Job Abstract

Requisition ID # 157346 

Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations 

Job Level: Senior Director

Business Unit: Electric Operations

Work Type:

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

T&S responsible for the maintenance and construction of the Electric Transmission system, Project and Construction, Generation Interconnections, Work and Resource Management, Compliance and Temporary Generation departments.   The Coworkers of Electric Transmission and Substation Operations ensure the delivery of safe and reliable electric service to our customers.  T-Line M&C executes highest-risk maintenance and construction activities to improve public safety and operation of the grid.  

Position Summary

The Sr. Director, T-Line Operations is responsible for leading all operational aspects of T-Line including system inspection, maintenance, and construction for large capital projects and ongoing expense work. The incumbent leads the T-Line department to work closely with Enterprise Health and Safety, Planning and Strategy, Standards and Work Methods, Engineering, Asset Management and other support functions to ensure safe and even-free operations of our transmission system and deliver on our stand of “everyone and everything is always safe”

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. There is an expectation of 40% travel doing “go-sees” which are field visits to jobsites and yards.  The assigned work location will be within the PG&E 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, 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:

Bay Area Minimum: $205,000

Bay Area Maximum: $349,000

Reporting Relationship

This position reports to the Vice President, Transmission and Substation Operations.

Job Responsibilities

Strategic Planning and Leadership

• Razor sharp focus on Safety Excellence and creates a safety speak-up culture.

• Provides leadership in developing and implementing short and long-term strategies within the areas of T-Line reliability, execution, safety, and emergency response while ensuring the department meets all legal and regulatory compliance requirements for each area of responsibility.
• Coordinates with the Regional Service Model and leads a team of directors to ensure clear expectations are set for performance expectations and timely and meaningful feedback is provided by leaders in the organization.
• Works with Human Resources and others as needed, ensuring ongoing performance of direct reports is maintained at a high standard and continually improved.  Coaches and develops employees.  Leads workforce strategy and succession planning.
• Routinely interacts with other business partners and develops extensive working relationships across all lines of business, to ensure overall business needs are being met. Proactively brings ideas, solutions, and alternatives to business partners for technical issues and challenges. Proactively solicits feedback from business partners on services.
• Attends external engagements to build on utility best practices such as conferences, tradeshows, partner IOU field visits, participate in panel discussions, host events, speak as a keynote, etc.
• Executes on the 5 Lean Plays from the Lean Playbook for the T-Line organization identifying waste elimination opportunities, facilitates problem solving, leads operating reviews, creates visual management, promotes an environment of continuous improvement.

• Ensures substantial plans are in place for the following:
  • Ongoing performance improvement of T-line system reliability, improving outage duration and frequency and overall electric system, public, and employee safety. Monitoring the quality of completed work, ensuring ongoing compliance with regulatory requirements, including completed construction projects, completed facilities maintenance and documentation of completed work.
  • Providing timely and well executed emergency response for localized and system-wide electrical events. Plans are drilled periodically, maintaining an ongoing state of readiness.

Resource Management:

• Works with peer groups in Transmission and Substation Operations to ensure resources are adequately identified and mobilized to efficiently execute the annual work plan; this includes internal PG&E and contractor workforces as needed.
• Works with Asset Management and others as needed to ensure annual budgets are identified to accurately construct and maintain the T-Lines
• Manages annual budgets of approximately $600 – 800 million in capital and expense projects. Develops financial and staffing plans for each function of the department. Ensures appropriate levels of talent acquisition and that appropriate training and development are integrated in the work of the organization. Ensures execution of annual maintenance and construction work on time and on budget.
• Provides ultimate accountability for ensuring that the department safety programs and improvement plans are well designed and executed; leads organization to Best in Class Safety Behavior.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Recruit/select, communicate expectations, foster employee engagement, coach, develop, mentor, recognize and reward employees in order to drive performance and results. Manages Director, Sr. Manager, Manager, Supervisor, Professional, Support, Union employees. Approximately 600 staff.
• Travel approximately 40% in the field with occasional overnight stays.

Leadership Qualities

PG&E expects its leaders to conduct themselves with the highest ethics and integrity and to embody specific leadership qualities.

Strategic Mindset

• Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.

A Leader in the Community and Industry

• Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
• Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Demonstrates Safety Leadership

• A safety champion in words and deeds with respect to both employee and public safety.
• Maintaining an environment of open dialog and free of retaliation.

Influences and Inspires

• Using various- communications that convey a clear understanding of the needs of different audiences.
• Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related dynamics.

Optimizes Team Performance

• Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
• Creating a climate where people are developed and motivated to do their best to help the organization.

Values Diversity and Creates Inclusion

• Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Fiscally Responsible

• Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.
• Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.

Leads Ethically and in a Compliant Manner

• Sponsoring and sustaining a high integrity speak-up corporate culture which prioritizes ethics, safety and compliance.
• Building on necessary level of industry, company and subject-matter expertise, including laws and regulations.

Provides a High Level of Customer Service

• Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

Background Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 10 years of experience in utility operations including some management experience.

Desired

• 10 years of experience in transmission operations, including some management experience.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Safety: Ability to create, promote and manage a safe work environment
• Budget/Expenses: Has knowledge and skills to develop and manage dept. budgets, expenses, variances. Serves as key budget resource and guide to others.
• Communication: Has skills to support and communicate company and organization policies, procedures, goals, objectives, vision and values
• Strategy: Has knowledge and skills to develop and implement short, medium and long-term strategy in support of company and organizational objectives
• Work Planning: Ability to provide oversight for and implement significant corporate programs, policies and initiatives.
• Operations Management: Has knowledge and skills to implement and provide oversight of operations plans in support of company and LOB strategy.
• Relationship Management: Has skills to develop working relationships with customers & business partners ensuring that work plans and operations are coordinated, aligned and support department and company goals and objectives; ability to persuade higher levels of leaders and leadership peers to change positions or approach based on situational need.
• Continuous Improvement: Ability to proactively recognize, plan and act on the need for innovation and improvement, helps groups and organizations to overcome resistance to change and uses benchmarking and best practices knowledge to set expectations and targets. Has change management knowledge, skills and abilities. Leadership Presence: Ability to exhibit comfort in interacting with senior executives. Ability to convey credibility, confidence and sense of authority. Conveys messages simply, concisely and at right pace and tone for audience. Remains calm, controlled and productive when confronted by opposition or work stress.
• Functional Expertise: Ability to foster a learning environment and to develop employees to ensure backfills and successors. Has an understanding of PG&E’s business to maximize results, limit risks and effectively lead group.
• Knowledge of California and Federal regulatory requirementssuch as Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC),Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), and California Independent System Operator (CAISO)