Principal Quality Assurance Specialist
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dublin • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $122,000 - $190,300 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Provides quality assurance (QA) for Electric Operations.
- Performs QA assessments for adherence to compliance requirements, company standards, laws and identified business process requirements to ensure processes, systems, structures and/or components meet required specifications.
- Develops clear and concise written reports to describe non-conformances or process gaps which are used to communicate recommendations for the eliminations of waste or process improvements cross-functionally with various stakeholders.
- May be assigned to support a specific department or area of the business.
- Scope may be limited to one regulatory agency or may include multiple agencies, laws, and regulations applicable to a specific department or area of the business.
- Supports revisions to the compliance and/or risk programs and tools as needed based on changes to applicable laws, regulations, and standards.
- Partners with Subject Matter Experts (SME), Requirement/Risk Owners, and business SMEs to develop controls, and metrics to hold the assigned owners accountable for compliance and/or risk management performance.
Requirements
- Minimum: High School or GED-General Educational Development-GED Diploma
- Relevant utility industry experience, 10 years
- CA Class C License, or equivalent
- 30% Field - 70% Office
- Ability to travel up to 50% of working time with occasional overnight stays
- Desired: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business Management or related field or equivalent experience
- 3 years of quality auditing/quality inspection experience
- 7 years equivalent experience in electric infrastructure construction and quality
- 10 years Electric Journeyman utility experience
- ASQ Quality Improvement Associate Certification
- ASQ Quality Inspector/Auditor Certification
- Six Sigma or other Lean/Quality related training
- Advanced data analysis and reporting skills
- Thorough understanding of regulatory requirements for inspection compliance – GO 165/95/128, ETPM Electric Utility Experience – GO 165 Field Compliance Inspections, Maintenance & Construction, Quality Control, Quality Verification, CIRT, Asset Strategy, Standards, Work Methods and Procedures
- Current or previous PG&E supervisory experience over Compliance Inspector, Linemen, QA or QC Specialist
- Expert knowledge of the requirements of Transmission Preventative Maintenance Manual - ETPM
- Expert level knowledge of assigned area of business including processes and procedures
- Ability to manage project and other group initiatives.
- Highly advanced analytical, program management, and communications skills
- Ability to influence others in order to achieve understanding, acceptance, and commitment to act
- Field experience with electric, gas or power generation construction.
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of the electric asset preventative maintenance manual.
- Master knowledge and understanding of relevant federal, state, and local construction codes and standards and PGE construction standards, bulletins and guidance documents.
Benefits
- PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
quality assurancequality auditingquality inspectiondata analysisreportingcompliance inspectionelectric infrastructure constructionproject managementLeanSix Sigma
Soft skills
analytical skillsprogram managementcommunication skillsinfluencing skillscross-functional collaboration
Certifications
ASQ Quality Improvement Associate CertificationASQ Quality Inspector/Auditor Certification