Senior Director, Transmission Line Operations

Requisition ID # 157346 

Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations 

Job Level: Senior Director

Business Unit: Electric Operations

Work Type:

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department Overview

T&S responsible for the maintenance and construction of the Electric Transmission system, Project and Construction, Generation Interconnections, Work and Resource Management, Compliance and Temporary Generation departments.   The Coworkers of Electric Transmission and Substation Operations ensure the delivery of safe and reliable electric service to our customers.  T-Line M&C executes highest-risk maintenance and construction activities to improve public safety and operation of the grid.  

 

 

Position Summary

The Sr. Director, T-Line Operations is responsible for leading all operational aspects of T-Line including system inspection, maintenance, and construction for large capital projects and ongoing expense work. The incumbent leads the T-Line department to work closely with Enterprise Health and Safety, Planning and Strategy, Standards and Work Methods, Engineering, Asset Management and other support functions to ensure safe and even-free operations of our transmission system and deliver on our stand of “everyone and everything is always safe”

 

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. There is an expectation of 40% travel doing “go-sees” which are field visits to jobsites and yards.  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.​

 

A reasonable salary range is:

 

Bay Area Minimum: $205,000

Bay Area Maximum: $349,000

 

 

 

Reporting Relationship

 

This position reports to the Vice President, Transmission and Substation Operations.

 

 

 

Job Responsibilities

 

Strategic Planning and Leadership

• Razor sharp focus on Safety Excellence and creates a safety speak-up culture.

• Provides leadership in developing and implementing short and long-term strategies within the areas of T-Line reliability, execution, safety, and emergency response while ensuring the department meets all legal and regulatory compliance requirements for each area of responsibility.
• Coordinates with the Regional Service Model and leads a team of directors to ensure clear expectations are set for performance expectations and timely and meaningful feedback is provided by leaders in the organization.
• Works with Human Resources and others as needed, ensuring ongoing performance of direct reports is maintained at a high standard and continually improved.  Coaches and develops employees.  Leads workforce strategy and succession planning.
• Routinely interacts with other business partners and develops extensive working relationships across all lines of business, to ensure overall business needs are being met. Proactively brings ideas, solutions, and alternatives to business partners for technical issues and challenges. Proactively solicits feedback from business partners on services.
• Attends external engagements to build on utility best practices such as conferences, tradeshows, partner IOU field visits, participate in panel discussions, host events, speak as a keynote, etc.
• Executes on the 5 Lean Plays from the Lean Playbook for the T-Line organization identifying waste elimination opportunities, facilitates problem solving, leads operating reviews, creates visual management, promotes an environment of continuous improvement.

• Ensures substantial plans are in place for the following:
  • Ongoing performance improvement of T-line system reliability, improving outage duration and frequency and overall electric system, public, and employee safety. Monitoring the quality of completed work, ensuring ongoing compliance with regulatory requirements, including completed construction projects, completed facilities maintenance and documentation of completed work.
  • Providing timely and well executed emergency response for localized and system-wide electrical events. Pla