Senior Director, Construction Strategy

Requisition ID # 160842 

Job Category: Project / Program Management 

Job Level: Senior Director

Business Unit: Electric Operations

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Sacramento; Dublin; Rocklin

Position Summary

The Sr. Director, Construction Strategy and Analytics is responsible for the construction, project and contract management of PG&E’s electric distribution overhead and underground facilities. The Senior Director leads the completion of annual work plans to ensure safe and reliable electric service delivery to customers. The incumbent also provides high level oversight of activities related to PG&E’s involvement in the state infrastructure projects (i.e.: high speed rail, watershed, etc). The Sr. Director will provide strategic leadership and direction to general construction, project and contract management directors managing a large workforce including ESC and IBEW union- represented employees. The incumbent plays a primary role in emergency program preparedness and emergency response through the incident command system impacting electric operations.

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 Relationship

Reports into the Interim Lead, Construction Management.

Job Responsibilities

• Provides leadership in developing and implementing short and long-term strategies for work execution, general construction for all T&D capital programs, and emergency response.
• Ensures construction, project and contract management and compliance objectives are achieved for the entire electric distribution service territory within budget, on time and within CPUC regulations. Improves electric system reliability and drives customer satisfaction. Coaches and leads departments in developing plans to reduce distribution outage frequency and durations as well as public and employee safety. Ensures completion of reliability improvement projects.
• Collaborates with Vice President and peers to develop and propose annual budgets to cost effectively construct the electric distribution system. Manages and monitors a large organization annual operating expense budget. Develops financial and staffing plans for each function of the department.
• Strategize to ensure all estimating and design resources are being effectively utilized to meet the operating plan.
• Ensures effective work & resource planning and scheduling for the service territory. Partners with the Distribution Operations, Strategic Business Management and Asset Management departments on short- and long-term work and resource planning strategies. Ensures optimal resources are identified and mobilized to efficiently execute the annual work plan, including internal PG&E and contractor workforces as needed.
• Regularly travels the service territory, meeting with employees to promote the construction, project and contract management goals, vision, safety and to share company & industry information and improve employee engagement. Partners with Human Resources in monitoring and exploring strategies to meet engagement and diversity goals.
• Ensures the department safety programs and improvement plans are well designed and executed. Strives to continuously improve the safety performance of the organization. Ensures thorough, complete and timely root analysis to understand the nature if all incident and accidents and that controls are in place to prevent reoccurrence.
• Directs continuous improvement for all processes and procedures utilized for the delivery of electric construction, project and contract management, providing employees with essential and useful technical information, tools and equipment.
• Ensures plans in are in place to provide timely and well executed emergency response for localized and system-wide electrical events. Supports and leads department participation in periodic emergency drills to maintain an ongoing state of readiness.
• Routinely interfaces with Managers, Directors and Officers across lines of business to develop effective working relationships and ensure overall business needs are met. Proactively recommends ideas and alternative solutions to business partners for technical issues and challenges. Proactively solicits feedback and collaborates and influences to develop solutions.

Leadership Qualities

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

Strategic Mindset

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

A Leader in the Community and Industry

• Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
• Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Demonstrates Safety Leadership

• A safety champion in words and deeds with respect to both employee and public safety.
• Maintaining an environment of open dialog and 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 strong-identity teams 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 Diversity and Creates Inclusion

• 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 ethics, safety and compliance.
• 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 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.  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:

Bay Area Minimum: $201,000.00

Bay Area Maximum: $343,000.00

Or

California Minimum: $191,000.00

California Maximum: $326,000.00

Background Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or related field or equivalent experience
• 12 years related, progressive experience in a large organization.
• Experience leading utility contract management, construction and project management teams.

Desired

• Degree in Engineering
• MBA
• Broad utility operations experience including leading a large and complex organization.
• Emergency response experience.
• Experience leading and executing change management.
• Experience in working with both union and non-union employees.