Senior Gas Program Manager-Flexible Location

Requisition ID # 175465 

Job Category: Project / Program Management 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Energy Delivery

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland; Pleasanton

Department Overview

The Gas Strategy Execution department shapes the long-term direction of PG&E’s natural gas system to ensure it remains safe, reliable, affordable, and aligned with California’s decarbonization goals. We translate policy, regulatory, and system needs into actionable strategies and investment plans that guide how the gas system evolves over the next decade and beyond. 

Our team leads PG&E’s True North Strategy for Gas, integrating engineering, planning, operations, regulatory, and policy perspectives to inform system level decisions. We focus on:

•    Developing long range gas system strategies and 10-year plans
•    Identifying cost effective risk reduction and affordability opportunities
•    Advancing methane reduction, RNG, hydrogen, and other decarbonization strategies
•    Supporting load growth and system capacity needs, including large and emerging customers
•    Establishing governance and prioritization frameworks to ensure investments deliver measurable value

Position Summary

The Senior Program Manager develops and maintains the portfolio that supports large load growth on PG&E’s gas distribution system, with a primary focus on data centers and other emerging high-load commercial and industrial customers. The position will also monitor project progress against key milestones, identifies risks and barriers, tracks performance metrics, and facilitates recurring operating reviews to drive accountability, escalate issues, and align cross-functional stakeholders on priorities and actions. The role provides leadership with visibility into customer demand, project status, infrastructure requirements, resource needs, and emerging risks.

The role also develops and implements strategies, processes, governance structures, and infrastructure planning initiatives necessary to address increasing demand associated with data centers and other large commercial and industrial customers. The individual leads cross-functional teams, influences organizational priorities, evaluates infrastructure readiness, develops business cases, and provides strategic recommendations to leadership. 

Location is flexible between Oakland and Pleasanton HQs, please note hiring leader will make final decision of what are appropriate headquarters for the role based on business need. 

Position will require up to approximately 10% of travel time in work schedule. 

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory (Oakland or Pleasanton). 
PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job.  The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity.  Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum:$105,000
Bay Area Maximum:$169,000

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

Job Responsibilities

•    Applies advanced knowledge of Program Management to moderate to complex assignments and established programs. Works independently on most issues.  Receives guidance from manager. May participate in the development of new programs.
•    Manage programs, monitor and track work to ensure timeliness, quality and overall program budget.
•    Collaborates with Investment Planning, Integrated Planning, Distribution Integrity Management, Project Services/PMO, Operations, Construction, Division Engineering and others to execute projects in a timely and cost-effective manner.
o    Develop and implement new or improved processes, controls and procedures to improve program compliance, efficiencies and customer satisfaction.
o    Develop, analyze and update current and future work plans and schedules in SAP and other tools to reallocate resources or reprioritize program work.
•    Conducts project plan review meetings and project coordination meetings, issues meeting minutes and ensures resolution of identified issues
•    Monitors execution of work from initiation to closure to ensure units and unit cost is attained.
•    Monitors and manages financial and work management data related to assigned programs in SAP and related tools to ensure accuracy.
•    Develops annual productivity targets. Perform trend analysis, to identify issues with costs or productivity.
•    Conducts benchmarking and best practice reviews for engineering & design.
•    Develops recommendations for improvements to tools and processes and associated training to improve productivity and reduce operation costs. Leads the implementation of best practices and department reliability and affordability team.
•    Develops and implements communication and training for assigned programs to target audience
•    Prepares reports, status updates, variance explanations and budget recommendations. Makes presentations to manager and/or key program stakeholders.
•    Ensures ongoing regulatory compliance with the program.
•    Develops responses to program-related data requests.
•    Assists with GRC testimony research related to the program.

Qualifications-

Minimum Qualifications:  

•    5 years total related experience 
•    SAP experience
•    Project or program management experience

Desired Qualifications:
•    Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience
•    Experience in Gas utility maintenance and construction. 
•    5 years engineering experience.
•    PMP Certification

o    Knowledge, Skills, Abilities (Desired)
o    Knowledge of gas utility processes, regulatory requirements, critical success factors, goals and initiatives
o    Good Project management skills
o    Good organizational and process management skills
o    Good collaboration and interpersonal skills
o    Good communication, presentation and influence
o    Analytical problem solving
o    Basic financial, accounting, budgeting knowledge
o    Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools