Work & Resource Planner, Senior

Pacific Gas And Electric Company•Rocklin, CA

1d•$97,000 - $144,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Work & Resource Planner coordinates and assembles work and resource plans aligned with the budget plan, and monitors weekly and annual execution by Transmission and Distribution execution organizations. The role evaluates the effectiveness of business processes, practices, and procedures related to identifying known work and maintaining work-management data quality across work-management systems. The position may work with the GO Business Finance team to monitor and reallocate budgets among programs and maintain an overall view of budget performance. The planner supports strategic work-plan execution, analyzes resources against demand, helps stakeholders develop contingency plans, investigates performance variances, and partners with peers and stakeholders on integrated work plans and updates. The role also contributes to special initiatives, presents findings and recommendations to function management, and may coordinate prioritized annual work and resource plans, monitor work progression, and evaluate execution costs and resource needs.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Economics, Business Administration, or a comparable quantitative field, or equivalent related work experience.
At least 5 years of relevant work experience with steady progression of responsibilities.

Nice To Haves

Utility, energy, or regulatory industry experience.
Advanced understanding of utility or energy industry drivers, issues, and trends.
Advanced knowledge of long-term strategic resource and operational planning theories, concepts, practices, methods, and techniques.
Advanced data analysis, benchmarking, monitoring, and business or financial analysis skills, including knowledge of varied analytical methods.
Analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills to develop comprehensive solutions.
Advanced oral and written communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills.
Adaptability to changing business conditions and ambiguity.
Advanced knowledge of business and work-planning processes, including units, activities, and systems.
Advanced skills in Microsoft Office, Visual Basic Applications (VBA), Business Objects, or similar software.
Advanced skills in Microsoft Office, Project, Visio, Visual Basic Applications (VBA), or similar software.
For some positions, familiarity with units, Maintenance Activity Type (MAT) codes, Provider Cost Center (PCC) codes, dates, activities, and systems.

Responsibilities

Support establishment of a baseline strategic approach to work-plan execution.
Run regular reports from multiple data sources to analyze available resources and compare them with resource demand by work category.
Support development of contingency plans with stakeholders to maintain work readiness when work or financial plans require adjustment.
Identify actual cost or resource data outside the plan; obtain further information from systems or stakeholders, investigate, and determine causes of variances.
Partner with peers and stakeholders to develop integrated work plans, project-plan updates, and presentation materials for regular work and budget meetings.
Participate on special initiative project teams and, on occasion, take a team leadership role on specific projects.
Present findings and make recommendations to function management.
Coordinate with peers and stakeholders in assigned work streams to develop a prioritized and optimized annual work plan supported by a strategic, balanced annual resource plan.
Track and report work progression, monitor work-plan execution, and update portfolios for short- and long-term planning; ensure work plans are transparent and well communicated.
Maintain end-to-end process and workflow knowledge of at least one work stream.
Evaluate costs and resources needed to execute work plans.
May work with the GO Business Finance team to monitor and reallocate budgets between programs and maintain an overall view of budget performance.