Senior Quality Operations Specialist - Location Flexible

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 169,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Gas and Electric Company seeks an experienced compliance professional to join the Electric Compliance Controls Validation Team. The role supports identifying external rules, documenting controls, and testing design and operating effectiveness.

You will benchmark practices, summarize findings, and present risk insights to senior leaders. The position offers a hybrid work arrangement and requires living within PG&E service territory; compensation ranges are specified for the Bay Area and

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 10% to 30% of time as needed to support business needs.

Responsibilities

• Develop/refine the process to identify or confirm external regulatory requirements, benchmark internally and externally, validate process controls, and summarize findings.
• Monitors and evaluates 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 PG&E to senior and executive leaders.
• Develop strategy and action plans, working with Directors and Officers. Coach stakeholders to develop appropriate 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.
• 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 oversight

Leadership

Facilitation

Causal evaluation methods

Interviews and stakeholder engagement

Education

Master’s Degree or equivalent experience

Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or equivalent

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

Lean Six Sigma Certification

Professional Engineer (P.E.)

Job description

Requisition ID # 172738 Job Category: Compliance / Risk / Quality Assurance; Engineering / Science; Maintenance / Construction / Operations Job Level: Individual Contributor Business Unit: Strategy & Growth Work Type: Hybrid Job Location: Oakland; Alameda; Alta; American Canyon; Angels Camp; Antioch; Auberry; Auburn; Avenal; Avila Beach; Bakersfield; Balch Camp; Bay Point; 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; Pleasanton; 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; Watsonville; West Sacramento; Wheatland; Whitmore; Willits; Willow Creek; Willows; Windsor; Winters; Woodland; Yuba City

Department Overview

The Electric Compliance Assurance department is part of the Electric Risk & Compliance organization, where together we will embed compliance and risk in all that we do and achieve regulatory outcomes that support the business’ needs. The work of this department is critical in our efforts to find compliance challenges and identify areas of risk so that we can fix them. The main functions of this department is identifying areas of compliance risk and opportunities to mitigate those risks, including through incident reporting and investigations, overseeing Electric Operations and Power Generation CAP, and validating the controls on the organization.

Position Summary

PG&E is seeking an experienced business professional to be a member of the Electric Compliance Controls Validation Team. The Controls Validation Team is responsible to support identifying external rules and regulations we need to comply with, documenting or confirming the controls we have in place to meet those rules and regulations, perform design effectiveness and operating effectiveness testing, and identify potential opportunities for improvement to assure controls are implemented and effective.

This role will have a high level of visibility with PG&E leadership and will support one or many aspects of the Controls Validation Team’s scope. A strong applicant will have deep technical, regulatory, and operational expertise, and bring a structured approach to identify external regulatory requirements, benchmark internally and externally, validate process controls, and summarize findings. The work strengthens PG&E’s safety culture and compliance posture and reinforces PG&E’s commitment that Everyone and Everything is Always Safe, advancing enterprise learning, transparency, and continuous improvement across investigations.

The selected candidate must live within PG&E’s service territory.

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 towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.

A reasonable salary range is:

• Minimum Base Salary (Bay Area) $105,000.00
• Mid Base Salary (Bay Area) $137,000.00
• Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area) $169,000.00
• Minimum Base Salary (California) $100,000.00
• Mid Base Salary (California) $130,000.00
• Maximum Base Salary (California) $161,000.00

Reporting Relationship

This position reports to the Manager, Electric Compliance Controls Validation

Job Responsibilities And Expectations

• Develop/refine the process to identify or confirm external regulatory requirements, benchmark internally and externally, validate process controls, and summarize findings.
• Monitors and evaluates 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 PG&E to senior and executive leaders.
• Develop strategy and action plans, working with Directors and Officers. Coach stakeholders to develop appropriate 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.
• 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.

Background Qualifications

Minimum

• 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 10% to 30% of time as needed to support business needs.

Desired

• Master’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience in regulatory oversight, audit readiness, and leadership.
• Familiarity with California and Federal regulatory programs related to Electric Operations.
• Knowledge of operations, maintenance, and engineering program processes and procedures.
• Proven ability to prepare materials for and effectively communicate/present findings to senior and executive leaders with clarity, gain consensus on path forward.
• Working knowledge of process instrumentation and controls and/or structured process improvement or process reengineering.
• Ability to interview personnel at all levels to validate process and controls.
• Knowledge of work methods and procedures in order to accurately identify risks and areas for improvement.
• Ability to work independently and be effective in team settings.
• Leadership or facilitation training (e.g., crucial conversations and facilitative leadership).
• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or equivalent
• Completion of professional auditor training
• Experience with causal evaluation methods and investigations in the utility industry.
• Causal Evaluation Certification (e.g., Barrier Analysis, Fault Tree, 5-Whys, HFACS)
• Certification in Causal Evaluation (e.g., Conger/Elsie, Tonex, Cocrane (Firebird), Apollo, ASQ, TapRooT®, ISO9000, Sologic, Cause Mapping, or equivalent)
• Lean Six Sigma Certification
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP)
• Professional Engineer (P.E.)