Supervisor, Elec. Distribution Planning - Santa Rosa

Requisition ID # 158523

Job Category: Engineering / Science

Job Level: Supervisor

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Santa Rosa

Position Summary

Plans, organizes, and manages the implementation of PG&E's distribution capacity and reliability strategies, programs, and initiatives. Incumbents oversee engineers who develop and implement PG&E's distribution planning strategy and improvement initiatives. This includes program management activities for capital work associated with substation and line capacity projects for the distribution system. The leadership works with key department personnel, senior management, engineering teams, business partners and others to successfully implement the company's

investment strategies and initiatives.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and Santa Rosa based on business needs.

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: $147,000

Bay Area Midpoint: $199,000

Bay Area Maximum: $ 251,000

Job Responsibilities

• Ensures system capability meets demand. Ensures area load forecasts and proposed capacity additions are accurate, economical and timely. Monitors, forecasts, and stays within allocated division distribution capacity budget.

• Ensures the distribution system performance meets reliability targets and that outages are analyzed for cause, trends, & duration.

• Ensures the system is designed to be efficiently operated. Assists Distribution Operations Engineering in the development of contingency plans for loss of major distribution facilities.

• Works closely with estimating to ensure primary system is designed to current standards.

• Manages Union employees. May manage professional employees.

• May be responsible for distributed generation studies and related activities.

• Provides clear direction to Distribution Engineers and other departments in the areas of distribution capacity and reliability. Ensures that projects are appropriately justified. May participate in area specific or system-wide initiatives as an independent contributor engineer in addition to leadership responsibilities.

• Supervises staff to accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, rewards and recognition.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or job-related discipline or equivalent experience

• Five (5) years of experience as an Electric Distribution Engineer or equivalent, including, but not limited to distribution capacity planning, forecasting distribution peak demand, distribution reliability engineering, distribution system design, distribution operations, distributed energy resource (DER) development, clean energy transportation, and grid innovation.

Desired:

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering-Electrical-Power Systems or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• PE-Professional Engineer license