Principal Regulatory Analyst - Oakland or Sacramento (Electrical Engineer and FERC exp preferred)

Requisition ID # 167644 

Job Category: Government and Regulatory Relations 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland; Sacramento

Summary:

Position headquartered in Oakland or Sacramento California.

As an Electric Regulatory Analyst, Principal, you are responsible for developing regulatory strategy that advances the implementation of new and changing Electric requirements ensuring operational readiness for the company. Regulatory Analysts also provide leadership insight to the company’s stances on NERC standards, may interface with regulators, participate as an expert with industry trade associations, and lead benchmarking efforts. Regulatory analysts have a strong working knowledge of utility operations and/or utility engineering as leaders of technical cross functional compliance requirement implementation teams.

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, 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): $140,000     
• Mid Base Salary (Bay Area: $189,000
• Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area): $238,000

Responsibilities:

• Lead cross-functional teams to translate new and changing regulatory obligations into actionable work processes, ensuring compliance integration into day-to-day operations.
• Develops, facilitates, and strengthens relationships with stakeholders and industry experts to proactively advance the Company's operational readiness with regard to new and changing compliance requirements and to perform routine benchmarking.
• Participates in policy scanning and implementation efforts to ensure PG&E remains ahead of emerging mandates from agencies such as CPUC, OEIS, FERC, NERC, WECC, and CAISO.
• Leads the identification, development, implementation, resolution of complex policy/issues (state and federal with significant customer or financial impact) and internal company stakeholders. 
• Performs complex policy, regulatory and strategic analysis for issues that may have a short or long-term impact or affect multiple lines of business.
• Assimilates large volumes of information and distills into actionable deliverables driving compliance maturity.
• Informs director and senior management regarding regulatory developments including meeting outcomes, proposed regulations, and timing of key regulatory decisions.
•  Regularly interfaces with industry contacts for benchmarking. Attends conferences and seminars to keep abreast of best practices and industry developments.
• Represents PG&E at external industry associations, committees, trade organizations, and other engagements.
• Regularly interfaces with industry contacts for benchmarking and analyzes output for actionable steps to mature risk and compliance operations.
• Represents the Company in public forums as a subject matter expert by providing clear and persuasive positions on regulatory issues and company strategies.
• Monitors responses to applications/filings, testimony, and work papers for regulatory proceedings before state and federal regulatory agencies.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, public policy, finance, engineering or related discipline or equivalent utility industry experience

•    Eight years of relevant work experience

Desired:

• Electrical engineer with experience in the utility industry to support technical interpretations with heavy emphasis on implementation of new compliance requirements in collaboration with operational and engineering teams.
• Master’s degree or equivalent experience
• Electric industry experience.
• FERC utility policy experience or utility operational experience.
• Understanding of distribution and/or transmission operations, systems, and standards.
• Experience in leadership or leading cross functional teams
• Ability to synthesize and distill highly complex data and findings to present in verbal and/or written format to diverse audiences.
• Advanced collaboration and interpersonal skills to effectively build relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills to lead industry benchmarking sessions and analysis.
• Ability to employ extensive subject matter expertise to anticipate and resolve complex issues with minimal information or supervision of a manager or director.
• Ability to analyze complex problems and make decisions despite incomplete information and limited time.
• Provides direction, training, guidance, and instruction to regulatory analysts in a work environment that fosters teamwork, information and experience sharing, constructive communication and professional and individual development.
• Acts as a thought leader applying extensive data analysis expertise in the development of strategy or resolution to complex requirement implementation.
• Utilizes technical knowledge to create tactical implementation plans to lead teams.
• Regulatory, analytical, communications or public affairs related position.