Dir, Enterprise Resource Planning--Operational Risk

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 193,000 - 277,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is seeking a Director of Enterprise Risk Management to lead a risk and compliance program within Electric Delivery. The role oversees a team of 15+ professionals and contractors, focusing on identifying, evaluating and mitigating enterprise risks while aligning with safety and regulatory requirements.

You will report to the Senior Director, Electric Risk & Compliance and collaborate with cross-functional leaders to strengthen internal controls, audit readiness

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance or equivalent experience.
• 10 years of successful professional experience with risk management, compliance management, audit or utility operations management.
• Proven track record of successful leadership experience, leading and developing strong teams.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and make decisions on risk management issues by identifying, measuring and managing operational and enterprise risks.
• Manage a wide variety of program components (e.g. enterprise-wide risk management) to ensure effective risk management.
• Analyze property loss control needs and develop action plans to enhance loss prevention programs.
• Lead enterprise risk and operational management programs and prepare review materials for senior management and the Board of Directors.
• Prepare complex materials (plans, budgets, reports, analyses) for documenting activities and meeting compliance requirements.

Skills

Leadership experience

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business/Finance or related field

Master’s Degree in Business/Finance or related field

Job description

Requisition ID# 175346

Job Category: Compliance / Risk / Quality Assurance

Job Level: Director/Chief

Business Unit: Energy Delivery

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

Over 6,500 coworkers in Electric T&D ensure the delivery of clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to nearly 16 million people in Northern and Central California. The Electric T&D Team is responsible for ensuring the electric grid's reliability and resiliency through the ongoing maintenance and operations of PG&E's 100,000 miles of distribution lines and over 18,000 miles of Transmission lines. Coworkers in Electric T&D's actively engage in the Lean Methodology through the use of Visual Management in Operating Reviews to cross-functionally identify and solve problems, and create standard work. By working together as One Electric. One Team. We are delivering for our hometowns.

Within the larger Energy Delivery organization is Electric Transmission & Distribution Engineering, Asset Management, and Electric Risk & Compliance, led by Shay Bahramirad, Vice President.

The Electric Transmission & Distribution Engineering, Asset Management and Electric Risk & Compliance team is responsible for planning, designing, and delivering safe, reliable, and cost-effective transmission, distribution, and substation solutions. The organization leads substation and transmission line projects, advances technology development, and provides centralized design and estimating to support system investments.

The team ensures consistent, high-quality execution through engineering standards, design development, estimating, and support to field operations, while embedding risk management and regulatory compliance into all processes. Substation engineering capabilities include detailed design, material specifications, estimating, and as-built documentation.

This organization aligns engineering solutions with long-term asset health strategies, prioritization, and investment planning to improve system reliability and resilience.

This organization also drives reporting and analytics to inform decision-making, monitor performance, and enable continuous improvement. Guided by PG&E's virtues—prioritizing safety, acting with integrity, and working as One Team—the team delivers on commitments that support the True North Strategy and provide safe, reliable energy to our customers.

Position Summary

This Director is accountable for enabling the business to effectively and efficiently manage risk in key areas of the enterprise. Seeks to create and sustain a leading risk management, audit, compliance, and security capability to support PG&E business goals. Plans, organizes, manages and directs the daily operations of the Risk Management function within the Electric Delivery organization, supervising and leading staff.

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.

Reporting

The Director, Enterprise Resource Planning—Operational Risk will report to the Senior Director, Electric Risk & Compliance; and will lead a team of 15+ risk and resource planning employees and contractors.

Job Responsibilities

• Analyzes and makes decisions on risk management issues by identifying, measuring and managing operational and enterprise risks for an organization.
• Manages a wide variety of program components (e.g. enterprise-wide risk management) for the purpose of ensuring effective risk management.
• Analyzes property loss control needs for the purpose of identifying issues, developing processes and/or recommending action plans to enhance property loss prevention programs.
• Leads enterprise risk and operational management program, helping line of business risk owners to measure risk and evaluate mitigation plans. Prepares review materials for senior management and the Board of Directors.
• Prepares a wide variety of often complex materials (e.g. plans, budgets, reports, analyses, recommendations, procedures, etc.) for the purpose of documenting activities and issues, meeting compliance requirements, providing audit references, making presentations, and/or providing reference materials.
• Identifies and analyzes areas of potential risk to the assets, earning capacity, or success of organizations.
• Produces reports and presentations that outline findings, explain risk positions, and recommends changes.

Background Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• 10 years of successful professional experience with risk management, compliance management, audit or utility operations management.
• Proven track record of successful leadership experience, leading and developing strong teams

Desired

• Master's Degree in Business, Finance or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• Ability to communicate effectively through presentations and individual discussions with managers and employees
• Excellent communication skills and attitude necessary to establish and maintain positive working relationships with all management and personnel.
• Independent judgment
• Strong analytical and risk assessment skills

Leadership Qualities

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

Strategic Mindset

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

A Leader in the Community and Industry

• Effectively builds formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
• Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Demonstrates Safety Leadership

• A safety champion in words and deeds with respect to both employee and public safety.
• Creating and maintaining a speak up culture 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 teams with a strong identity 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 Inclusion and Respects Individual Differences

• 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 safety, compliance, and ethics.
• 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 hometown, customer-centric solutions.

Compensation

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.

We estimatethe successful candidate hiredinto this rolewill be placed within the reasonable compensation range of $193K--$277K. The decisionwill be made on a case-by-casebasis. This leadership role is also eligible for an annual Short Term Incentive Plan (STIP) award, as well as the Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) grant.