Senior Contract Management Analyst

Requisition ID # 166653 

Job Category: Legal 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department Overview

PG&E’s Energy Policy and Procurement (EPP) organization procures electricity, capacity, and ancillary services to serve the needs of bundled electric customers 24 hours a day. EPP reduces customer costs and attain stable prices through contracting and financial hedging instruments and in doing so, maintain a focus on sustainability by supporting environmentally-preferred resources.

 

In addition, EPP procures natural gas, pipeline capacity, and storage capacity on behalf of residential and small commercial customers, and for both utility-owned and contracted third-party electric generation. EPP is responsible for the front office and back-office functions associated with power and gas procurement. Front-office functions entail planning, contracting, trading, scheduling, and dispatching electricity and natural gas for PG&E’s customers. Back-office functions entail administering procurement agreements and ensuring timely and accurate payments to the CAISO and third-party power and gas suppliers. EPP also actively participates in regulatory and legislative proceedings that shape the design and implementation of state, regional, and federal energy regulation and policy. In addition, EPP is responsible for long-term planning, risk management, and compliance functions related to PG&E’s energy portfolio.

 

EPP's Contract Management (CM) team ensures that PG&E and the parties who sell energy and capacity to PG&E remain compliant with all terms of their energy contract, both for contracts that are actively delivering energy and for new facilities under construction. The Contract Management team manages hundreds of procurement contracts related to renewable energy, conventional energy, combined heat and power, energy storage, natural gas and biogas, resource adequacy capacity products, renewable energy credits, and greenhouse gas allowances, as well as associated transmission and financial hedging agreements.

 

Position Summary

The ideal candidate for this position has considerable experience and understanding of renewable energy contracts, energy markets (including the California ISO), and the California regulatory environment. In addition, the ideal candidate will also have excellent written and oral communication skills, an aptitude for critical thinking, and strong detail-orientation.

 

The Senior Contract Management Analyst will be part of a team (RPS and CSA Contracts Team), responsible for managing PG&E’s contracts with third party generation facilities and for assisting with regulatory reporting requirements. The Senior Analyst will:

 

• Develop subject matter expertise with renewable Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs);
• Work with internal and external parties to maximize the value of assigned contracts in the PG&E portfolio;
• Ensure that all necessary steps are taken for the facilities to deliver energy and/or capacity to PG&E in a manner consistent with the obligations of the agreement, market rules, and internal process;
• Ensure operation and administration of contracts is in accordance with all contract terms and conditions;
• Track and use contract information to support strategic decision making, and internal and external reporting;

• Interpret, analyze, communicate about issues and disputes that arise during contract administration, and put together recommendations to upper management for resolution;
• Develop and follow processes to ensure that contracts are managed efficiently, consistently, and in compliance with PG&E’s commitments under the contracts and its regulatory obligations;
• Track and use contract information to support strategic decision making, and internal and external reporting;

• Maximize benefits to internal stakeholders’ analysis and decision making by providing access to accurate contract information;

• And support regulatory efforts at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

 

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location is in Oakland, CA.

 

PG&E is providing the salary range that can reasonably be expe