Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Principal Regulatory Analyst

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Oakland • California • United States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $238,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Develops, facilitates and strengthens relationships with regulators, industry experts and stakeholders to proactively advocate and communicate the Company's policy, business and regulatory positions to internal and external entities.
  • Represents the Company in public forums as a subject matter expert by providing clear and persuasive positions on regulatory issues and company strategies.
  • Leads and approves the identification, development, implementation, advocacy and resolution of complex policy/issues with regulators (state and federal with significant customer or financial impact).
  • Leads interdepartmental and intercompany teams in the preparation of applications/filings, testimony, and work papers for regulatory proceedings before state and federal regulatory agencies.
  • Performs and approves complex policy, regulatory and strategic analysis for issues that may have a short or long-term impact or affect multiple lines of business.
  • Assimilates large volumes of information and distills into compelling arguments.
  • Approves applications, filings, testimonies, exhibits, models, pleadings, discovery responses, summaries and other documents for regulatory proceedings.
  • Examines and prepares expert witnesses and interventions for regulatory proceedings.
  • May prepare and give testimony as an expert witness or as an intervenor before regulators.
  • Informs director and senior management regarding regulatory developments including meeting outcomes, proposed regulations and timing of key regulatory decisions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, public policy, finance, engineering or related discipline or equivalent utility industry experience
  • Eight years of relevant work experience
  • Electric engineer with experience in the utility industry to support technical interpretations and implementation of new compliance requirements.
  • FERC utility policy experience or utility operational experience.
  • Master’s degree or equivalent experience
  • Regulatory, analytical, communications or public affairs related position.
  • Electric industry experience.
  • Experience in leadership or leading teams
  • Advanced understanding of meaning and rationale of contract provisions; counterparty concerns; and the implications of specific contract language.
  • Ability to lead contract and settlement negotiations.
  • Ability to synthesize and distill highly complex data and findings to present in verbal and/or written format to diverse audiences; to lead Company regulatory activities and to lead discussions of gas procurement issues.
  • Advanced collaboration and interpersonal skills to effectively build relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders.
  • Ability to employ extensive subject matter expertise to anticipate and resolve complex issues with minimal information or supervision of a manager or director.
  • Ability to analyze complex problems and make decisions despite incomplete information and limited time.
  • Provides direction, training, guidance, and instruction to regulatory analysts in a work environment that fosters teamwork, information and experience sharing, constructive communication and professional and individual development.
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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