Senior Manager, Electric NERC Compliance - Flexible Location

Pacific Gas And Electric Company•Oakland, CA

1d•$151,000 - $271,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Electric Risk & Compliance organization provides governance, oversight, and strategic direction on risk and compliance matters across Electric Operations, ensuring alignment with enterprise policies and external/internal regulatory requirements. It partners cross-functionally to manage compliance requirements, strengthen controls, and enable risk-based oversight through effective monitoring, data, and reporting. The Compliance Insights team provides strategic, comprehensive data analysis, reporting, and data-driven insights that support Electric compliance, investigations, and risk management. The Senior Manager of Electric NERC Compliance provides strategic leadership for NERC compliance by guiding mitigation planning, shaping risk-based decisions, aligning cross-functional partners, and influencing policy and regulatory strategy across WECC, FERC and CAISO. It also leads organizational execution by building strong internal controls, driving key initiatives, monitoring business KPIs and indicators, and developing high-performing teams to strengthen compliance outcomes and enterprise readiness. Leaders within Electric Risk & Compliance consistently show strengths in: Leading alignment and integration of initiatives; providing visibility into progress; facilitating cross-functional working groups and committees; and ensuring consistent communication in executive updates. Establishing and reporting on KPIs; partnering with data, analytics, and operational teams; and identifying gaps and trends to drive corrective action plans. Managing complex, multi-year strategic efforts that advance electric risk mitigation and regulatory readiness; driving project planning and budget management; and tracking and mitigating program risks and dependencies. Developing consistent governance frameworks and processes; standardizing operational rhythms; and ensuring documentation and audit trails support regulatory requirements. Serving as a strategic thought partner to senior leaders; preparing high-quality executive presentations; and fostering a collaborative environment by building strong relationships across diverse teams. The selected candidate must live within PG&E’s service territory and will be expected to work in the office 2-3 days/week.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering, economics, business administration or job-related field or equivalent related work experience
Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience with steady progression of responsibilities
2 years of leadership experience

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in engineering, economics, business administration or job-related field
Electrical engineer with experience in the utility industry to support technical interpretations and implementation of new compliance requirements
FERC/NERC utility policy experience or utility operational experience
Regulatory, analytical, communications or public affairs related position
Electric industry experience
Experience in leadership or leading teams
Advanced understanding of meaning and rationale of contract provisions; counterparty concerns; and the implications of specific contract language
Ability to synthesize and distill highly complex data and findings to present in verbal and/or written format to diverse audiences; to lead Company regulatory activities and to lead discussions of gas procurement issues
Advanced collaboration and interpersonal skills to effectively build relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders
Ability to employ extensive subject matter expertise to anticipate and resolve complex issues with minimal information or supervision of a manager or director
Ability to analyze complex problems and make decisions despite incomplete information and limited time
Provides direction, training, guidance, and instruction to regulatory analysts in a work environment that fosters teamwork, information and experience sharing, constructive communication and professional and individual development
Strong presentation skills
On-depth knowledge of technical and professional concepts related to strategy and planning
Exceptional understanding of the energy landscape
Knowledge of process improvement and driving change
Ability to synthesize complex information – both quantitative and qualitative, and deliver impactful presentations to influence change
Ability to influence and build relationships, especially on cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

Develops, monitors, analyzes, and reports on signposts that may affect the Company’s ability to meet its goals.
Identifies and analyzes emerging challenges and opportunities, assessing business impact and offering solutions.
Develops recommendations on how the Company can position itself to take advantage of opportunities and proactively adjust and prepare for challenges, mitigating risks.
Manages staff to accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, and rewards and recognition.
Collaborates with subject matter experts across the Company to develop and manage execution plans for key strategic initiatives.
Oversight of ongoing mitigation plans filed with the Regional Entity (Western Electric Coordinating Council [WECC]); leads partnership with Electric Engineering and asset management business units on the development of mitigation plans.
Leads partnership with controls verification team on development and implementation of test plans, incorporating any findings into improvements in NERC compliance; Identifies opportunities for new internal controls; helps build additional internal controls.
Oversight of annual gap analysis; identifies gaps between compliance requirements and guidance documentation.
Oversight of investigations into compliance issues with NERC--with a focus on O&P standard family; provides strategic direction regarding areas of NERC compliance in common with CPUC, OEIS, and CAISO.
Supports development of compliance narratives and RSAW documentation; oversight of WECC/FERC audits; provides input into FERC/NERC policy as it pertains to development of new and/or revised NERC Reliability Standards.