprise-wide initiatives that advance compliance program maturity, reduce risk exposure, and embed compliance into operational routines.
- Identify and analyze emerging challenges and opportunities, assessing business impact and offering solutions.
- Develop recommendations on how PG&E can position itself to take advantage of opportunities and proactively adjust and prepare for challenges, mitigating risks.
- Accelerate Compliance Adoption: Champion adoption of strategic compliance initiatives across lines of business through thoughtful change leadership and stakeholder engagement.
- Shape Executive Communications: Develop and deliver impactful compliance communications for executive forums, translating complexity into clarity for senior leaders.
- Establish Best Practices: Create and sustain a comprehensive library of compliance best practices through benchmarking, external engagement, and cross-industry collaboration.
- Align Regulatory Partners: Collaborate with Legal, Regulatory Affairs, Engineering, Asset Strategy, and Operations to ensure cohesive interpretation and application of regulatory requirements.
- Communicate with Clarity & Authority: Engage confidently with senior leaders and stakeholders, translating complex reporting requirements into clear and digestible actions and communications.
- Elevate Quality Systems: Lead development and continuous improvement of the Compliance Quality Management System (QMS) to drive consistency, accountability, and performance. Develops, monitors, analyzes, and reports on signposts that may affect the Company’s ability to meet its goal.
Qualifications
Minimum:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
- 10 years of relevant work experience
Desired:
- Master’s degree in engineering, economics, business administration or job-related field
- Electrical engineer with experience in the utility industry to support technical interpretations and implementation of new compliance requirements.
- Professional Engineer (P.E.)
- Direct experience in utility compliance, operations or related programs
- Prior involvement with regulatory audits, inspections, or filings
- Advanced knowledge of California and federal regulatory requirements and electric utility compliance practices
- Deep knowledge of utility regulatory frameworks (e.g., CPUC, FERC, NERC, WECC) and how they inform enterprise compliance strategy
- Proven ability to design and lead implementation of compliance governance models that drive operational alignment and accountability
- Strong understanding of utility operations and asset management, with the ability to translate regulatory expectations into field-executable strategy
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional, high-impact initiatives through risk-based planning, change leadership, and strategic execution
- Executive communication skills and presence, with experience delivering high-impact presentations and updates to senior leadership and external stakeholders
- Ability to align compliance strategy with enterprise goals, influencing direction across functions through collaboration, insight, and strategic clarity
- Proficiency in compliance systems, reporting tools, and analytics platforms (e.g., GRC, SAP, Power BI) to support insight-driven decision-making
- Direct experience in utility compliance, operations or related programs
- Ability to influence others to achieve understanding, acceptance, and commitment to act
- Highly flexible, self-directed, and able to adapt well to a rapidly changing environment