Emergency Management Specialist, Principal

Requisition ID # 173423 

Job Category: Compliance / Risk / Quality Assurance 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Energy Delivery

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: San Ramon

 

 

Department Overview

Electric Operations ensures the delivery of clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to nearly 16million people in Northern and Central California. Electric Operations is responsible for every aspect of PG&E's electric distribution and transmission operations, including planning, engineering, maintenance and construction, asset management, business planning, restoration and emergency response.

 

Position Summary

The Emergency Management Specialist participates in designing, developing, and maintaining Emergency Preparedness plans, processes, standards, and programs. This position will serve as the Emergency Action Plan (EAP) Coordinator for PG&E’s dams and is responsible for updating, exercising and improving the emergency plans for 88 PG&E dams and water control structures.

Incumbents manage the tools to support key operational programs to effectively support emergency response efforts across the organization including internal and external facing websites and software applications and are responsible for providing emergency training exercises and drills to internal coworkers in various departments involved in emergency planning and business continuity. Responsibilities also include the coordination of preparedness activities with internal and external partners to support an effective readiness posture to identified hazards and ensuring assigned employee groups perform effectively in emergency.

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.

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.

CA Minimum: $123,000

CA Maximum: $197,000

&/OR

Bay Minimum: $129,000

Bay Maximum: $207,000

 

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

 

Job Responsibilities

Utilizes knowledge of the dam safety industry, leverages the expertise from various key departments to identify continuous process improvement opportunities, assessing company business needs.

The EAP coordinator is responsible for EAP-related activities for 88 PG&E owned dams and water control structures, including but not limited to preparing revisions to the EAPs, establishing training seminars and coordinating EAP drills, tabletop, and functional exercises.

The EAP coordinator is the subject matter expert on the emergency plans for PG&E dams and is the contact if any involved parties have questions about the plans.

Develops and presents specific emergency management strategies which are aligned with the True North Strategy (TNS) for approval and implementation across functional areas.

Manages the planning, development, and implementation of functional area support for emergency incident response, restoration and recovery efforts associated with PG&E dams.

Liaisons between departments and functions within key departments and the Company to align emergency response plans.

Supports emergency activations and operations for dam safety emergencies and emergency centers/teams during actual emergencies. Interfaces at all levels of leadership regarding dam safety emergency response actions.

Identifies risks and/or vulnerabilities of hazards related to emergency planning, response, and preparedness for PG&E dams. Partners with cross-functional teams to address associated risks effectively and in line with the TNS.

Gathers and utilizes information from post-event critiques and ensures action items are completed and enforced. Analyzes trends and recommends improvements to senior leadership.

Develops, maintains, and communicates Power Generation emergency action plans, processes, procedures and roles, operations guides and manuals. Engages coworkers to maintain