Senior Project Manager
San Ramon, Contra Costa County, California, 94583, USA
Listed on 2026-09-24
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Engineering
Requisition # 170610
Job Category:
Project / Program Management
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Business Unit:
Energy Delivery
Work Type:
Hybrid
Job Location:
San Ramon
Engineering, Planning & Strategy will play a leading role in showing California and the world how PG&E will meet California’s decarbonization and resilience goals while improving safety, affordability and reliability. The Large Load Project Management Team is responsible for delivering complex, high-capacity electric infrastructure projects that support major commercial and industrial customers. These projects often involve multi-phase transmission and distribution upgrades, regulatory compliance, and coordination with internal and external stakeholders to meet customer timelines and strategic commitments.
PositionSummary
This job is represented by Engineers and Scientists of California (ESC) subject to collective bargaining.
This position, under general direction, exercises judgment and discretion and is responsible for all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned projects and provides a single point of contact for those projects. Project duration is generally multi-year, requires significant risk management, and may include formal partnering agreements with outside firms. Assignments will have high visibility, require extensive project management skills and often require specific discipline and areas of expertise, such as:
- Electric transmission substation projects
- Electric transmission line projects
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need.
PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of thejob posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will bebased on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience,market value, geographic location, collective bargaining agreements, 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.
The salary range is:
CA Minimum, $161,520
CA Maximum, $207,504
Job Responsibilities- Provides leadership, coaching, technical direction, and oversight for assigned projects; also provides knowledge transfer and assistance to many technical and/or project management employees and teams.
- Proactively controls the scope, schedule, cost, and quality of a large portfolio of projects throughout the project life cycle.
- Provides extensive knowledge and guidance to others in start-up testing, inspections, and condition assessment; actively supports complex and/or large project start-up tests and field inspections.
- Provides guidance to engineering on producing complex risk and alternative analyses, studies and conceptual designs for presentation to project sponsors and/or leadership.
- Oversees and administrates EPC contracts.
- Negotiates third party contracts, in support of other departments when appropriate.
- Makes presentations to PG&E Officers as appropriate.
- Arbitrates and resolves conflicts within the project.
- Mentors and provides guidance to less experienced project managers.
Minimum:
- Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) from an accredited college*
- 8 years of PG&E (9 years outside) of relevant experience in electric, gas, or power generation operations, engineering, business planning, accounting, finance, construction management, or project management
- Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
* In lieu of a four (4) year degree,…
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