Senior Program Manager

Requisition ID # 161050

Job Category: Project / Program Management

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland; Alameda; Alta; American Canyon; Angels Camp; Antioch; Auberry; Auburn; Avenal; Avila Beach; Bakersfield; Balch Camp; 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; 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; 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; Oakley; Olema; Orinda; Orland; Oroville; Palo Alto; Palo Cedro; Paradise; Parkwood; Paso Robles; Petaluma; Pioneer; Pismo Beach; Pittsburg; Placerville; Pleasant Hill; 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 Jose; 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; Washington; Watsonville; West Sacramento; Wheatland; Whitmore; Willits; Willow Creek; Willows; Windsor; Winters; Woodland; Yuba City

Department Overview

The PG&E Energy Efficiency (EE) group focuses on inspiring and empowering our customers to eliminate unnecessary energy use, reduce their carbon footprint and save money. We manage a diverse portfolio of products and strategic programs that expertly deliver the right solutions across all customer segments, sizes, geographic locations and engagement preferences. As the nation's largest energy efficiency program, EE is helping to transform markets, set building codes and appliance standards and be the marker by which all other utilities are measured.

The EE Policy Shaping and Technical Oversight Team shapes the policy and regulatory environment to give customers control over how they use energy and achieve California's climate and clean energy goals. The team provides the larger Energy Efficiency (EE) team with the tools, policies, strategy, data analytics, compliance, and engineering support they need to be effective portfolio managers. The team works closely with staff from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and other Program Administrators (PAs) to develop and analyze EE policies and strategies, recommend policy changes, provide guidance on EE program compliance items, evaluate our own program performance, lead our evaluation, measurement and verification (EM&V) efforts, and communicate PG&E EE accomplishments. The team also supports PG&E's State Government Relations team and other lines of business, providing thought leadership on national and state legislative bills, California Energy Commission (CEC) proposals, and other national and state EE policy issues.

Position Summary

This position will support the EE Portfolio in several upcoming compliance items and have the opportunity to work cross-functionally across the entire EE portfolio to deliver on success.

The ideal candidate for this role, is someone who is interested in project managing several important deliverables for the EE team, coordinating with internal teams and our external Program Administrator teams, and has financial background to own several contracts and manage invoicing and forecasting efforts associated. These projects include various Advice Letters as well as several joint-PA filings supporting EE Programs details.

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. Work location will be determined by hiring leader and successful candidate.

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 between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors. This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E's discretionary incentive compensation programs.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $102,000

Bay Area Maximum: $162,000

And/Or

California Minimum: $97,000

California Maximum: $154,000

Job Responsibilities

The successful candidate can manage a multiple projects, develop and implement processes improvements, produce reports, timelines, and have an ability to work cross-functionally, and with external stakeholders, to support Energy Efficiency teams.

• Complex Project Management- establish project team with agreed upon roles and responsibilities and deliver successful product: obtain management approval as needed; ensure project documentation is maintained; identify, analyze, and address project performance issues; manage the integration of vendor tasks and track and review vendor deliverables; communicate project status to all stakeholders; assess project risk and develop contingency plans; and identify and communicate lessons learned and best practices.
• Contract Management: own several contracts, manage vendor relationships, process invoicing and share financial forecasts with leaders
• Stakeholder Relationships: form external relationships with other Program Administrators and CPUC Evaluation team
• Develop relationships with stakeholders and attends and represents PG&E at internal or external coordination meetings
• Communication: clear and concise to internal and external stakeholders, with appropriate tone and detail for audience
• Coordinate with Energy Efficiency policy and reporting teams for regulatory updates and reporting
• Responding to CPUC data requests and other regulatory updates
• Managing project documentation, agreements, contracts and invoicing
• Identify processes needing improvement and work toward change management with team and vendor

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
• Job-related experience, 6 years

Desired:

• Job-related experience
• Project Management and Contract Management experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and an ability to effectively communicate with leadership
• Strong ability to take initiative to work independently to achieve desired results
• Experience working cross-functionally to deliver projects with numerous stakeholders
• Experience in knowledge management and process improvement projects to further the team
• Ability to communicate effectively, and tailor the message to appropriate audience
• Knowledge of EE and/or Demand Side Management programs
• Experience managing budgets and contracts (and knowledge/experience of financing operations, accruals, and analysis)
• Comfortable operating or learning to operate internal tracking systems such as SAP, Ariba, Salesforce etc.

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