Manager, Distribution Inspections and Maintenance Strategy

Pacific Gas And Electric Company•Oakland, CA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a leader in Electric Asset Management, our goal is to ensure our distribution assets deliver safe, reliable, and sustainable energy through strategic asset planning and management. Within this team, the Inspections and Maintenance strategy plays a critical role in optimizing the management of over 2.3 million distribution wood poles and over 80,000 circuit miles of primary conductor. The team oversees the short-term and long-term I&M strategies, as well as advancing continuous improvement to ensure inspection procedures and technology are updated to incorporate insights from technical testing, failure analysis and Subject Matter Expertise input. The successful candidate will interface with various external regulatory entities to provide updates on various I&M programs and commitments. There are several compelling initiatives in play that will require a competent, passionate, mission-driven leader to navigate the I&M team through development and delivery: Megabundling Expansion: We are strategically pivoting to circuit-based inspections, to grow the success seen in our “Megabundling” maintenance tag work. This is projected to increase our “eyes on risk”, while saving hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 5 years. Drone based GO165 Certification: In 2026, we will execute an aerial inspection (vs ground) effectiveness pilot, with the intention of approving drone-based data collection to meet criteria required for GO165 detailed inspections. Asset Health Monitoring: With the development of innovative new sensors and A.I./LLMs, we are reimagining the traditional maintenance approach, and assessing opportunities to implement additional touchpoints and/or “continuous monitoring” on some of our assets in order to safely extend life, and redeploy resources to more surgically target known risk. 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.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree in Engineering or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
Experience in project life cycle, job-related
Experience in engineering, job-related, 8 years OR Experience in operations, job-related, 8 years OR Experience in business, job-related, 8 years

Nice To Haves

Experience in cycle time planning, distribution assets, 15 years
Masters Degree in job-related discipline or equivalent experience.
Proven track record of developing data-driven strategies and managing cross-functional teams to deliver large-scale infrastructure projects.
Demonstrated success in managing teams.
Working knowledge of Electric Distribution inspections, construction, and/or maintenance.
Familiarity with CPUC General Orders 95 and 165.

Responsibilities

Strategically develops and oversees inspection and tag maintenance workplans, for detailed GO165, infrared, and intrusive Pole Test and Treat programs, as well as special projects for emergent issues.
Supports the development and reporting for the annual Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP) and some General Rate Case (GRC) chapters.
Report-outs to leaders in EAM in WORs and MORs, and to the Executive Leadership Team (ELT).
Partners with Regulatory and Compliance staff to ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements and support regulatory activities by supplying information for filings, data requests, and meeting with regulators.
Develops, owns and/or implements policies, standards, and procedures.
Develops long term strategy for distribution infrastructure while ensuring it is consistent, developed in concert with stakeholders (e.g. Risk Management, Distribution Compliance), and aligned with company objectives.
Creates data-based decision support tools to identify sustainability issues and inform asset strategy planning.
Develops and manages department budgets, regularly monitoring expenses against forecast, providing explanation or justification for budget items and/or variances.
Oversees the strategy and operations of assigned distribution asset programs. Ensures program work is scheduled, prioritized, completed on time and within budget while monitoring and remaining complaint with all regulatory requirements. Interfaces with key stakeholders as necessary.
Manages Supervisors and Professional employees.
Manages staff to accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, rewards, and recognition.