Manager Wildfire Risk Management

Puget Sound Energy is looking to grow our community with top talented individuals like you!  With our rapidly growing, award winning energy efficiency programs, our pathway to an exciting and innovative future is now.

PSE's Electric Operations team is looking for qualified candidates to fill an open Manager Wildfire Risk Management position!

Specific details regarding the work arrangements for this position will be discussed in further detail during the interview process.

Job Description

Puget Sound Energy (PSE) is Washington State’s largest energy company with a history that spans over 150 years.  With this comes over 6,000 square miles with 2,700 miles of transmission lines and 353 substations across Washington that connects 1.2 million customers.  The beauty of the Pacific Northwest also comes with challenges with our diverse vegetation spanning our service territory.  

The Manager Wildfire Risk Management leads a team that owns and oversees the risk assessment and wildfire mitigation activities across the entire service territory.  With safety being PSE’s number one priority, this role is critical to protect the communities we serve.  

This role will lead both strategic and tactical activities to identify and assess risk, as well as partner with senior leaders to develop and implement effective strategies with a focus on wildfire risk mitigation. This role will champion wildfire risk mitigation efforts, to ensure awareness across the organization, oversee operational risk management and provide guidance on policies, practices, and processes that support the risk mitigation plan. 

In order to be successful in this role, the candidate will have experience leading a diverse team to implement the vision of climate change risk mitigation associated with wildfires.  Knowledge of electric transmission and distribution will also be required to be successful in this role.  As a leader at PSE, the Manager Wildfire Risk Management will uphold the safety compliance standards inherent in PSE’s operating and/or field procedures related to work responsibilities.  They will also promote and support a culture of total safety in everything they do.

Demonstrates commitment to conduct business honestly, ethically and consistent with our core values and Code of Conduct.  Ensures duties are performed in accordance with all regulatory compliance obligations.

This job is considered “safety sensitive” as defined in RCW 49.44.240 and is subject to pre-employment drug screening that includes screening for the presence of marijuana and marijuana metabolites.

Job Responsibilities

• Employee Safety, Development & Team Building - Providing employees with coaching, feedback, and developmental opportunities and building effective teams: 
  • Demonstrates a passion for safety. Promotes and supports a culture of total safety including eliminating at-risk behaviors by conducting safety audits and inspections, eliminating hazards and near misses, and attending safety meetings.
  • Sets clear expectations and holds employees accountable for performance as well as safety goals/targets where applicable.
  • Oversees training and development of employees directly and indirectly managed and makes effective staffing decisions. Ensures required training is successfully completed.
  • Challenges and inspires employees to achieve business results.
  • Accountable to ensure employees adhere to legal and operational compliance requirements, as well as safety standards.
  • Conducts and ensures the completion of performance reviews.
  • Provides coaching, direction and leadership support to team members in order to achieve employee, business, customer and safety results.
• Leads wildfire risk assessment and mitigation activities across the utility with reporting structure within Energy Operations. 
• Provides wildfire risk support, advice, and recommendations in order to ensure effective risk management and mitigation. 
• Leads the process to identify and document risk, assess the impacts, explore & evaluate mitigation alternatives, develop risk scoring and mitigation prioritization approaches. 
• Develops and maintains effective relationships with other risk and compliance managers across PSE to understand the interdependencies between risks and identify mutually beneficial mitigation strategies. 
• Influences wildfire risk and electric operations investment planning to include programs to enhance system safety and reliability.  
• Recognizes internal and external developments that may impact wildfire risks within electric operations. 
• Develops and presents executive-level presentations on wildfire risk overview, mitigation strategies, performance against plans. 
• Develops and proposes new plans, strategies