Senior Gas Strategy Regulatory- Flexible Location

Description

• Communicates with peers and leaders inside and outside of the department exchanging ideas or gathering information
• Develops new approaches, processes and tools by modifying existing solutions
• Review the content for external regulatory deliverable and determine whether confidentiality review is required
• Manage relations and expectations with Regulatory Relations and law
• Lead regulatory activities by monitoring all proceedings that might impact GSESP, authoring testimony and pleadings, responding to data requests, documenting current and prior stakeholder positions on relevant issues, meeting with regulators and other IOUs, providing content for regulatory filings (advice letters, applications, reports), and monitoring legislative developments
• Provide direction and coaching to less experienced team members
• Manage all internal communications between SMEs regarding proceedings and cross-collaboration with different departments
• Ensure all steps are followed for finalizing new interconnections including obtaining official applications, ensuring job cost estimates are produced and communicated to customer, completing standard form contracts, negotiating special facility agreements and/or any exceptional case agreements and arrange for approval at the CPUC, and monitor progress in engineering, design, project management and construction to ensure facilities are completed by the time the customer needs service.
• Coordinate timely delivery and receipt of internal and external regulatory deliverables
• Manages moderate to complex gas interconnections with PG&E’s gas transmission system
• Develops innovative solutions and drives process improvement
• Support regulatory activities by writing testimony or responding to data requests. May meet with regulators and other IOUs, and/or provide content for regulatory filings
• Works with and leverages relationships with all levels of staffing within the department and across PG&E
• Presents findings and recommendations to function management
• May provide direction and coaching to less experienced team members
• Manage all communications between the company and the customer regarding the interconnection

Requirements

• Exceptional writing skills
• Proficiency and skill with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
• Ability to excel independently, build consensus, and cohesively collaborate within a team environment
• Understanding of meaning and rationale of PG&E contract provisions; typical counterparty concerns; and the impacts of contract language
• Knowledge and understanding of gas transmission and distribution
• Excellent strong written and verbal communications skills with the ability to present complex information with ease and clarity to management
• Highly skilled at leading project teams
• Three years of regulatory case management and coordination experience
• Strong organizational skills
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of the project management function
• Capability to construe tariff language terminology and apply it to individual project scenarios
• Ability to analyze, understand, and communicate information accurately
• Ability to present moderately complex data and findings to diverse audiences
• Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Business, Marketing or related or equivalent experience
• MBA or equivalent graduate degree
• Solid understanding and knowledge of the PG&E regulatory process and policies and those of the CPUC
• CCMP- Certified Change Management Professional certification
• Demonstrates broad expertise in project management
• Ability to interpret contract language terms
• Capability to analyze complex problems and recommend solutions despite incomplete information and limited time
• Knowledge and understanding of engineering principles, codes, and regulations that govern gas engineering and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) activities
• 5 years of related experience in the natural gas industry
• PgMP-Program Management Professional certification
• Proficiency and skill with engineering information systems and applications
• PMP-Project Management Professional certification
• Applies advanced knowledge to wide-ranging regulatory issues
• Ability to apply program management theories, concepts, methods, best practices, and techniques as needed to perform at the job level
• Competency in making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
• Ability to apply project management theories, concepts, methods, best practices, and techniques as needed to perform at the job level
• Experience with Microsoft Project
• Expertise in communication, interpersonal/collaboration influence and negotiation and process management
• Experience serving and meeting the needs of internal and/or external customers
• Knowledge and understanding of the principles and properties of gas impacting various internal/external environments
• Creativity and innovation skills
• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects with demanding time constraints

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance