Senior Manager, Risk Management & Safety

Position Summary

The Senior Manager, Electric Risk Management & Safety oversees risk and compliance issues for Electric Operations, including leading processes to identify and assess risk, and partnering with senior leadership to develop effective mitigation strategies and plans with a focus on public and system safety.

The incumbent champions risk efforts, ensuring awareness across Electric Operations, oversees operational risk management and provides guidance as a subject matter expert on corporate risk tools, policies, practices, and processes.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need.

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.

A reasonable salary range is :

Bay Area Minimum : $144,000

Bay Area Maximum : $244,000

Job Responsibilities

Leads risk management activities across Electric Operations. Provides authoritative risk support, advice, and recommendations in order to ensure effective risk management within the business.

Ensure Electric Operations practices are aligned with operational risk management processes (ORMP). Leads the process to identify and document risk, assess the impact, explore & evaluate alternatives, develop a risk score.

Develops risk management processes, systems, goals, objectives and metrics to effectively lead the implementation in Electric Operations.

Owns processes and improvements associated with Electric Operations Public and System Safety Strategic Plan.

Owns the Electric Operations Risk Register, ensuring a complete list of all identified risk factors, their definitions, risk score, prioritization and current status.

Propose & recommends risk mitigation plans & strategies. Ensures approved mitigation plans are incorporated into Electric Operations strategic planning and budgeting processes.

Tracks risk mitigation activities against commitments.

Develops and maintains effective relationships with other Functional Area (FA) risk and compliance managers to understand the interdependencies between risks and identify mutually beneficial mitigation strategies.

Influences Electric Operations investment planning to include programs to enhance system safety. Teams with corporate risk staff to ensure Electric Operations risk management is consistent with risk management in other FAs.

• Recognizes internal and external developments that may impact risks within Electric Operations. Leverages risk information to understand and challenge business decisions.
• Oversees the development of executive presentations on risk overview, mitigation strategies, performance against plans.

Develops and proposes new plans, strategies, and / or approaches to address risks. Strives to gain approval, agreement from executives.

Manages the risk section of the the Electric Operations Risk and Compliance Committee :

o Develops and proposes agendas for meetings to ensure risk information and management strategies are discussed in appropriate detail.

o Develops and implements a risk and compliance management dashboard to provide ongoing visibility into risk mitigation activities and to provide regular progress updates on Compliance Action plans and Risk Mitigation Plans.

• Manage risk and compliance metrics, tracks progress. Prepare risk and compliance materials for various executive and board-level committees.
• Represents PG&E to outside organizations such as regulators or industry associations regarding electric utility risk trends, common issues, or best practices.
• Maintains industry contacts for benchmarking and sharing information.

Qualifications

Minimum

• BA / BS degree in Economics, Finance, Business, Engineering, or equivalent
• 10 of related experience

Desired

• Electric Utility Operations experience
• Advanced Degree (MBA)
• Previous experience in risk management, safety engineering or quality engineering.
• Lean Six Sigma experience.
• Leadership & management experience
25 days ago