Expert Electric Program Manager
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Rocklin • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $116,000 - $194,000 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
PMP
About the role
- Manages and administers a company program, a grouping of project work or a special customer offering with an annual financial budget
- Provides oversight, governance, communication, training, reporting, and overall process and project management
- Applies expert knowledge of Program Management to wide-ranging issues and assignments
- Works independently with guidance on only the most complex issues
- May lead project teams
- May work with other project or program managers or peers in other departments or regions to reschedule work, re-allocate funds and explore other means to achieve financial and productivity goals
- Negotiates and sets productivity and unit cost targets
- Prepares accurate forecasts, monitors spending, and develops and presents variance explanations
- Develops business case for budget and/or additional funding during the year
- Works closely with peers and leaders in line of business to ensure financial targets are understood and achieved
- Performs trend analysis to identify cost drivers and develop and execute mitigation plans to improve business results
- Manages capital and expense spending to ensure work identified in the program plan is completed and productivity cost targets are achieved
- Reviews cost monitoring systems to ensure that adequate controls are in place to uncover and correct erroneous charges
- Plans and forecasts work to be completed as part of the program
- Monitors and ensures closure/completion of projects and/or other program maintenance & construction work orders
- Identifies issues and develops solutions
- Presents recommendations and implementation plan to leadership for approval
- Provides standardized regular reports, along with custom, ad-hoc reports for special projects
- May supports divisions with reporting for operational metrics to provide intelligence on performance trends
- Develops and delivers presentation to leaders regarding the program progress toward goals
- Represents the program as a subject matter expert and stakeholder on process improvement teams, regulatory filings, and various stakeholder groups
- May support the GRC witness with testimony development and data request response support
- Develops communication and training plans
- Ensures target audience is fully educated in the purpose of the program and the proper processes and requirements to follow
- Ensures compliance with the program
- Ensures regulatory compliance with the program
- Leads partner organizations to develop and implement improved processes, best practices, controls and procedures to improve efficiencies, compliance and customer satisfaction and reduce cost
- Manages all aspects of programs that are cross departmental, complex and have a significant impact on the line of business
- Leads development of plans to achieve program goals
- May design and develop new programs under a larger umbrella of goals and initiatives
- May develop new policies and all relevant processes, infrastructure, documentation, tools, etc. to support a new program
- Develops tools for tracking and control
- May leads work teams or groups, no official direct reports
- May provide leadership or work direction to lower level peers
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
- Job-related experience, 7 years
- Experience in managing budgets
- PMI-Project Management Institute PMP-Project Management Professional certification
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
program managementbudget managementforecastingtrend analysiscost monitoringprocess improvementdata analysisproject managementvariance explanationfinancial reporting
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationnegotiationproblem-solvingcollaborationtrainingpresentation skillsorganizational skillsstakeholder managementadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor's DegreePMI-Project Management Institute PMP-Project Management Professional