Program Manager, Expert

Requisition ID # 175658

Job Category: Project / Program Management

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Energy Delivery

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: San Jose; Alameda; Alta; American Canyon; Angels Camp; Antioch; Auberry; Auburn; Avenal; Avila Beach; Bakersfield; Balch Camp; Bay Point; Bear Valley; Belden; Bellota; Belmont; Benicia; Berkeley; Brentwood; Brisbane; Buellton; Burney; Buttonwillow; Calistoga; Campbell; Canyon Dam; Canyondam; Capitola; Caruthers; Chico; Clearlake; Clovis; Coalinga; Colusa; Concord; Concord; Corcoran; Cotati; Cottonwood; Cupertino; Daly City; Danville; Davis; Dinuba; Downieville; Dublin; Emeryville; Eureka; Fairfield; Folsom; Fort Bragg; Fortuna; Fremont; French Camp; Fresno; Fresno; Fulton; Garberville; Geyserville; Gilroy; Goodyear; Grass Valley; Guerneville; Half Moon Bay; Hayward; Hinkley; Hollister; Holt; Houston; Huron; Jackson; Kerman; King City; Lakeport; Lemoore; Lincoln; Linden; Livermore; Lodi; Loomis; Los Banos; Lower Lake; Madera; Magalia; Manteca; Manton; Mariposa; Martell; Marysville; Maxwell; Menlo Park; Merced; Meridian; Millbrae; Milpitas; Modesto; Monterey; Montgomery Creek; Morgan Hill; Morro Bay; Moss Landing; Mountain View; Napa; Needles; Newark; Newman; Novato; Oakdale; Oakhurst; Oakland; Oakley; Olema; Olivehurst; Orinda; Orland; Oroville; Palo Alto; Palo Cedro; Paradise; Parkwood; Paso Robles; Petaluma; Pioneer; Pismo Beach; Pittsburg; Placerville; Pleasant Hill; Pleasanton; Point Arena; Potter Valley; Quincy; Rancho Cordova; Red Bluff; Redding; Richmond; Ridgecrest; Rio Vista; Rocklin; Roseville; Round Mountain; Sacramento; Salida; Salinas; San Bruno; San Carlos; San Francisco; San Francisco; San Luis Obispo; San Mateo; San Rafael; San Ramon; San Ramon; Sanger; Santa Cruz; Santa Maria; Santa Nella; Santa Rosa; Selma; Shaver Lake; Sonoma; Sonora; South San Francisco; Springville; Stockton; Storrie; Taft; Tracy; Turlock; Twain; Ukiah; Vacaville; Vallejo; Walnut Creek; Wasco; Watsonville; West Sacramento; Wheatland; Whitmore; Willits; Willow Creek; Willows; Windsor; Winters; Woodland; Yuba City

Department Overview

The Electric Safety Excellence department provides safety program and project management for Electric Transmission and Distribution (ET&D). We partner with Operations Safety, Electric Leadership, stakeholders, and sister-functional areas to provide strategic guidance and safety program/project management to improve our safety culture and performance through waste & risk reduction, collaboration, and interdependence.

Position Summary

Manages aspects of program development, implementation, and operations, focused on developing and implementing emerging safety programs. Oversees administration of projects requiring advanced organizational skills, critical thinking skills, a background in project management, ET&D, WEO, Lean Implementation and safety. Collaborate with various Project Managers, Electric Functional Division leaders, key stakeholders, Ops Safety partners, and applicable subject matter experts (SMEs).

Supports Electric Safety Excellence by:

- Developing, measuring and reporting on success of programs managed

- Identifying and maintaining strong working relationships with all strategic programs and partners

- Identifying stakeholders and communicate within and outside of PG&E

- Developing and/or implementing policies and procedures

- Identifying new partners, technologies, and delivery channels

- Recognized subject matter expert providing guidance and counsel to Electric leadership on subject of expertise

- Coaches and mentors less experienced employees

- Solves unique and complex problems, anticipating issues and developing innovative solutions

- Demonstrates strategic leadership with internal stakeholders to support Electric and company goals

- Leads development of program goals and metrics to meet Electric and company goals and objectives

- Collaborates across the organization to ensure alignment of goals to support the program

- Responsible for utilizing other departments and teams to meet program goals

- Organizes and leads project teams to influence safety program direction and decisions

- Develops or provides significant input to PG&E leadership

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. Onsite approximately 2 days per week.

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: $129,000
Bay Maximum: $207,000

&/OR

CA Minimum: $123,000
CA Maximum: $197,000

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

Job Responsibilities

- Applies broad expertise and advanced knowledge to wide-ranging issues.

- May act as a team lead and provide direction to less experienced employees.

- Works with Directors and Managers across functions to influence decisions.

- Communicate complex ideas to diverse audiences using a variety of media.

- Integrates industry knowledge related to data into everyday business practices and decision making.

- Creates new and complex data models to facilitate business decisions.

- Provides direction on overall program.

- Develops new or revises existing scopes of work to ensure compliance standards and deliverables are established.

- Solves unique and complex problems, anticipating issues and developing innovative solutions

- Demonstrates strategic leadership with internal stakeholders to support EO and company goals

- Leads development of program goals and metrics to meet EO and company goals and objectives

- Collaborates across the organization to ensure alignment of goals to support the program

- Responsible for utilizing other departments and teams to meet program goals

- Organizes and leads project teams to influence safety program direction and decisions

- Develops or provides significant input to PG&E leadership

Qualifications

Minimum:

- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience

- Job-related experience, 8 years

Desired:

- Master’s Degree in job-related discipline

- PMI-Project Management Institute PMP-Project Management Professional certification

- Two years professional experience in Safety

- 10 years of related experience or equivalent

- Ability to use understanding of the business to help drive strategic decision making, and to recommend operational improvements

- Ability to lead the largest most complex projects across the Electric line of business.

- Deep knowledge and expertise of business and or industry drivers

- Ability to lead large and complex projects working with cross-functional teams

- Ability to create compelling business cases based on complex business environments and inputs

- Adept at addressing issues with diplomacy and tact

- Experience working with vendors and supply chain

- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification

- American Society of Quality Certification (Quality Engineer, Quality Auditor, or CMQ-OE)

- Strong analytical problem solving and decision-making ability

- Strong Communication and Presentation Skills