Compliance Controls Validation, Manager

Requisition # 169224

Job Category:
Government and Regulatory Relations

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit:
Electric Engineering

Work Type:
Hybrid

Job Location:

Oakland

The Electric Compliance Assurance department is part of the Electric Risk & Compliance organization, where together we will embed compliance and risk in all that we do and achieve regulatory outcomes that support the business’ needs. The work of this department is critical in our efforts to find compliance challenges and identify areas of risk so that we can fix them.

The main functions of this new department are identifying areas of compliance risk and opportunities to mitigate those risks, including through incident reporting and investigations, overseeing Electric Operations and Power Generation CAP, and validating the controls on the organization.

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) $
Mid Base Salary (Bay Area) $
Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area) $

PG&E is seeking an experienced business professional to lead the Electric Compliance Controls Validation Team. The Controls Validation Team is responsible to develop quality management plans for process improvements to assure compliance quality control measures are implemented and effective.

As the Manager of Compliance Controls Validation, you will stand up, or continue to stand up, and oversee this new team responsible to validate compliance controls tied to electric processes. With deep technical, regulatory, and operational expertise, you bring a structured approach to developing/refining the process and leading the team to identify external regulatory requirements, benchmark internally and externally, validate process controls, and summarize findings.

Your work strengthens PG&E’s safety culture and compliance posture and reinforces PG&E’s commitment that Everyone and Everything is Always Safe, advancing enterprise learning, transparency, and continuous improvement across investigations.

Location of this position is flexible within PG&E service territory and will require occasional travel to other areas around PG&E’s service territory. This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and assigned office based on business needs.

This position reports to the Director, Electric Compliance Assurance

• Develop/refine process to determine and prioritize processes to evaluate regulatory controls.
• Develop/refine the process and lead the team to identify external regulatory requirements, benchmark internally and externally, validate process controls, and summarize findings.
• Manage team to investigate process controls of medium to high risk to PG&E, may include working with PG&Es Legal team. Prepare and present summary of findings and risk to PG&E to senior and executive leaders.
• Stand up new compliance control validation team and transition to steady‑state.
• Determines most effective department metrics to measure performance against annual or longer‑term goals and objectives for time bound projects or ongoing operational work. Regularly presents department scorecard to senior management and adjusts based on business needs.
• Responsible for the regulatory compliance of the department’s programs. Work with regulators and other internal LOBs to ensure department meets regulatory rule changes, updating supporting processes as appropriate.
• Effectively maneuver through complex organizational situations without disruption, routinely resolving escalations to…