Area Planning & Tools Manager- Flexible Location

Pacific Gas And Electric Company•San Francisco, CA

9d•$151,000 - $271,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

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.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus in power systems.
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.
Professional Engineer (PE) license.
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.
One (1) year directly leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

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.
Manages electric distribution planning activities in assigned areas.
Oversees the processes associated with developing load forecasts, assessing new customer connection requests, assuring adequate distribution protection, developing capacity projects and developing reliability projects.
Collaborates with Electric Reliability to develop and implement methodologies to ensure optimum solutions that enhance reliability.
Collaborates with Electric Distribution Operations and Engineering to ensure seamless processes and support for clients.
Collaborates with stakeholders to develop and implement distribution automation strategy. Works with stakeholder groups involved with implementing specific standards and segments of overall automation strategy.
Participates in the development of grid needs assessments and distributed generation work.