Requisition ID # 148148
Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations
Job Level: Manager/Principal
Business Unit: Electric Engineering
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Oakland
Department Overview
The Coworkers of Electric Operations ensure the delivery of clean, safe, reliable, and affordable energy to nearly 16 million people in Northern and Central California. Electric Operations is responsible for every aspect of PG&E’s electric distribution and transmission operations, including planning, engineering, maintenance and construction, asset management, business planning, restoration, and emergency response.
Position Summary
This position is responsible for developing and enabling a comprehensive and effective maintenance strategy for the transmission line asset family. The strategy would consider the condition of assets (age, type, etc.), design, failure modes, means of predicting and preventing failures, and prioritized by relative risks and consequences of failures. Responsibility would include the development and implements of the asset management framework with feedback from various stakeholders across the lines of business. Also responsible for critical assessment to tie the maintenance strategy and risk reduction effectiveness.
This position would lead the development of testimony for rate cases, pertaining to maintenance strategy as related to the overarching Asset Management Plan. Contributes toward Electric Safety Excellence goals by improving safety, reliability, and affordability for transmission line asset families.
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:
Annual Minimum: $140,000.00
Annual Maximum: $238,000.00
Job Responsibilities
- Leads the development of effective asset inspection and maintenance strategy with alignment to overall asset strategy
- Develops and applies a deeper understanding of the ability various inspection and maintenance practices in preventing in-service asset failures
- Develops and updates inspection and maintenance requirements of transmission line assets to ensure effectiveness at the right costs.
- Ensures alignment of inspection and maintenance program with asset expense investments
- Provides regulatory testimony associated inspection and maintenance strategy.
- Acts as main liaison on risk management with maintenance strategy to internal (standards, maintenance execution, regulatory teams) and external stakeholders (CPUC, FERC, CAISO, etc.)
- Develops, implements, and monitors appropriate asset family risk mitigation activities and maintenance controls.
- Coordinates with other asset family owners and SME and understands integration of all asset management maintenance plans
- Supports investment planning in risk-based prioritization assessments, ensuring high level of alignment in methodologies and assessments
- Contributes to the development of best practices in risk and asset management
- Develops and coordinates the preparation of presentation materials for senior management.
- Leads and/or coordinates rate case testimony for maintenance strategy
Leadership:
- Provides technical leadership to a stakeholder team to drive an effective inspection and maintenance program.
- Develops, documents, updates, and maintains maintenance strategy requirements, process and procedures Provide technical guidance to failure analysis, technology evaluation, replacements criteria, etc.
- Coordinate with execution team to ensure effective execution and cost efficiency.
- Develop inspection and maintenance record requirements to optimize asset decisions
- Provide guidance and solicit feedback from maintenance and operations stakeholders.
- Effectively communicates highly complex ideas to diverse audiences.
Qualifications
Minimum:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Ten (10) years of utility or other related experience
Desired:
- Bachelors Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of risk analysis and assessment
- Knowledge of Electric Operations business and associated assets
- Strong communication skills both verbal and in writing
- Ability to integrate various streams of information into a cohesive plan
- Ability to work independently and across multiple functions, work collaboratively to build strong working relationships
- Ability to facilitate decision-making
- Ability to synthesize complex issues into easy-to-understand concepts
- Ability to influence varying levels of leadership and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities to completion.
- Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information.
- Ability to engage appropriate Subject Matter Experts (SME) and key stakeholders
Purpose, Virtues and Stands
Our Purpose explains “why” we exist:
- Delivering for our hometowns
- Serving our planet
- Leading with love
Our Virtues capture “who” we need to be:
- Trustworthy
- Empathetic
- Curious
- Tenacious
- Nimble
- Owners
Our Stands are “what” we will achieve together:
- Everyone and everything is always safe
- Catastrophic wildfires shall stop
- It is enjoyable to work with and for PG&E
- A healthy environment and carbon-neutral energy system shall be the reality for all Californians
- Our work shall create prosperity for all customers and investors
More About Our Company
EEO
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is an Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity employer that actively pursues and hires a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability status, medical condition, protected veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other factor that is not related to the job.
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