Senior Manager Work Readiness

Portland General Electric • Portland, OR

5d

About The Position

At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all. This position will oversee a multi-faceted work pipeline comprising several key groups - Work Scheduling, Permitting, Pre-Requisite Processing, Crew Scheduling, and Dispatching. The role ensures optimal workflow timing and pacing to support PGE's strategic plans and priorities. Success in this position will contribute directly to Power Delivery's budget management, regulatory compliance, and unit cost performance through effective planning that minimizes rework and resource waste, while maximizing resource utilization by ensuring availability of the most cost-effective options.

Requirements

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, communications, social sciences or finance or other related field or equivalent experience.
• Typically 12 or more years in materials management, contract administration, procurement, supply or a related field; utility experience preferred; supervisory/managerial experience required.
• Expert knowledge of PGE's electrical transmission and distribution system
• Expert knowledge of regional planning, scheduling and dispatch operations
• Expert knowledge of company policies, practices and philosophy relevant to planning scheduling, prerequisite coordination and line dispatch functions
• Advanced knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods and coordination of people and resources
• Advanced knowledge of union agreement and labor laws, safety rules and utility construction standards
• Advanced knowledge of company planning, budgeting and accounting practices
• Advanced knowledge of planning and budgeting
• Expert ability to plan, implement and lead complex projects and/or organizations
• Expert analytical thinking skills
• Expert business acumen
• Expert decision-making skills
• Advanced influence skills
• Expert organization and prioritization skills
• Advanced organization management skills
• Expert problem-solving skills
• Expert resource management skills
• Expert safety leadership skills
• Intermediate strategic organizational skills
• Expert written and oral communications skills
• Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines and time-sensitive tasks
• Ability to follow accuracy standards
• Ability to follow through on decision-making tasks
• Ability to interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment
• Ability to communicate and problem solve when under stress
• Ability to respond and adapt to frequent change
• Ability to accept and demonstrate self-awareness when provided constructive feedback
• Ability to discern feedback and acknowledge ownership of areas of improvement
• Ability to avoid future mistakes by applying reasonable skills to new but similar work situations or tasks
• Ability to successfully collaborate with peers, managers and others within the organization
• Demonstrates sound memory
• Ability to process new information to be applied consistently to work tasks
• Ability to work long hours
• Ability to work a variable schedule
• Ability to report to work and perform work during periods of severe inclement weather
• Ability to consistently meet attendance standards for regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance
• Ability to work shift schedule
• Ability to work on-call schedule
• Requires a valid driver’s license

Nice To Haves

• utility experience preferred

Responsibilities

• General Management - Manages departments that provide services and resources to facilitate the work of PGE’s Utility Operations operating units so that they can achieve cost-management targets, customer satisfaction goals and operating objectives.
• Manage Strategy - Contributes to developing corporate strategic direction; develops functional strategies to ensure achievement of corporate strategic plans and objectives. Partners with leaders of other corporate areas to develop and implement strategies, policies and procedures, projects and programs required to attain company goals. Ensures departmental policies, plans and procedures are aligned with corporate policies and federal, state and local laws and regulations. Contributes to developing a corporate labor strategy that builds a collaborative labor-management relationship. Ensures corporate and departmental strategies and goals are effectively communicated to all levels of the workforce within the department.
• Manage Distribution Functions - Provides leadership and direction through subordinate managers and supervisors. Oversees design and crew coordination function; responsible for providing engineering design, project management, planning, scheduling and line dispatch for customer, maintenance and capital investment projects/programs. Ensures departmental functions are cost-effectively managed and provide timely and efficient outputs and results, ensures accountability and effective team results and overall organizational performance and ensures that line design and scheduling are managed effectively and economically to facilitate delivery of design and construction delivery to customers. Motivates employees at all levels to focus on delivering high-quality customer service. Utilizes business metrics to measure and provide feedback to improve operations. Ensures that all managers and supervisors implement all aspects of managerial accountabilities and foster a culture and environment in line with PGE’s values. Fosters a safe and healthy culture and holds managers and employees accountable for working safely, consistently and fairly, enforcing all safety, health and work rules. Represents Utility Operations and PGE to the community and the utility industry and with the PUC and other regulators.
• Functional Leadership - Exercises comprehensive functional and industry knowledge in specialized areas; identifies and resolves complex multidimensional business problems; exercises delegated authority over planning, direction and timely execution for a functional area or program; establishes and maintains contacts with management levels within and outside the company and at government agencies and with industry experts in accomplishing function or program objectives.
• Financial Management - Sets strategy and develops plans, policies and processes for the accounting, budgeting and, where applicable, charging of department resources and services, including the definition of cost models and charging models; sets, negotiates, approves and manages all financial budgets and targets, ensuring that there is adequate funding for department objectives and plans.
• Resourcing - Oversees workforce planning and resource strategy across multiple departments, ensuring that there is adequate skilled resource to meet planned service delivery or department objectives; ensures integration with strategic human resource plans; responsible for recruitment, development and demand forecasts for multiple departments.
• Professional Development - Determines organizational development needs in line with business needs and strategic direction of departments; generates development strategies to achieve required change; monitors progress and evaluates business benefits achieved.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees