Job Description

Department Overview

The Corporate Sustainability team, which is part of the Corporate Affairs organization, works to integrate and align PG&E's sustainability strategy with its business strategy. With the support of PG&E's Chief Sustainability Officer, the team works collaboratively to advance energy and environmental policy issues important to our business and customers; integrate forward-looking climate data into decision-making across the company; identify, benchmark, and implement best practices to drive continuous improvement within our business; and engage with a wide range of stakeholders, both within and outside the company, to guide and advance PG&E's sustainability strategy.

Position Summary:

The Sustainability Specialist, Expert will support PG&E's climate resilience and adaptation program, a core initiative within the sustainability team. This position will work to identify and analyze physical risks related to climate change that impact PG&E's business, employees, customers and communities, with a focus on integrating climate data into enterprise and operational risk models. The candidate will work with PG&E's gas, electric, and generation lines of business as well as the Enterprise and Operational Risk Management organization to assess how climate change will affect the safety and reliability of PG&E's assets, operations and services over time. The candidate will also work collaboratively within and across internal departments to innovate, design and implement tools and processes for managing climate risks, and will lead initiatives to measure and track PG&E's progress in increasing climate resilience.

Desired Skills:

The successful candidate will have demonstrated knowledge of climate change risk; strong research and analytical skills; experience with risk management and modeling, and familiarity with environmental and energy issues. Familiarity with energy infrastructure is a plus. The individual will possess outstanding written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills and the ability to communicate complex issues to a range of audiences. The individual will have strong organizational, creative, and strategic thinking skills. The successful candidate will also be able to effectively operate both independently and as part of a team and to manage multiple projects simultaneously from conception to implementation.

Responsibilities:

* Work across lines of business to integrate forward looking climate data into enterprise and operational risk models.
* Support development of innovative ways to mitigate climate risk that will form the basis for climate adaptation plans.
* Lead efforts to measure and track climate resilience, including development of metrics and assessments of how PG&E's capabilities on managing climate risk are changing over time.
* Research latest developments on climate change models and studies to understand and assess potential climate impacts on PG&E's infrastructure, operations, services, employees and communities.
* Support team initiatives to achieve PG&E's climate resilience goals, including the company's Climate Vulnerability Assessment.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
* Seven years of experience in a related field

Desired Qualifications:

* Master's degree
* Experience working with climate-related models and associated outputs or natural resource-related models and associated outputs
* Experience in risk modeling and quantification and demonstrable familiarity with applicable software tools.
* Familiarity with energy and/or utility infrastructure, particularly in California.