Sr. Manager, FERC investigations

Department Overview

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 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 seeking an experienced business professional to lead the new Electric Compliance Assurance Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Team. The team is responsible to increasing our compliance maturity as it relates to FERC within electric operations.

As the Senior Manager of Electric Compliance Assurance FERC, you will stand up, or continue to stand up, and oversee this new team. With deep technical, regulatory, and operational expertise, you bring a structured approach to provide oversight of functional area compliance maturity for FERC. Tasks of this team may include some of the following, or similar tasks:

• Validating policy implications pertaining to FERC and Electric Delivery
• Partnering with
  
  Functional Area
  
  Compliance Teams on risk mitigation strategies impacting FERC compliance
• Investigating potential self-reports to FERC Office of Enforcement
• Developing Investigation Forms for FERC Compliance
• Prepare and respond to FERC data requests

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.

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.

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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 Investigations

• Direct holistic multi-year strategy for risk strategies, models and methodologies.
• Stand up new Electric Compliance Assurance FERC team and transition to steady-state.
• Ensure framework for implementing tools and processes to improve quality and timeliness of reports/deliverables.
• Determine 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.
• Develop/refine scope and process of team, including how to prioritize scope.
• Manage team to investigate areas of interest for FERC Compliance, which may include working with PG&E's Legal team.
• Perform technical review of investigation reports of varying risk. Manage team to prepare Apparent Cause Evaluations (ACEs), Workgroup Evaluations (WGEs), or similar, including identifying corrective actions and gaining consensus with senior leadership to mitigate risk.
• Manage team to identify and summarize compliance risk concerns, including…