Senior Project Manager

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 162,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Gas and Electric Company in Oakland is seeking an experienced Project Manager within the Large Load Project Management Team. This multi-year role focuses on delivering high-capacity electric infrastructure projects, including transmission and distribution upgrades, with a strong emphasis on risk management and stakeholder coordination.

The position is hybrid, combining remote work with on-site collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) from an accredited college.
• Minimum 8 years in PG&E or 9+ years outside of PG&E in relevant fields.
• Active PMP certification required.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership, coaching, technical direction, and oversight for assigned projects.
• Proactively controls the scope, schedule, cost, and quality of a large portfolio of projects.
• Provides guidance on startup testing, inspections, and condition assessment.
• Guides engineering on risk and conceptual designs for sponsors/leadership.
• Oversees and administrates EPC contracts.
• Negotiates third party contracts in support of other departments.
• Makes presentations to PG&E Officers as appropriate.
• Arbitrates and resolves conflicts within the project.
• Mentors and guides less experienced project managers.

Skills

Project management

PMP certification

Stakeholder coordination

Risk management

Education

Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS)

Tools

SAP Financials

SAP Work Management

Microsoft Project

Job description

Requisition ID# 170614

Job Category: Project / Program Management

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Energy Delivery

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

Engineering, Planning & Strategy will play a leading role in showing California and the world how PG&E will meet California’s decarbonization and resilience goals while improving safety, affordability and reliability. The Large Load Project Management Team is responsible for delivering complex, high-capacity electric infrastructure projects that support major commercial and industrial customers. These projects often involve multi-phase transmission and distribution upgrades, regulatory compliance, and coordination with internal and external stakeholders to meet customer timelines and strategic commitments.

Position Summary

This job is represented by Engineers and Scientists of California (ESC) subject to collective bargaining.

This position, under general direction, exercises judgment and discretion and is responsible for all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned projects and provides a single point of contact for those projects. Project duration is generally multi-year, requires significant risk management, and may include formal partnering agreements with outside firms. Assignments will have high visibility, require extensive project management skills and often require specific discipline and areas of expertise, such as:

• Electric transmission substation projects
• Electric transmission line projects

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need.

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of thejob posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will bebased on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience,market value, geographic location, collective bargaining agreements, 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.

The salary range is:

CA Minimum, $161,520

CA Maximum, $207,504

Job Responsibilities

• Provides leadership, coaching, technical direction, and oversight for assigned projects; also provides knowledge transfer and assistance to many technical and/or project management employees and teams.
• Proactively controls the scope, schedule, cost, and quality of a large portfolio of projects throughout the project life cycle.
• Provides extensive knowledge and guidance to others in start-up testing, inspections, and condition assessment; actively supports complex and/or large project start-up tests and field inspections.
• Provides guidance to engineering on producing complex risk and alternative analyses, studies and conceptual designs for presentation to project sponsors and/or leadership.
• Oversees and administrates EPC contracts.
• Negotiates third party contracts, in support of other departments when appropriate.
• Makes presentations to PG&E Officers as appropriate.
• Arbitrates and resolves conflicts within the project.
• Mentors and provides guidance to less experienced project managers.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) from an accredited college*
• 8 years of PG&E (9 years outside) of relevant experience in electric, gas, or power generation operations, engineering, business planning, accounting, finance, construction management, or project management
• Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

*In lieu of a four (4) year degree, candidates may qualify with twelve (12) or more years of directly related work experience in areas such as accounting, engineering, construction management, project scheduling, or project controls, with responsibilities comparable to those outlined for this role. External hires must have a minimum of thirteen (13) years of applicable experience.

Desired:

• Electrical Engineering Degree for the Substation projects and Civil Engineering for Transmission line projects
• Knowledge of and experience with electric substations, and transmission line projects
• Fluent in the use of Project Management tools and current company tools, such as SAP Financials and Work Management modules and Microsoft Project Scheduling Software
• Superior ability to interface with and across supporting organizations and conduct formal presentations to officers.
• Knowledge of land acquisition, CPUC and environmental permitting, and EPC contracting procedures.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple medium to large scale complex projects; provide resolution of complex technical and/or contractual issues; and/or provide Project Management on multiple projects with complex scope requiring non-standard approaches; without supervision.
• Demonstrated application of extensive project management skills, including seasoned and experience-based judgment and organizational business acumen in applying and adapting traditional project management techniques.
• Demonstrates extensive contracting knowledge and contract negotiation and management skills.
• Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communication skills, utilizes a variety of styles to connect with the intended audience, and able to present complex information to upper management on a variety of topics.
• Builds consensus around complex and controversial project & technical issues.
• Demonstrated high quality work by self and others on project team.