PG&E Corporation

Electric Work Plan Portfolio Analyst, Expert - Location Flexible

Posted on: 27 Feb 2021

San Ramon, CA

Job Description

Department Overview

PG&E's Electric Business Operations team is responsible for providing direction and coordination across Electric Transmission, Distribution and Asset Management. Aligning operations and our people with the Electric T&D execution organizations we serve facilitates better planning, execution and overall service delivery. This is accomplished via distinct but interconnected teams:

1. T&D Investment Planning
2. T&D Integrated Planning
3. T&D Work and Resource Portfolio
4. Regulatory strategy
5. End to End Order management
6. EO performance Management
7. Work Tracking and Data Visualization

The Electric T&D Business Operations organization is led by a Sr Director who reports directly to the Vice President of Electric Asset and Risk Management. The Business Operations organization is responsible for driving partnerships across key departments within Electric T&D and lines of business across the Company to design and drive the strategic planning rhythm. The Business Operations organization owns and directs several processes including Electric T&D Integrated Planning, Regulatory Filings, and the facilitation of the annual expense and capital budget.

This high-profile team provides a great place for energized and talented employees to make a contribution, be recognized and ignite their career.

Position Summary

The Work Plan Portfolio Analyst will lead and support various workforce related initiatives for Electric Operations. This includes conducting deep-dive analyses of workforce initiatives based on an annual prioritization process with each Electric Operations line of business, workforce headcount for both internal and external resources, supporting relevant affordability/efficiency initiatives, and ad-hoc support of workforce development and/or initiatives being driven by the Workforce Strategy team. This position has high executive visibility and will engage with Electric T&D leadership, including VPs, Directors, and Mgrs. The Analyst will also work with the Manager of Business Strategy on strategic initiatives including the integrated planning deliverables for Electric Operations 5yr plan and 2 yr executable plan, PCC planning as well as provide support for the Electric Operations leadership team meetings.

Qualifications

Minimum:

* 7 years of relevant work experience with steady progression of responsibilities including skills data analysis and financial analysis.
* Bachelor's degree in engineering, economics, business administration or equivalent related work experience. If no degree has been achieved, successful candidate must possess 11 years of relative working experience.
* Highly proficient in Microsoft Office Products
* Ability to identify, prioritize, and manage multiple deliverables simultaneously

Desired:

* Experience working in Electric Operations and/or a resource management function.
* Utility, energy or regulatory experience and understanding of industry drivers, issues and trends.
* Strategic planning and/or communications experience
* Strong knowledge of long-term strategic business planning theories, concepts, practices, methods and techniques.
* Strong data analysis, benchmarking, monitoring and business/financial analysis skills including knowledge of varied analytical methods.
* Strong analytical problem solving and decision-making skills
* Strong oral and written communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills.
* Adaptable to changing business conditions and ambiguity.
* Knowledge of Portfolio planning concepts, methods, practices and techniques.
* Results oriented willing to set aggressive, but realistic goals and to hold others accountable for their performance

Responsibilities

* Partner with Electric Integrated Planning team and BF in the annual development of the 5 year Operating Plan, 2 year Execution Plan, by providing analysis that support organizational size and skill sets required to successfully execute the business plan
* Acts as a Subject Matter Expert in Portfolio, Resource and Workplan management related initiatives
* Leads long and short-term planning to develop prioritized and optimized long range and/or annual portfolio/work plans for multiple work categories.
* Oversight of work progression to meet operating plan milestones. Analyzes issues and develops solutions to resolve.
* Performs analysis on highly complex data sets that have cross-functional impact including resource balancing, operational trends, benchmarks and financial impacts
* Work with EO leaders to gather and analyze operational data and make recommendations for forecasting, scheduling, resource shift, contingency plans, contract/Internal labor mix and timing of work
* Evaluates and makes manages internal / external labor work allocation.
* Incorporates work plan and resource changes to align planned work execution forecast
* Develops and maintains Portfolio and resource planning models
* Creates standardized dashboard analytics to present to Electric Operations leadership.
* Researches and recommends metrics that would best enable positive business outcomes.

PG&E Corporation

San Francisco, CA

PG&E Corporation, through its subsidiary, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, engages in the sale and delivery of electricity and natural gas to residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers in northern and central California, the United States. The company’s electricity distribution network consists of approximately 107,000 circuit miles of distribution lines, 50 transmission switching substations, and 769 distribution substations; and electricity transmission network comprises approximately 18,000 circuit miles of interconnected transmission lines and 84 electric transmission substations.

Its natural gas system consists of approximately 43,100 miles of distribution pipelines, approximately 6,400 miles of backbone and local transmission pipelines, and various storage facilities. The company also owns and operates nuclear, hydroelectric, fossil fuel-fired, and solar electricity generation facilities. PG&E Corporation was incorporated in 1995 and is based in San Francisco, California. On January 29, 2019, PG&E Corporation Inc. filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California.

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