Area Planning & Tools Manager
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $151,000 - $271,000 per year
About the role
- Oversees engineers who develop and monitor PG&E's distribution load forecasting and power flow modeling initiatives, including the annual Distribution Planning Process (DPP).
- Responsible for managing, supporting, and setting the vision for distribution planning tools.
- Leads the Distribution Planning Process to ensure the distribution system is accurately modeled and timely solutions are developed to meet work plan commitments and regulatory deliverables.
- Sets the long-term vision and strategic roadmap for distribution planning tools, aligning investments and capabilities with evolving distribution planning needs and regulatory requirements.
- Manages distribution planning software tools, including new feature development, testing, deployment, and training to support effective system modeling and planning outcomes.
- Oversees JIRA-based ticketing for distribution planning tools, ensuring transparent intake, prioritization, execution tracking, and status reporting through regular operating reviews.
- Supports regulatory filings including the Grid Needs Assessment (GNA).
- Participates in area specific or system-wide initiatives as an independent contributor engineer in addition to leadership responsibilities.
- Manages staff to accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, rewards and recognition.
- Manages represented and non-represented employees.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent related experience.
- 8 years electric distribution engineering experience or equivalent.
- 5 years of electric distribution planning experience or equivalent.
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus in power systems. (Desired)
- Familiarity with distribution planning and data platforms, including CYME, LoadSEER, Teradata, Snowflake, EDGIS, ETGIS, EDPI, and emerging technologies such as multi‑processing, GPUs, and AI/LLMs. (Desired)
- Professional Engineer (PE) license. (Desired)
- Five (5) years of experience as an Electric Distribution Engineer or equivalent, including, but not limited to distribution capacity planning, forecasting distribution peak demand, distribution reliability engineering, distribution system design, distribution operations engineering, distributed energy resource (DER) development, and grid innovation. (Desired)
- One (1) year directly leading an engineering team. (Desired)
Benefits
- This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
electric distribution engineeringdistribution planningforecasting distribution peak demanddistribution reliability engineeringdistribution system designdistribution operations engineeringdistributed energy resource (DER) developmentgrid innovationpower systemsdata analysis
Soft Skills
leadershipteam managementeffective communicationperformance managementtraining and developmentstrategic planningvision settingproblem-solvingcollaborationrecruitment
Certifications
Professional Engineer (PE) licenseBachelor’s degree in engineeringMaster’s degree in Electrical Engineering