Director, Maintenance & Construction

Requisition ID # 172401 

Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations 

Job Level: Director/Chief

Business Unit: Energy Delivery

Work Type: Onsite

Job Location: Paso Robles; Dublin; Fresno; Oakland; San Francisco; San Luis Obispo

 

 

Department Overview

 

T&S is 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 Director, T-Line M&C South is responsible for leading operational aspects of the T-Line including system inspection, maintenance, and construction for large capital projects and ongoing expense work. The leader and team will provide safe and reliable electric service while maintaining compliance with the California Public Utility Commission General Orders, all Safety regulations and other regulatory requirements. The incumbent will 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 event-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. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory. This role has a territory including Bay Area, Central Coast, and Central Valley. Expect 30% travel throughout the PG&E Service Territory.

 

Reporting

 

Reports into the Senior Director, Transmission Line.

 

Job Responsibilities 

 

•  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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Works with peer groups in Transmission and Substation Operations to ensure resources are adequately identified and mobilized to efficiently execute the annual work plan; this includes internal PG&E and contractor workforces as needed.
• Works with Asset Management and others as needed to ensure annual budgets are identified to accurately construct and maintain the T-Lines.
• Manages annual budgets in capital and expense projects.
• Provides ultimate accountability for ensuring that the department safety programs, and improvement plans are well designed and executed; leads organization to Best in Class Safety Behavior.
• Oversees projects involving interconnection with solar and/or alternative power generation sources (Electric Generation Interconnection – EGI). Ensures projects are completed on time, within budget and quality standards and that customer service objectives are met.
• Improves safety and human performance, including OSHA recordable rate, lost work day case rate, and motor vehicle incident rate. Ensures department has an active safety program where employees’ involvement is promoted, encouraged and fully supported.
• Improves employee morale and business understanding throughout service territory on an ongoing basis, seeking input and ideas from employees and sharing key message about Company performance, industry trends, etc.
• Supports diversity and inclusion goals and strategies.
• Improves transmission system reliability and drives scorecard metric improvements.
• Ensures compliance with all re