AddressRequisition ID # 156185
Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Oakland; Alameda; Alta; American Canyon; Angels Camp; Antioch; Auberry; Auburn; Avenal; Avila Beach; Bakersfield; Balch Camp; Bear Valley; Belden; Bellota; Belmont; Benicia; Berkeley; Brentwood; Brisbane; Buellton; Burney; Buttonwillow; Calistoga; Campbell; Canyon Dam; Canyondam; Capitola; Caruthers; Chico; Clearlake; Clovis; Coalinga; Colusa; Concord; Concord; Corcoran; Cottonwood; Cupertino; Daly City; Danville; Davis; Dinuba; Downieville; Dublin; Emeryville; Eureka; Fairfield; Folsom; Fort Bragg; Fortuna; Fremont; French Camp; Fresno; Fresno; Fulton; Garberville; Geyserville; Gilroy; Goodyear; Grass Valley; Guerneville; Half Moon Bay; Hayward; Hinkley; Hollister; Holt; Houston; Huron; Jackson; Kerman; King City; Lakeport; Lemoore; Lincoln; Linden; Livermore; Lodi; Loomis; Los Banos; Lower Lake; Madera; Magalia; Manteca; Manton; Mariposa; Martell; Marysville; Maxwell; Menlo Park; Merced; Meridian; Millbrae; Milpitas; Modesto; Monterey; Montgomery Creek; Morgan Hill; Morro Bay; Moss Landing; Mountain View; Napa; Needles; Newark; Newman; Novato; Oakdale; Oakhurst; Oakley; Olema; Orinda; Orland; Oroville; Palo Alto; Palo Cedro; Paradise; Parkwood; Paso Robles; Petaluma; Pioneer; Pismo Beach; Pittsburg; Placerville; Pleasant Hill; Point Arena; Potter Valley; Quincy; Rancho Cordova; Red Bluff; Redding; Richmond; Ridgecrest; Rio Vista; Rocklin; Roseville; Round Mountain; Sacramento; Salida; Salinas; San Bruno; San Carlos; San Francisco; San Francisco; San Jose; San Luis Obispo; San Mateo; San Rafael; San Ramon; San Ramon; Sanger; Santa Cruz; Santa Maria; Santa Nella; Santa Rosa; Selma; Shaver Lake; Sonoma; Sonora; South San Francisco; Springville; Stockton; Storrie; Taft; Tracy; Turlock; Twain; Ukiah; Vacaville; Vallejo; Walnut Creek; Wasco; Washington; Watsonville; West Sacramento; Wheatland; Whitmore; Willits; Willow Creek; Willows; Windsor; Winters; Woodland; Yuba City
Department Overview
Help us change the electric utility industry from the inside! Join a small, high-performing team within Pacific Gas & Electric Company that is working on a portfolio of exciting and innovative projects to transform the electric grid into a smarter grid. The Grid Innovation team is charting the future of the utility and the energy industry as part of the Engineering, Planning & Strategy division of PG&E.
Grid Innovation evaluates and demonstrates emerging technologies, concepts and processes that PG&E will need to design and operate the resilient energy system of the future. Toward that end, the team works collaboratively with diverse stakeholders across the enterprise to design, build and test product strategies, roadmaps and implementation plans for innovation. The current focus of the Grid Innovation team is to build and advance products and processes to operationalize Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) including battery energy storage (BES), Solar PV, microgrids and Remote Grid Solutions.
Position Summary
The Microgrid Strategy and Implementation (MSI) Team is seeking a detail-oriented candidate who embraces curiosity, is driven to continuously learn and grow, and is nimble enough to take on whatever challenges may come our way. While the day-to-day work may change, the goal is always the same: do whatever is necessary to grow PG&E’s best in class portfolio of microgrid offerings.
The responsibilities of this role can be divided into two primary buckets:
MIP Program Management: This role will partner with the Microgrid Incentive Program Manager (MIP PM) to ensure best in class program management. Under the guidance of the MIP PM, the successful candidate will execute program administration tasks including financial management and reporting, program development, and leading various program implementation workstreams.
Ad Hoc Tasks: Microgrids touch on nearly every aspect of PG&E’s business, thus leading to an exceptionally diverse portfolio of work for the MSI team. At the direction of the MSI Sr. Manager, this role will support and/or lead various workstreams that come our way. Executing such work will typically involve learning aspects of a subject area, process, or skill necessary to understand the workstream/challenge, developing a preferred plan of action, engaging stakeholders and business partners as necessary, and seeing the task through to completion.
We are at the forefront of the microgrid and community resiliency space, creating new policies, programs, standards, and processes, often from whole cloth. This requires innovative and original thinking. It requires a learning mindset that embraces challenge. The ideal candidate would be comfortable being uncomfortable. They would embrace the unknown as a learning opportunity. They would rather try and fail than fail to act. Most of all, they would want to be part of a high-performing group that has a deep sense of shared commitment to each other and our customers.
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory. Work location will be determined by hiring leader and successful candidate. This position is classified as a “hybrid remote” (0-3 days in the office) and also may require occasional travel within the PG&E service territory to project site locations.
PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors. This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.
A reasonable salary range is:
Bay Area Minimum: $102,000
Bay Area Maximum: $152,000
And/Or
California Minimum: $97,000
California Maximum: $144,000
Job Responsibilities
Note that while the Ad Hoc job responsibilities, by definition, cannot be defined in advance, more details on the nature of the work and some prior examples will be provided to candidates during the interview process.
MIP Program Development and Management
The successful candidate will work closely with the Program Manager in various aspects of developing and implementing the Microgrid Incentive Program. This includes developing program policies, leading or supporting various elements of the MIP Tactical Implementation Plan, and recommending program improvements.
MIP Review Process
The successful candidate will participate in the review process of MIP Applications. This may include validating project schedules, budget, and overall feasibility of projects are reasonable and complete. This will involve determining what is reasonable and ensuring projects are evaluated consistently across applicants will need to be evaluated fairly.
MIP Payment and Contracting Administration
The successful candidate will lead development and execution of processes to ensure that community microgrid customer incentive payments and cost offsets (up to $18M per project) are appropriately approved, paid, tracked and recorded for each project. This includes confirming with project managers that appropriate milestones or other eligibility requirements have been met, necessary payment information has been secured, the cost type has been identified, project-specific order numbers have been created where necessary, internal approval and submission procedures for payments are followed, and support documentation and payment confirmation details are stored in a secure system of record. This person will be responsible for developing quarterly and ad hoc reports on project financials for the CPUC and internal and external requestors as needed.
Records Management and Reporting
The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring, in collaboration with project leads, the safe storage of all community microgrid project-related records, including non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), program forms, applications, agreements, and project specific content files. Documents must be appropriately segregated for confidential and non-confidential information, and handled in conformance with applicable NDAs and governing laws and regulations. Regular certification of records inventories and interface with PG&E’s Enterprise Records and Information Management (ERIM) team ss necessary. They may support with developing a document structure to help the team stay organized and ensure consistency across projects. This individual will also be responsible for leading development of quarterly program reports to the CPUC and responding to ad hoc data requests, with support from internal colleagues as necessary.
Qualifications
Minimum:
- Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Policy, Business, Finance, Sociology, Engineering, Physics or other related fields or equivalent work experience
- Job-related experience, 4 years
Desired:
- Advanced degree in a relevant discipline.
- Previous experience with program management
- Previous experience with policy and technical structure of microgrids
- Previous experience developing or evaluating tariffs
- Previous experience working in regulatory or policy-oriented organizations
- Understanding of electric system operations and engineering principles
- Performing project management, product development or analytic work related to electric or natural gas policy, pilots, planning, regulation, or wholesale markets
- Ability to distill and explain complex business and technical concepts
