Senior Program Manager - Workplace Violence Prevention

Requisition ID # 175784 

Job Category: Project / Program Management 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Technology & Security

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

Corporate Security leads the effort to deliver secure and reliable technology and operational outcomes across the organization. Collaborating closely with Cyber Security, Corporate Security is dedicated to protecting California's critical infrastructure by connecting physical, operational, and cyber defense to reduce risk and enhance resilience. The department consists of forward-thinking security operators, builders, and creators who design and manage protective operations that keep the organization at the forefront of modern security, combining disciplined execution with continuous improvement, innovation, and strong partnerships throughout the business.

Job Overview

Corporate Security is seeking a strategic, collaborative program leader to build, operate, and continuously improve PG&E's Workplace Violence Prevention Program across California worksites. This role will translate regulatory requirements into practical, sustainable processes that strengthen prevention, employee awareness, incident response, documentation, and organizational readiness.

The successful candidate will be a trusted partner to Security, Safety, Human Resources, Legal, Facilities, Operations, and employee representatives. The ideal candidate combines strong program management, regulatory discipline, sound judgment, clear communication, and empathy when working through sensitive situations. This role will lead governance, worksite hazard assessments, training, incident-log quality, corrective-action tracking, records management, and executive reporting for the program.

The position is hybrid working from your remote office and in person at various work locations within the service territory for assessments, stakeholder meetings, incident follow-up, and training support. The HQ location will be agreed upon between the successful and hiring manager.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the Workplace Violence Prevention Program roadmap, annual objectives, governance cadence, performance measures, and executive reporting across covered California worksites.
• Own the development, implementation, maintenance, accessibility, and periodic review of the written Workplace Violence Prevention Plan, including required roles, procedures, and worksite-specific content.
• Establish meaningful employee and authorized employee representative involvement in hazard identification, control selection, training feedback, incident review, and continuous improvement activities.
• Lead and document workplace violence hazard identification, evaluation, and correction activities, including assessments related to operational, staffing, environmental, and incident-driven changes.
• Partner with Security, Facilities, Operations, Safety, Human Resources, and Legal to prioritize and implement administrative, engineering, and work-practice controls that reduce workplace violence risk.
• Maintain clear procedures for reporting and responding to workplace violence and threats of violence, including escalation pathways, confidentiality considerations, non-retaliation expectations, and coordination during critical incidents.
• Establish and quality-check the violent incident log and related case-management processes, ensuring consistent classification, appropriate privacy protections, corrective-action tracking, and required record retention.
• Coordinate incident investigations and after-action reviews with appropriate partners; document contributing factors, corrective actions, lessons learned, and follow-through to reduce recurrence.
• Develop, deploy, and track initial, annual, and as-needed workplace violence prevention training that is role-appropriate, understandable, accessible, and supported by interactive questions and answers with knowledgeable resources.
• Coordinate program requirements at multi-employer worksites; manage vendors and program tools; analyze trends and leading and lagging indicators; prepare for audits or regulator requests; and recommend policy, process, communication, and control improvements.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor's degree in business, occupational safety, criminal justice, public administration, risk management, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in program management, environmental health and safety, corporate security, risk and compliance, human resources operations, or related work involving policy or program implementation.

Desired:

• Strong writing skills and the ability to produce clear, auditable program documentation, procedures, reports, and executive materials.
• Ability to manage sensitive information with discretion and sound judgment and to partner effectively with Human Resources, Legal, Safety, and Security.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and program tracking, reporting, or case-management tools.
• Professional certification such as Project Management Professional, Certified Safety Professional, Associate in Risk Management, Certified Professional, or a comparable credential.
• Experience with workplace violence prevention, threat assessment and management, investigations support, physical security controls, emergency management, or employee safety programs.
• Experience operating a compliance or risk program across multiple locations and multi-employer worksites.
• Experience developing incident logging, case management, training tracking, dashboards, or compliance recordkeeping systems with strong data quality, privacy, and retention controls.
• Familiarity with Cal/OSHA inspections, regulator requests, internal audits, root-cause analysis, corrective-action management, and audit-ready evidence.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority, lead sensitive cross-functional work, prioritize risk, and communicate clearly with employees, leaders, and external partners.
• Spanish proficiency or experience supporting multilingual and diverse workforces.

Compensation

PG&E is providing the full salary/pay range for this position.  The actual amount paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, internal equity,specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, and geographic location.  The range to reasonably expect will be around the minimum and the midpoint of the range. The final decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to the factors above. This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs. 

• Bay Area Min: $105,000
• Bay Area Mid: $137,000
• Bay Area Max: $169,000