Senior Consultant, Electric Compliance Strategic Initiatives - Location Flexible

About the role

The Electric Risk & Compliance organization provides governance, oversight, and strategic direction on risk and compliance matters across Electric Operations, ensuring alignment with enterprise policies and external/internal regulatory requirements. It partners cross-functionally to manage compliance requirements, strengthen controls, and enable risk-based oversight through effective monitoring, data, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic guidance, coaching, and hands-on support to Electric sub-functions to strengthen and mature the compliance program and improve performance.
• Develop innovative tools and solutions to support/improve compliance program maturity.
• Assess Electric sub-function compliance programs.
• Perform compliance validation activities and testing controls for design and operating effectiveness.
• Supports the development and implementation of Electric’s Compliance Controls Program by providing expert support to cross-functional partners (operations, engineering, SMEs, compliance support teams) to strengthen controls, evidence capture, process consistency, and develop compliance metrics.
• Maintains a complete and accurate inventory of regulatory requirements, including identifying requirement owners, and mapping requirements to guidance documents, controls, and trainings.
• Performs analysis of compliance metrics, evidence, and documentation to identify gaps, trends, and areas for improvement.
• Supports maintenance of guidance documents, procedures, templates, and job aids that support compliance maturity.
• Identifies new or changing regulatory, operational, or risk concerns that may impact maturity expectations and recommends updates to programs or tools.
• Serves as a subject matter expert for compliance reviews with Electric sub-function leaders, facilitating compliance assessments and recommending corrective actions aligned to regulatory requirements and risk priorities.
• Prepares and delivers clear, executive-ready reports and briefings on compliance, maturity performance, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Evaluate and analyze regulatory requirement and internal commitment challenges to determine extent of condition and remediation effort.

Requirements

• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent working experience.
• Five years of relevant working experience.
• Desired: Master’s degree in engineering, economics, business administration or job-related field.
• Electrical engineer with experience in the utility industry to support technical interpretations and implementation of new compliance requirements.
• Professional Engineer (P.E.).
• Demonstrated experience performing or overseeing compliance monitoring, documentation validation, audits, or evidence-based assessments.
• Advanced knowledge of California and federal regulatory requirements and electric utility compliance practices.
• Strong problem-solving, project/change management, and communication skills.
• Deep knowledge of utility regulatory frameworks (e.g., CPUC, FERC, NERC, WECC) and how they inform enterprise compliance strategy.
• Proven ability to design and lead implementation of compliance governance models that drive operational alignment and accountability.
• Strong understanding of utility operations and asset management, with the ability to translate regulatory expectations into field-executable strategy.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional, high-impact initiatives through risk-based planning, change leadership, and strategic execution.
• Proficiency in compliance systems, reporting tools, and analytics platforms (e.g., GRC, SAP, Power BI) to support insight-driven decision-making.
• Direct experience in utility compliance, operations or related programs.
• Highly flexible, self-directed, and able to adapt well to a rapidly changing environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent working experience.
• Five years of relevant working experience.

Skills

• Strategic guidance and coaching.
• Compliance monitoring and documentation validation.
• Audits and evidence-based assessments.
• Compliance program development and implementation.
• Regulatory requirement analysis and mapping.
• Compliance metrics and evidence analysis.
• Compliance program maintenance and update.
• Compliance review facilitation and corrective action recommendation.
• Executive-level report preparation and briefing.
• Regulatory requirement evaluation and challenge analysis.
• Utility regulatory framework understanding.
• Compliance governance model design and implementation.
• Utility operations and asset management knowledge.
• Compliance system proficiency.
• Compliance program experience.

Benefits

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: Minimum Base Salary (Bay Area) $105,000.00 Mid Base Salary (Bay Area) $137,000.00 Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area) $169,000.00 Minimum Base Salary (California) $100,000.00 Mid Base Salary (California) $130,000.00 Maximum Base Salary (California) $161,000.00

Pay

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: Minimum Base Salary (Bay Area) $105,000.00 Mid Base Salary (Bay Area) $137,000.00 Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area) $169,000.00 Minimum Base Salary (California) $100,000.00 Mid Base Salary (California) $130,000.00 Maximum Base Salary (California) $161,000.00

Schedule

The selected candidate must live within PG&E’s service territory and will be expected to work in the office 2-3 days per week. The remaining days can be working from home.