Program Manager, Principal

Requisition ID # 165691 

Job Category: Project / Program Management 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The Central Design & Estimating organization is responsible for Engineering, Design and Estimating of PG&E’s Electric Distribution systems.  Candidates will lead engineering and design activities by ensuring standards are followed, adhering to the engineering and work prioritization/approval process, managing and controlling the scope of work, maintaining a focus on accuracy, design criteria and constructability while ensuring customer and regulatory expectations are met or exceeded.

Candidate will be responsible for overseeing completion of maintenance tags, System Hardening projects, large capacity work, and other types of projects on an as-needed basis. Candidate will also be responsible for leading external electric estimators managed by vendor partners in daily operating reviews, safety trainings and in-person person meetings.  

Position Summary

Manages aspects of program implementation and operations.  Ensures program is operating effectively.  Responsibilities typically include some or most of the following in support of Program Management to ensure attainment of program metrics/objectives.

• Managing relationship with and providing direction to vendor(s).
• Developing and monitoring budgets and forecasts.
• Developing, measuring, and reporting on success of the program by creating and maintaining scorecards to keep track of vendors’ success in areas of safety, delivery, quality, and spending
• Facilitates project calls with vendors, project management, and other key stakeholders to track milestones
• Collaborates closely with Contract Estimating supervisors to ensure a balanced work distribution among all team members
• Identifying and maintaining strong working relationships with all strategic programs and partners and vendors
• Attends Project Management and Director meetings to provide status updates & proactively communicates riks on in-flight projects
• Serves as team liaison on the project design change control review board
• Partnering 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.
• Developing and/or implementing policies and procedures.
• Identifying new partners, technologies, and delivery channels. 

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned location based on business need. The hybrid classification can be subject to change.

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.

Bay Minimum: $140,000

Bay Maximum: $238,000

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

Job Responsibilities

•  Provides management of engineering and design activities to ensure consistent timely, cost-effective designs, meeting customer service dates by having key interface with Work Management and construction, including contractors.
• Consistently monitor engineering activities to meet service dates.
• Manage estimating vendors and employees to ensure adherence to company standards, policies and procedures by members of the workgroup, and enforce all applicable company, city, state and federal safety rules and regulations
• Recognized subject matter expert who represents PG&E in regulatory and/or industry forums on subject of expertise.
• May manage major cross-functional projects and initiatives.  
• Coaches and mentors less experienced employees and serves as a leader in the Central Design & Estimating Contract Estimating group
• Solves unique and complex problems, anticipating issues and developing innovative solutions.
• Demonstrates strategic leadership with internal stakeholders to support Company goals.
• Leads development of program goals and metrics to meet company goals and objectives.  Collaborates across organization to ensure alignment of goals to support program.  
• Responsible for utilizing other departments and teams to meet program goals.  
• Organize and lead cross-utility project teams to influence utility, regulatory and/or industry decisions.
• Leads large statewide energy efficiency programs or efforts on behalf of PG&E to resolve issues and conflicts or to educate other parties. 
• Develops or provides significant input to PG&E leadership, other utilities with similar programs, industry and/or regulatory decision makers to influence marketplace and regulatory strategies impacting PG&E and its customers. 

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
• Job-related experience, 10 years

Desired:

• Masters Degree in job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• PMI-Project Management Institute PMP-Project Management Professional certification
• Advanced qualitative and quantitative data analysis skills, knowledgeable in collecting data, organizing, synthesizing, reporting, recognizing trending and anomalies, drawing conclusions, and developing recommendations.
• Ability to build dashboards using various tools such as Power BI and Tableau
• Ability to travel approximately 10% of the time with occasional overnight stays
• Ability to use understanding of the business to help drive strategic decision making, and to recommend operational improvements
• Ability to lead the largest most complex projects across the line of business supported (i.e. Customer Care, Human Resources, etc.)
• Deep knowledge and expertise of business and or industry drivers
• Ability to lead large and complex projects working with cross-functional teams 
• Ability to create compelling business cases based on complex business environments and inputs
• Adept at addressing issues with diplomacy and tact