Sr. Manager, Compliance Controls Validation - Location Flexible
About The Position
PG&E is seeking an experienced business professional to lead the Electric Compliance Controls Validation Team. The team is responsible to evaluate compliance controls in both their design and operating effectiveness. As the Senior Manager of Electric Compliance Controls Validation, you will stand up, or continue to stand up, and oversee this new team responsible to validate compliance controls tied to electric processes. With deep technical, regulatory, and operational expertise, you bring a structured approach to developing/refining the process and leading the team to identify external regulatory requirements, benchmark internally and externally, validate process controls, and summarize findings. Your work strengthens PG&E’s safety culture and compliance posture and reinforces PG&E’s commitment that Everyone and Everything is Always Safe, advancing enterprise learning, transparency, and continuous improvement across investigations. Location of this position is flexible within PG&E service territory and will require occasional travel to other areas around PG&E’s service territory. This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and assigned office based on business needs. The selected candidate must live within PG&E’s service territory.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
- 8 years of experience with electric utility or related programs.
- 5 years of experience as a program or project manager.
- Travel is 40% of the time with occasional overnight stays
Nice To Haves
- PhD or Master’s Degree or equivalent experience.
- Advanced experience (5-12+ years) in regulatory oversight, audit readiness, and leadership.
- Deep understanding of California and Federal regulatory programs related to Electric Operations.
- Knowledge of operations, maintenance, and engineering program processes and procedures.
- Proven ability to prepare materials for and effectively communicate/present highly complex findings to senior and executive leaders with clarity, gain consensus on path forward.
- Proven experience in process map/controls documentation and evaluation and/or structured process improvement.
- Strong program management, project management, internal consulting, change management, and process improvement skills.
- Proven ability to diagnose organizational problems and develop business-minded solutions and to optimize customer satisfaction.
- Proven ability to partner with senior leaders across various teams.
- Proven experience standing up new teams from concept through steady-state.
- Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or equivalent
- Completion of professional auditor training
- Certification in Root Cause Analysis (e.g., TapRooT®, Cause Mapping, or equivalent)
- Lean Six Sigma Certification
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP)
- Professional Engineer (P.E.)
Responsibilities
- Develop/refine process to determine and prioritize processes to evaluate regulatory controls.
- Develop/refine the process and lead the team to identify external regulatory requirements, benchmark internally and externally, validate process controls, and summarize findings.
- Manage team to investigate process controls of medium to high risk to PG&E, may include working with PG&Es Legal team. Prepare and present summary of findings and risk to PG&E to senior and executive leaders.
- Stand up new compliance control validation team and transition to steady-state.
- Determines most effective department metrics to measure performance against annual or longer-term goals and objectives for time bound projects or ongoing operational work. Regularly presents department scorecard to senior management and adjusts based on business needs.
- Responsible for the regulatory compliance of the department’s programs. Work with regulators and other internal LOBs to ensure department meets regulatory rule changes, updating supporting processes as appropriate.
- Effectively maneuver through complex organizational situations without disruption, routinely resolving escalations to Director-level, Vice President-level and above.
- Manage staff to accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management and rewards and recognition.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
