Electric Distribution Planning Supervisor (Flexible Location/ Hybrid)

$251,000 - $251,000/Yr

PG&E - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Manager

Hybrid - San Francisco, CA

Utilities

About the position

The Electric Distribution Planning Supervisor is responsible for planning, organizing, and managing the implementation of PG&E's distribution capacity programs and initiatives. This role oversees engineers developing electric distribution substation capacity projects and manages the department's line capacity portfolio. The supervisor collaborates with various stakeholders to ensure successful execution of capacity program strategies and initiatives, while also supervising staff and ensuring alignment with long-term capacity needs.

Responsibilities

• Ensures system capability meets demand with accurate, economical, and timely area load forecasts and proposed capacity additions.
• Serves as Asset Planning Program Manager for the Electric Distribution Substation Capacity program, including portfolio prioritization and review/approval of project authorizations.
• Supports execution teams and Capacity Delivery Center with project scoping, engineering, and delivery.
• Supports regulatory filings including the Grid Needs Assessment and requirements in the High DER Proceeding.
• Collaborates with Substation Asset Management, Substation Engineering, Transmission Planning, System Protection, and Integrated Grid Planning to ensure alignment of investment plans with long-term area capacity needs.
• Participates in area-specific or system-wide initiatives as an independent contributor engineer in addition to leadership responsibilities.
• Supervises staff to accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, rewards, and recognition.
• Responsible for developing and updating Distribution Planning Standards and Guidelines.
• Manages represented employees.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent related experience.
• Five (5) years of experience as an Electric Distribution Engineer or equivalent, including distribution capacity planning, forecasting distribution peak demand, distribution reliability engineering, distribution system design, distribution operations, distributed energy resource (DER) development, and grid innovation.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree in engineering-Electrical-Power Systems or job-related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Familiarity with CYME, LoadSEER, Powerbase, EDGIS, ETGIS & EDPI.
• PE-Professional Engineer license.

Benefits

• Discretionary incentive compensation programs.