Senior Manager, System Protection

Requisition ID# 171094

Job Category: Engineering / Science

Job Level: Senior Manager

Business Unit: Strategy & Growth

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: San Ramon; Alameda; Alta; American Canyon; Angels Camp; Antioch; Auberry; Auburn; Avenal; Avila Beach; Bakersfield; Balch Camp; Bay Point; Bear Valley; Belden; Bellota; Belmont; Benicia; Berkeley; Brentwood; Brisbane; Buellton; Burney; Buttonwillow; Calistoga; Campbell; Canyon Dam; Canyondam; Capitola; Caruthers; Chico; Clearlake; Clovis; Coalinga; Colusa; Concord; Concord; Corcoran; Cottonwood; Cupertino; Daly City; Danville; Davis; Dinuba; Downieville; Dublin; Emeryville; Eureka; Fairfield; Folsom; Fort Bragg; Fortuna; Fremont; French Camp; Fresno; Fresno; Fulton; Garberville; Geyserville; Gilroy; Goodyear; Grass Valley; Guerneville; Half Moon Bay; Hayward; Hinkley; Hollister; Holt; Houston; Huron; Jackson; Kerman; King City; Lakeport; Lemoore; Lincoln; Linden; Livermore; Lodi; Loomis; Los Banos; Lower Lake; Madera; Magalia; Manteca; Manton; Mariposa; Martell; Marysville; Maxwell; Menlo Park; Merced; Meridian; Millbrae; Milpitas; Modesto; Monterey; Montgomery Creek; Morgan Hill; Morro Bay; Moss Landing; Mountain View; Napa; Needles; Newark; Newman; Novato; Oakdale; Oakhurst; Oakland; Oakley; Olema; Orinda; Orland; Oroville; Palo Alto; Palo Cedro; Paradise; Parkwood; Paso Robles; Petaluma; Pioneer; Pismo Beach; Pittsburg; Placerville; Pleasant Hill; Point Arena; Potter Valley; Quincy; Rancho Cordova; Red Bluff; Redding; Richmond; Ridgecrest; Rio Vista; Rocklin; Roseville; Round Mountain; Sacramento; Salida; Salinas; San Bruno; San Carlos; San Francisco; San Francisco; San Jose; San Luis Obispo; San Mateo; San Rafael; Sanger; Santa Cruz; Santa Maria; Santa Nella; Santa Rosa; Selma; Shaver Lake; Sonoma; Sonora; South San Francisco; Springville; Stockton; Storrie; Taft; Tracy; Turlock; Twain; Ukiah; Vacaville; Vallejo; Walnut Creek; Wasco; Watsonville; West Sacramento; Wheatland; Whitmore; Willits; Willow Creek; Willows; Windsor; Winters; Woodland; Yuba City

Department Overview

The Strategy and Growth team is dedicated to multi-year strategic and infrastructure planning infrastructure planning. With electricity demand expected to double over the next 15 years, we're building an energy system of the future for the world's fourth-largest economy. The team includes Energy Policy and Procurement, Innovation and Strategy, and Strategic Commercial Solutions.

Position Summary

The System Protection Leadership is responsible for oversight of all aspects the protection systems installed and owned by PG&E. The Incumbents manage the teams that specify, design, and apply protective relay packages for reliable and secure operation of transmission and distribution systems. The System Protection group also provides system support for departments that interface with protection schemes. The Leadership oversees testing procedures and the review and analysis of system disturbance and operations, equipment evaluation, and standard development. The group performs fault and disturbance analysis, system modeling, documentation maintenance, and audits of protection equipment. The group is involved in coordination and information exchange with other utilities and regulatory bodies. They also provide technical consultation and training for system operation and planning issues. The incumbents oversee 24/7 support to operation and maintenance departments. Incumbents develop, implement and execute relay asset strategies to provide a sustainable and reliable protection and control system at PG&E.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

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. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.

Bay Minimum: $182,000
Bay Maximum: $310,000

&/OR

CA Minimum: $173,000
CA Maximum: $295,000

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E's discretionary incentive compensation programs.

Job Responsibilities

• Oversees the System Relay Settings and Relay Coordination efforts within PG&E.
• Acts as the asset owner of all protective relays with in PG&E responsible for ensuring maintenance and relay replacements are completed within applicable standards and budget.
• Works with team to set strategy of a sustainable relay replacement program and to maintain expected levels of reliability.
• Facilitates the development of protection standards and the approval of protective relays.
• Ensures Project and System support, 24/7 Operational support, and 24/7 Maintenance support by making sure the department has required resources and goals.
• Oversees support for interconnection activities including interfacing with neighboring systems.
• Responsible for ensuring department operations meet regulatory compliance.
• Acts as a Protection SME for national committees and other external entities.
• Determines most effective department metrics to measure performance against annual or longer term goals and objectives, for time bound projects or ongoing operational work. Provides data for department performance to management and adjusts based on business needs.
• Manages staff to accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management and rewards and recognition.
• Develops and manages department budget, regularly monitoring expenses against forecast, providing explanation or justification for budget items and/or variances.
• 10-15 direct reports including supervisors, engineers, and support staff.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in System Protection or specific to the field of electrical power.
• 10 years of protection engineering experience including previous supervisory experience.
• Ability to travel approximately 20% with occasional overnight stays within the service territory and to meetings outside of California.

Desired:

• Masters Degree in Engineering-Electrical or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• Experience with bargaining unit employees, Supervisory experience, Substation, Grid Operations, Protection Testing and Commissioning experience,
• Project Management experience, Leadership Roles in Industry Committees.
• PE-Professional Engineer license
• LSS-Lean Six Sigma Certification
• PMI-Project Management Institute PMP-Project Management Professional certification
• Expertise in electrical engineering concepts, theories and practices.
• Depth and breadth of knowledge of electrical circuits, relays and software applications involved in identifying and developing effective protection schemes including fault analysis programs and Mathcad.
• Management skills to lead teams and promote employee engagement.
• Ability to monitor, gather and analyze information, to determine potential impacts, and recommend responses to challenges.
• Able to influence others to achieve understanding, acceptance and commitment to act in support of ideas, programs or causes.
• Understands the national and regional regulatory requirements as they apply to protection engineering.
• Capable of applying negotiation techniques to obtain commitment, compromise, or settlement while promoting mutual interest.
• Knowledge of California and Federal regulatory requirements such as Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), NERC/CIP, WECC, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), and California Independent System Operator (CAISO.)
• Proficient with MS Professional Office Suite (Excel, Word, Power Point)
• Strong project management knowledge and skills to effectively lead diverse teams and complex projects.
• Strong technical coaching and mentoring skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of the ESC contract as it applies to protection engineers.
• Significant knowledge of planning, operations and maintenance activities within a utility and the working relationship between these departments.
• Significant knowledge of how protection and control schemes can impact reliability and the solutions thereof.