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Hybrid Senior Manager, Wildfire Compliance
Posted 3 months ago
About the role
- Senior Manager at PG&E focusing on wildfire compliance, regulatory performance, and team leadership. Driving strategies for wildfire risk mitigation and overseeing collaborative initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Drive Wildfire Compliance Delivery: Lead PG&E’s wildfire regulatory compliance, including CPUC Wildfire Mitigation Plans, OEIS requirements, and CAL FIRE expectations, ensuring alignment, execution, and continuous improvement across PG&E’s wildfire programs.
- Take Command of Regulatory Response: Lead high-impact responses to audits, data requests, and performance reviews, positioning PG&E as a leader in wildfire risk reduction.
- Build Trusted Agency Partnerships: Cultivate strong, proactive relationships with OEIS, CAL FIRE, and other oversight agencies to influence outcomes, maintain trust, and drive mutual alignment.
- Validate Mitigation with Precision: Coordinate across Vegetation Management, Safety, and Engineering to confirm that mitigation activities meet both regulatory and operational expectations.
- Deliver Performance Insights: Define and communicate key metrics for Wildfire Compliance performance, applying pattern recognition and analytics to surface trends and guide strategic decisions.
- Champion Risk-Driven Thinking: Embed wildfire risk awareness into policies, programs, and everyday decisions by influencing cross-functional risk forums.
- Lead with Data-Driven Insight: Apply strong analytical and pattern recognition skills to spot risks early, provide predictive modeling, surface insights, and drive smarter mitigation strategies.
- Grow and Empower Teams: Lead, mentor, and develop a large, high-performing compliance team in a continuously complex environment.
- Communicate with Clarity & Authority: Engage confidently with executives and external regulators, translating complex reporting requirements into clear and digestible actions and communications.
Requirements
- Minimum Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- 8 years of experience with electric utility or related programs.
- 5 years of experience as a program or project manager
- Desired: Bachelor of Science, with a preference for Engineering or a related technical field/equivalent experience
- Bachelor of Arts with a preference for Economics, Public Policy or a related discipline/equivalent experience
- 5+ years in a leadership role, leading cross-functional teams at a regulated utility
- Minimum 2 years in utility compliance or emergency/wildfire response
- Familiarity with wildfire program data systems and risk reporting
- Certified Utility Safety Professional (CUSP)
- Root Cause Evaluation Certification
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Lean Six Sigma Certification
- Knowledge of operations, maintenance, and engineering program processes and procedures
- Knowledge of project management tools and methodologies.
- Excellent project and process management skills
- Depth and breadth of knowledge of regulatory requirements from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) North American Electric Reliability (NERC), Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC), and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as they relate to Electric Operations
- Specific knowledge and experience working with wildfire-related agencies, including CPUC Wildfire Mitigation Plans, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), and Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety (OEIS)
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills including the ability to communicate messages to upper management and external regulators.
- Analysis, written communication, and group collaboration skills and ability to lead teams and promote employee engagement
- Analytical problem solving and decision-making skills
- Working knowledge of Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) systems, GIS mapping systems, SAP Work Management, and Business Warehouse
- Working knowledge of audit and quality assurance practices.
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