Job Description

Department Overview

Land and Environmental is focused on protecting and managing PG&E's land rights and rights-of-way (ROW), environmental permitting, and compliance by engaging our employees to better understand our clients' businesses and provide superior customer service. Aligning our operations and team with the client organizations we support with: planning, execution and overall service delivery.

The Land and Environmental Management, Wildfire Rapid Review team is responsible for providing land and environmental support to the Company's approximate 140,000 miles of electric distribution lines, with a specific focus on the approximate 25,000 miles identified as within extreme and elevated wildfire risk areas. We establish goals related to safety, customer service, affordability, land management and environmental compliance that require a collaborative, cross-functional effort of employees across the company. Together, we will become the leading corporate services organization and the leading utility in U.S.

Position Summary

This job is represented by Engineers and Scientists of California (ESC) and is subject to collective bargaining.

The senior-level land planner takes a lead role for developing standards, procedures, and technical guidance documents in support of project natural resource permitting work that is assigned to PG&E land planners and biologists working in client focused teams. The position requires an extensive knowledge of permitting requirements and regulations (Such as; Sections 404 & 401 of the Clean Water Act, Sections 7 & 10 of the Federal Endangered Species Act, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Section1600 Fish & Game Code, and Section 2080/2081 Fish & Game Code) as well as biological issues associated with utility projects.

Job Responsibilities

-Safety: Complete all required safety training in a timely manner, promote safety awareness within and outside of the workplace, maintain a high safety ethic for self and others, and conduct all work in accordance with all safety procedures.

-Initiative Planning and Workload Management: Ensure that the scope of program initiatives (including the development of guidance and procedure documents), schedule

and cost are accurately defined and approved before an initiative begins. Ensure the proper coordination and collaboration with subject matter experts in the scoping of project initiatives.

-Relationship Management: Represent PG&E in agency/stakeholder interactions and negotiations to best meet the goals and objectives of PG&E while maintaining compliance with all state and federal guidelines and laws. Work closely with PG&E project land planners and biologists to develop efficient and effective standards, guidance documents, and procedures. Develop and/or review agency or public meeting presentations for initiatives and or assignments and ensure that the presentation is factually accurate and based on sound scientific principles. The successful candidate will serve as PG&E representative in communications and negotiations on sensitive environmental issues with various stakeholders.

-Technical Project Management: As a member of multidisciplinary project teams, the successful candidate will be expected to express technical natural resource permitting knowledge and understanding of utility work processes to develop the scope, schedule, and budget for program initiatives. The Senior Land Planner is responsible for the ongoing management of process improvement projects and the development of strategic permitting and licensing guidance for business partners and contractors. Develops guidance and standards for biological resource permitting requirements, and evaluate the guidance and standards for cost effectiveness. Manages and provides technical oversight to contractors. Ensure a consistent approach by project teams, one that is rooted in current regulatory law and policies and that is also consistent with PG&E's goal of being a leader in the environmental arena.

-Technical Quality Assurance: Ensure that all technical reports, standards, guidance documents, and procedures (contractor or self-generated) meet the technical standards required by PG&Es standards and procedures and QA/QC group; as well as regulatory or agency guidelines. All guidance, standards, and procedures should be reviewed and prepared to ensure technical consistency across lines of business, unit, and multiple projects.

- Cost/Schedule Management: Manage cost commitments within the allotted budget. Ensure annual project budgets are estimated and submitted as required by the biology program manager. Provide technical and contract administration oversight for assigned workload. Ensure that all schedule commitments are met on or before the planned due dates. Ensure that all key initiative deliverable commitments are met on or before the planned due dates.

- Contractor Selection: Develop technical scope of work and submit requests for proposals. Conduct proposal evaluations and select successful bidder. Ensure that company strategic sourcing program is implemented on all appropriate initiatives.

- Environmental Leadership/ Community Involvement: Promote PG&E's environmental leadership or stewardship by providing technical presentations at conferences participate in and/or lead volunteer events; and/or actively participate in professional societies and/or within the community.

Qualifications

Minimum:

-Bachelor's degree in land use or job-related discipline or equivalent experience

-2.5 years of experience in land planning, environmental analysis, resource management or equivalent.

Desired:

-10 years of experience in environmental permitting field

-Lean Six Sigma Trained

-Certified Professional Wetland Scientist

-Certified Wildlife Biologist

-California PLS license, certificate from a land use /environmental planning program.