Expert Gas Interconnection Manager

Requisition ID # 154398 

Job Category: Customer Support / Operations 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Gas Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: San Ramon

 

 

Department Overview

 

Business Development & Implementation (BD&I) within Gas Strategy Execution and System Planning (GSESP) supports PG&E’s True North Strategy with the continued investment in a safe and reliable system, greening the gas supply, and shaping the state’s policies. The team’s focus is on continuing PG&E’s progress to decarbonize the company’s gas supply with renewable gas while proactively pursuing gas throughput increases needed by our customers that utilize our system. These goals would not be possible without the concerted activities in developing and driving implementation of strategy and regulatory policies to enhance the foundation of our projects, processes, contracts, and agreements. As with any section of our business, there is a parallel path to enhance operational efficiency, continuous improvement, analysis, and benchmarking.

 

Position Summary

 

The Gas Transmission Interconnection Manager, Expert is responsible for all aspects of new large business commercial and industrial customer load, new gas supply, and fossil and renewable receipt points for interconnection projects to the gas system. This responsibility can include proactively developing business opportunities, supporting regulatory activities, and negotiating customer contracts.

 

Position:

 

• Execute on highly complex new interconnections including managing official applications, ensuring job cost estimates are produced and communicated to customer, completing standard form contracts, track project funding to ensure financial obligations are met and negotiating special facility agreements and/or any exceptional case agreements
• Monitor progress in engineering, design, project management, monitoring project budget and construction to ensure facilities are completed on time
• Inform and influence leadership decision making
• Operate independently with little supervision, manage moderate to highly complex projects and initiatives, accomplish objectives and effectively work both in teams and individually
• Apply project/program management methods to perform work completion
• Identify and work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders for project viability and execution
• Develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different internal and external audiences
• Proactive outreach to build relations and execute on new business opportunities to increase throughput and renewables for the gas system to support decarbonization
• Perform assessments, present to leadership for approval and offer negotiated rates
• Identify and maintain strong working relationships with all strategic programs and partners
• Support benchmarking with other utilities/3rd parties for process improvement, best practices and change management
• Support regulatory activities by writing testimony, responding to data requests, meet with regulators and other IOUs, and/or provide content for regulatory filings
• Utilize customer service conversation skills to ensure positive interactive relationships occur
• Utilize active listening skills, open to sharing ideas and develop divergent ideas to build a consensus incorporating problem solving skills to produce out-of-the box solutions
• Support internal and external education efforts championing our gas portfolio through preparation of marketing material and presentations

 

Travel: Occasional (~up to 5%) to field locations, sites and/or offices.

 

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 (San Ramon).

 

Incumbent should expect to travel through PG&E Service Territory for projects, meetings, trainings, etc.

 

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:$126