Principal, Electric Program Manager - Reliability

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Oakland, CA, US, 94612

Requisition # 175336

Job Category:
Project / Program Management

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit:
Energy Delivery

Work Type:
Hybrid

Job Location:

Oakland

Department Overview

The System Performance, Reliability and Resiliency Strategy team, part of Electric Transmission and Distribution Engineering, leads the planning and coordination needed to advance PG&E’s electric reliability strategy. The team brings together forward-looking programs, technology, and infrastructure investments to modernize the grid and support safe, resilient, efficient operations.

Position Summary

• Translates distribution capacity, reliability, distributed energy resource integration, and capital investment priorities into coordinated program plans, milestones, and deliverables.
• Develops program goals, performance measures, dashboards, and reporting that provide leadership with timely visibility into progress, risks, costs, and decisions.
• Coordinates across engineering, operations, regulatory, finance, vendors, and other stakeholder groups to manage dependencies, facilitate decisions, and resolve delivery barriers.
• Evaluates process, technology, and delivery gaps and implements improvements that streamline planning work, strengthen controls, and increase program effectiveness.
• Supports program governance, budget and forecast development, documentation, and operating practices needed for consistent execution.

This is a hybrid position, with work performed from a remote office and an assigned PG&E location based on business needs. The assigned work location will be within the Bay Area portion of PG&E’s service territory.

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, collective bargaining agreements, and internal equity.

Although we estimate that 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, taking into account these factors. This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

A reasonable salary range is:
Bay Area Minimum: $144,000
Bay Area Mid-Point: $194,000
Bay Area Maximum: $244,000
&/OR
California Minimum: $133,000
California Mid-Point: $180,000
California Maximum: $226,000

Job Responsibilities

• Supports the development and execution of short- and long-range distribution capacity and reliability strategies, including investment plans and supporting materials for the General Rate Case and other regulatory proceedings.
• Manages program implementation and ongoing operations for distribution substations, line capacity, reliability improvements, distributed generation, and other grid modernization initiatives, coordinating scope, schedule, cost, risks, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Establishes implementation plans, operating practices, policies, and procedures that support consistent execution, effective controls, and achievement of program objectives.
• Develops program measures and reporting, monitors capacity, reliability, financial, operational, and delivery performance, and recommends corrective actions based on trends, exceptions, and results.
• Develops and monitors budgets and forecasts, tracks expenditures against approved plans, and prepares variance explanations, investment…