About the Role
This leadership position manages teams involved in the operations and maintenance of the gas transmission and distribution system, including unplanned, emergent, and mandated program work. The role oversees personnel performing maintenance, short-cycle construction, and mandated programs. Leaders are responsible for providing safe gas services, ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory requirements, and promoting a safety culture to improve safety, reliability, and affordability for gas assets.
Responsibilities
- Manage gas craft employees, ensuring compliance with corporate and regulatory requirements and company values.
- Ensure timely and safe completion of gas maintenance, construction, transmission, regulatory work, and gas damage control.
- Manage emergency responses and equipment maintenance, ensuring timely employee response and quality service.
- Monitor compliance to standards and specifications for high-quality work.
- Develop and track action plans for process or employee skill/knowledge deficiencies.
- Ensure work execution within scope, schedule, and cost expectations.
- Identify and implement productivity improvements and work practices to reduce operating costs while meeting compliance.
- Complete and maintain all work documentation and reporting.
- Communicate business goals and objectives to the work group and ensure accountability.
- Develop business knowledge and technical skills of field employees, fostering teamwork.
- Ensure customer needs and expectations are met through clear, professional communication.
- Implement and enforce safety best practices and adherence to the safety accountability model.
- Ensure full compliance with the Injury & Illness Prevention Program, facilitating weekly team meetings and training.
- Oversee projects and 2nd party contracting within the area of responsibility.
- Ensure mandated compliance dates and regulations are met.
- Review leak investigation documents and leak survey maps for accuracy and completeness.
- Ensure compliance with leak grading and L&M & Leak Survey tools and equipment as required by CPUC.
- Lead root-cause investigations on PG&E at-fault dig-ins and reportable events.
- Monitor the Gas Operator Qualification (OQ) Program and ensure compliance.
- Maintain craft qualification records for employees (e.g., welding, plastic fusion) as required by CPUC.
- Ensure accuracy of all associated paperwork and work packages.
- Review all department maintenance documents for accuracy and completeness.
- Complete all unplanned and emergent work.
- Execute required Operations & Maintenance, leak repair, corrosion remediation, and patrolling work from the annual workplan.
- Document completed work for Engineering to update Enterprise Systems (GIS).
- Make minor adjustments to the workplan (<10% variation).
- Communicate scope, schedule, and cost concerns to Resource Management for adjustment.
- Manage pressure regulation, odorization, and instrumentation assets, informing Asset Management of future needs.
- Address emergency situations as a first responder.
- Forecast Emergency Work, Maintenance Work, Leak Survey, and Leak Repair.
- Fulfill Incident Commander role during emergencies.
- Develop internal and external workforce strategy.
- Inspect and validate work.
Requirements
- High-School Diploma or GED
- 5 years of relevant experience (utility, maintenance, construction, operations, logistics, or service planning)
- CA Driver’s License
- Subject to random DOT drug and alcohol testing
- Ability to travel regularly to projects and visit employees in the field within the assigned geographic area
- Ability to stand on and conduct emergency on-call duties and work unusual hours in emergency situations
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration, Construction, Civil or Mechanical Engineering (Desired)
- Previous leadership experience (e.g., as a crew foreman) (Desired)
- Experience leading union-represented employees (Desired)
- Utility experience (Desired)
- Experience serving and meeting the needs of internal and/or external customers (Desired)
Skills
- Ability to create, promote, and manage a safe work environment
- Ability to develop and manage department budgets, expenses, and variances
- Ability to communicate and support company and organization policies, procedures, goals, objectives, vision, and values
- Ability to manage day-to-day operations, identify and implement operational changes and improvements
- Ability to develop working relationships with customers and business partners
- Ability to encourage employees to identify work process and system improvements, champion change, and facilitate change
- Ability to convey credibility, confidence, and authority; communicate simply and concisely; remain calm and productive under stress
- Ability to foster a learning environment and develop employees; understanding of PG&E’s business; obtain necessary training for functional area of expertise (e.g., NACE Cert, HAZMAT Cert)
- Working knowledge of the IBEW Contract
- General computer skills in MS Office and email communications
- Ability to perform effectively under deadlines and in emergency situations
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Supervisor
- 5 years of relevant experience
- Previous leadership experience
Education Level
- High-School Diploma or GED
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration, Construction, Civil or Mechanical Engineering
Salary/Compensations
- $128,000.00 - $218,000.00
About the Company
- Gas Transmission and Distribution oversees natural gas transmission and distribution operations, focusing on safety, compliance, customer service, and operational efficiency. The department maintains and operates 6,700 miles of gas transmission pipeline, 43,000 miles of distribution main, 3.6 million gas services, three PG&E-owned storage facilities with 102 BCF capacity, nine compressor stations with 175K HP, and 5,000 measurement and control facilities. It is comprised of approximately 6,000 employees.
