Job Description

Requisition ID # 171096

Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Strategy & Growth

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Auburn; Chico; West Sacramento

The Central Design & Estimating organization is responsible for Engineering, Design and Estimating of PG&E Electric Distribution systems. Candidates will lead engineering and design activities by ensuring standards are followed, adhering to the engineering and work prioritization/approval process, managing and controlling the scope of work, maintaining a focus on accuracy, design criteria and constructability while ensuring customer and regulatory expectations are met or exceeded. Candidate will be responsible for ensuring timely, accurate and quality execution of capital maintenance tags, System Hardening projects and large capacity work within their designated region.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory. The postion will report to one of the following locations: Auburn, Chico, West Sacramento.

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.

Bay Minimum: $155,000
Bay Maximum: $265,000

&/OR

CA Minimum: $147,000
CA Maximum: $252,000

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

Job Responsibilities

• Manages organization, supervisor and employee performance in alignment with new business customer delivery goals and metrics including safety, productivity, quality, and areas of improvement.
• Establishes and maintains effective relationships with union business managers.
• Creates, promotes and manages a safety-first work environment and culture.
• Provides management of engineering and design activities to ensure consistent timely, cost-effective designs, meeting customer service dates by having key interface with Work Management and construction, including contractors.
• Consistently monitor engineering activities to meet service dates.
• Manage technical employees to ensure adherence to company standards, policies and procedures by members of the workgroup, and enforce all applicable company, city, state and federal safety rules and regulations.
• Develop and maintain an environment that fosters a high-performance culture and a learning organization.
• Lead a management team in promoting diversity. Serve as a change agent for business initiatives and assure the human element is understood and considered. Assure timely recognition of employee contributions and develop technical capabilities in the organization.
• Establish, maintain and improve relationships with other departments.
• Establishes production requirements to execute and achieve plan objectives.
• Implements standardized tools, processes, and work products for electric engineering and design work.
• Builds a defined backlog of completed design packages for gas distribution construction work.
• Recruit/select, communicate expectations, foster employee engagement, coach, develop, mentor, recognize and reward employees in order to drive performance and results.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelors Degree in Business Administration or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• 6 years of job-related experience
• 4 years of utility/construction/urban planning experience including experience with service planning, estimating, project management, technical customer service and/or other relevant experience.
• CA Class C License, or equivalent
• Ability to travel up to 20 percent of working time

Desired:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• 3 years of prior supervisory/managerial experience
• Experience managing a geographically dispersed team
• Experience managing bargaining unit employees
• In-depth knowledge of California Public Utility Commission General Orders GO 95, 128 and 165 requirements and bargaining unit contracts.
• Proficient knowledge of electric utility construction, maintenance, resource planning, regulatory compliance, tariffs and safety best practices.