Work & Resource Planner, Senior
About The Position
The Senior Work & Resource Planner coordinates and assembles work and resource plans aligned with the budget plan. The role monitors weekly and annual work-plan execution by Transmission and Distribution execution organizations and assesses business processes, practices, and procedures related to identifying known work and maintaining work-management data quality across work-management systems. The position may work closely with the GO Business Finance team to monitor and reallocate budgets among programs and maintain an overall view of budget performance. This is a hybrid position, working from a remote office and an assigned location based on business need. The role is an individual-contributor position within Energy Delivery’s Electric T&D organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, Business Administration, or a comparable quantitative field, or equivalent related work experience.
- Five 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.
- Ability to adapt 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 costs or resource data outside plan; determine how to obtain additional information from systems or stakeholders to investigate variances and their causes.
- Work 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 recommendations to function management.
- Coordinate with peers and stakeholders in assigned work streams to develop a prioritized, optimized annual work plan supported by a strategic, balanced annual resource plan.
- Track and report work progression, monitor execution of work plans, and update portfolios for short- and long-term planning; ensure plans are transparent and well communicated.
- Apply end-to-end process and workflow knowledge for at least one work stream.
- Evaluate the costs and resources needed to execute work plans.
- Assess the effectiveness of business processes, practices, and procedures related to known-work identification and work-management data quality.
Benefits
- Eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
