Principal, Distribution Program Analytics

Requisition ID # 158576

Job Category: Project / Program Management

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Electric Operations

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland; Alameda; Antioch; Belmont; Benicia; Berkeley; Brentwood; Brisbane; Campbell; Capitola; Concord; Concord; Daly City; Danville; Davis; Dublin; Emeryville; Eureka; Fairfield; Folsom; Fremont; Gilroy; Guerneville; Half Moon Bay; Hayward; Livermore; Menlo Park; Millbrae; Milpitas; Monterey; Morgan Hill; Moss Landing; Mountain View; Napa; Newark; Novato; Oakley; Orinda; Palo Alto; Petaluma; Pittsburg; Pleasant Hill; Richmond; Sacramento; Salinas; San Bruno; San Carlos; San Francisco; San Francisco; San Jose; San Mateo; San Rafael; San Ramon; San Ramon; Santa Cruz; Santa Rosa; Sonoma; South San Francisco; Vacaville; Vallejo; Walnut Creek; Watsonville; Windsor

Department Overview

Electric Operations is responsible for every aspect of PG&E's electric distribution and transmission operations and maintenance, as well as Power Generation operations. The Team manages over 100,000 circuit miles of electric distribution lines and over 18,000 circuit miles of interconnected transmission lines, and operates and maintains PG&E's hydroelectric, fossil, solar generation, and battery storage facilities, providing approximately 5,300 megawatts of generating capacity for customers. Electric Operations is comprised of approximately 6,500 coworkers.

Position Summary

The Work Readiness & Integration team works closely with partners across Projects & Construction (P&C) and the broader Electric Operations (EO) group to coordinate metric development, analytics, and monitor and provide visibility on P&C performance. Activities include developing and refreshing Data Visualizations within Power BI, conducting analysis and deep dives on variances, unit and cost forecasts, and operational trends. The position will support the management of the Weekly Operating Reviews as well as Monthly Operating Reviews for the Electric Distribution leadership team, using lean methodologies and principals and may lead cross-functional and continuous improvement initiatives. This position creates tools to analyze operational, productivity and efficiency metrics and scorecards that will help recommend operational improvements and potential mitigations.

The successful candidate will design, develop, and execute models and processes, using structured and unstructured data from disparate sources and sizes, generating actionable insights for strategy and policy development, process improvement, and product enhancement. The position may work on technical development phases: data engineering, analytics/modeling, and visualization/user interface while interacting with technical and non-technical clients to resolve analysis and technical issues.

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.

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: $140,000

Bay Area Midpoint: $189,000

Bay Area Maximum: $238,000

Job Responsibilities

• Leads cross-functional teams to support the lean maturity of the organization with development of metrics, balanced scorecards, dashboards, and trend performance analytics for use at various Weekly Operating Reviews

• Leads materials development for Weekly Operating Reviews for Electric Distribution, coordinating with stakeholders on action items and deliverables. Leads visual management weekly setup of Electric Distribution Delivery WOR in Dublin.

• Supports development of Catchback Plans using Lean guideposts, partnering with leaders cross-functionally to understand variance drivers and plans to deliver on key targets successfully

• Partners with all levels across EO to gather, analyze and monitor operational results and develop variance explanations; presents results and recommendations on operational performance, efficiency, and productivity scorecard metrics to Electric Distribution (ED) leadership. Provides insights into operational results and strategic advice to leaders as needed.

• Conducts gaps/needs assessments, capacity analysis, and benchmark comparisons to recommend and implement improvements, problem solving and corrective actions

• Provides ad-hoc in-depth analysis on complex issues to provide recommendations on solutions and comprehensive change management to implement those solutions

• Serves as mentor to less senior Analysts and provides short-term relief for Senior Manager

• Collaborates with and provides analytical support Program Managers to forecast year-end results based on current trends, provides analytic support for weekly stakeholder meetings to drive work execution pipeline

• Manages development of quantitative models and tools.

• Develops new or revises complex models to predict business demand trends, and volume and expenditures forecasts.

• Presents findings and makes recommendations to high level leaders.

• Performs analysis on complex data models requiring customized reports and data and presents recommendations.

• Oversees resolution of moderately complex projects and programs.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
• 10 years of related experience or equivalent

Desired:

• Masters Degree in job-related discipline or equivalent experience

• Strong Executive Communication skills, especially in communicating complex data, performance, and data-driven forward-facing projections to an executive audience.

• Understanding of work planning and field work execution

• Advanced working knowledge of PowerBI

• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel including Power Query and large dataset manipulation

• Analysis for Office (AO)

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

• 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

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