Hybrid: Senior Controls Validation & Compliance Expert

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is seeking an experienced professional to join the Electric Compliance Controls Validation Team in Oakland. The role focuses on identifying external regulatory requirements, documenting controls, and testing design and operating effectiveness.

You will work with leadership to benchmark processes, develop improvements, and strengthen PG&E’s compliance posture and safety culture across Electric Operations and Power Generation. Travel 20–40% is expected.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• 7 years of progressive experience in utility operations or in other highly regulated industry.
• 2 years of experience with causal evaluation methods and investigations in the utility industry.
• Travel to other facilities for meetings and site visits about 20% to 40% of time.
• Master’s Degree or equivalent experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop/refine the process to identify or confirm external regulatory requirements, benchmark internally and externally, validate process controls, and summarize findings.
• Develop controls or metrics to assist in monitoring and evaluating the success of compliance controls.
• Develops and leads team to perform business process analysis and business process reengineering. Prepare and present summary of findings and risk to senior and executive leaders.
• Develop strategy and action plans, working with Directors and Officers. Coach stakeholders to develop corrective action plans that contain effective solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Review failure data and make recommendations to improve process performance, applying broad company and industry knowledge.
• May coach and provide direction to less experienced team members.
• Works effectively in a matrixed organization, working with directors and managers across organizations to provide expert opinion and influence decisions.
• May develop/refine process to determine and prioritize processes to evaluate regulatory controls.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Risk assessment

Data analysis

Investigations

Communication

Education

Master’s Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Lean Six Sigma

PMP

CIA Certification

Job description

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is seeking an experienced professional to join the Electric Compliance Controls Validation Team in Oakland. The role focuses on identifying external regulatory requirements, documenting controls, and testing design and operating effectiveness.

You will work with leadership to benchmark processes, develop improvements, and strengthen PG&E’s compliance posture and safety culture across Electric Operations and Power Generation. Travel 20–40% is expected.