Supervisor, Substation Electric Project Management - Bay Area

$140,000 - $238,000/Yr

PG&E - Oakland, CA

Full-time - Manager

Hybrid - Oakland, CA

Utilities

About the position

The Supervisor of Substation Electric Project Management is responsible for overseeing teams of Project Managers managing electric transmission capital projects within the service territory. This role emphasizes promoting a safety culture and ensuring compliance with company and regulatory safety practices. The incumbent will manage a portfolio of projects, ensuring they are designed and constructed safely, on time, within budget, and without adverse environmental impacts.

Responsibilities

• Manages the portfolio of assigned projects and ensures all projects are designed safely and constructed on time, on budget, on scope, and without adverse environmental or other regulatory impacts.
• Manages and forecasts accurate project portfolio costs aligned with annual and project budget targets.
• Proactively identifies and resolves project issues to ensure that projects stay on plan to meet overall cost, scope, and schedule commitments.
• Works directly with client/sponsor organizations to understand the scopes of projects and make appropriate project manager assignments.
• Establishes specific project manager expectations, metrics, and tracking tools to measure performance.
• Develop workload plans and strategies to establish balanced internal and external resource levels to support five-year plans.
• Regularly meets with each project manager to review the status of assigned projects.
• Works with technical Project Management teams in other departments or lines of business to effectively manage and improve the overall group's operations and processes.
• Keeps abreast of best practices in project management concepts, methods, and techniques.
• Supervises staff to accomplish results through recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, and rewards and recognition.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, or equivalent combination of education, experience, and training.
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
• Six years total relevant experience in technical project management or program management in the utility industry or business management in the utility industry OR three years of supervisory experience in project management, engineering, and construction of Transmission/Distribution projects.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's in Business Administration (MBA).
• Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt Certified.
• Leadership skills in driving work progress and improving work processes.
• Electric transmission and distribution network and substation system knowledge.
• Strong project management skills; knowledge of concepts, methods, and techniques.
• Strong project scoping and cost estimating skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Influence skills.
• Collaboration and interpersonal skills.
• Strong MS Office skills.
• Knowledge of Engineers and Scientists of California (ESC) Union Contract.
• Financial acumen, understanding of contingency cost estimating and its use.
• Skilled in negotiating and managing engineering, procurement, and construction services contracts.
• Knowledge of SAP and SRM (Sourcing) systems.
• Proficient with MS Project, Primavera, or other project management systems.

Benefits

• Discretionary incentive compensation programs.