Job Description

Department Overview

Gas Operations is focused on ensuring the safe and reliable flow of natural gas to our customers. As a whole, Gas Operations is responsible for all aspects of PG&E's gas distribution and transmission operations, including planning, engineering, maintenance and construction, restoration and emergency response.

Position Summary

Develops and communicates an integrated and optimized work plan portfolio for gas transmission, gas distribution, new business and electric civil work. Works with functional leads to establish the baseline strategic approach to work plan execution. Evaluates work portfolios ensuring associated costs, timing and resources needed are integrated and optimized. Develops contingency plans as needed. Monitors execution and updates portfolios for planning purposes. Drives strategic adjustments as needed. Works with key stakeholders to identify work plans for business improvements.

Job Responsibilities

* Partners with functional areas to facilitate the development of work plans
* Quantifies the funding and resources required to execute work plans efficiently in financial and operational terms
* Develops contingency plans for the portfolio of work in the annual plan.
* Monitors completed and active work plans, tracking costs against the plan
* Runs regular reports from multiple data sources.
* Helps determine options if plans are off schedule or over cost and may recommend plan changes to ensure work completion.
* Ensures resource balancing among projects throughout function.
* Communicates work plan updates, analysis of plans and actuals and discusses the trends and implications.
* Provides training and explanation on additional ways the users can use existing reports to further investigate issues or identify causes of variances.
* Develops recommendations regarding new or better reports based on assessment of user needs and work and resource planning trends.
* Participates in groups for brainstorming and process mapping to help improve business processes
* May participate on department project teams.

Qualifications

Minimum:

* Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, Business, Statistics or Finance or equivalent experience
* Experience in business, job-related, 5 years

Desired:

* Experience in resource management
* Experience with click scheduling, or related
* Program or project management experience