What are the responsibilities and job description for the Expert Strategic Analyst position at PG&E Corporation?
Job Description
Requisition ID # 150097
Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Oakland
Department Overview
The position will reside within the PG&E's System Planning organization. System Planning is part of PG&E's Engineering, Planning and Strategy organization. The vision for System Planning is to lead the way in inventing California's new clean-energy future. The team's mission is to provide forecasts and answer planning questions three-to-thirty years in the future. The work is informed by analytics using an integrated planning approach, considering California's and PG&E's electric system, gas system, advanced load management and bulk generation resources. System Planning provides support for PG&E's commercial and regulatory activities and important linkages to PG&E's policy, strategy, investment, and finance plans.
Position Summary
PG&E is seeking a highly motivated Analyst with a unique combination of subject matter expertise in distributed energy resources, retail choice, analytics, data management and visualization, and the regulated utility business environment.
The California energy landscape is rapidly evolving in response to the convergence of policy, technology and customer trends that are driving toward a cleaner and more decentralized energy future. The analyst will be part of a dynamic and innovative team responsible for quantifying the adoption and impact of emerging customer energy choices (e.g., load serving entity, rooftop solar energy, energy storage, electric vehicles, microgrids, energy efficiency and building electrification). The team's forecasts are critical inputs in PG&E's development long-term business strategies, energy supply portfolios and infrastructure plans.
The analyst will support PG&E planning stakeholders and senior leaders by building and implementing systems to document, summarize and visually communicate key forecasts, and planning and operating metrics. The analyst will also develop innovative and data-driven forecasts of customer energy choices by identifying emerging energy delivery trends and behind-the-meter energy technologies; and conducting market and policy research to identify and quantify critical inputs and assumptions for energy service and behind-the-meter energy technology forecasts. They will also lead the team's efforts to explore large sets of energy technology, customer energy usage, customer behavior and customer demographics data to reveal insights that define the key inputs and assumptions in PG&E's energy demand forecasts. Finally, the analyst will support the team's efforts to continuously improve the efficiency, quality and client service around its forecasts.
The successful candidate will embody a balance of analytic capability, ambition, intellectual curiosity, structured thinking, written and verbal communication skills, and team-orientation.
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. We would not anticipate that the individual hired into this role would land at or near the top half of the range described below, but the decision will be dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.
A reasonable salary range is:
Bay Area Minimum: $118,000.00
Bay Area Maximum: $188,000.00
&/OR
California Minimum: $112,000.00
California Maximum: $179,000.00
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.
Job Responsibilities
Qualifications
Minimum:
Desired:
Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Oakland
Department Overview
The position will reside within the PG&E's System Planning organization. System Planning is part of PG&E's Engineering, Planning and Strategy organization. The vision for System Planning is to lead the way in inventing California's new clean-energy future. The team's mission is to provide forecasts and answer planning questions three-to-thirty years in the future. The work is informed by analytics using an integrated planning approach, considering California's and PG&E's electric system, gas system, advanced load management and bulk generation resources. System Planning provides support for PG&E's commercial and regulatory activities and important linkages to PG&E's policy, strategy, investment, and finance plans.
Position Summary
PG&E is seeking a highly motivated Analyst with a unique combination of subject matter expertise in distributed energy resources, retail choice, analytics, data management and visualization, and the regulated utility business environment.
The California energy landscape is rapidly evolving in response to the convergence of policy, technology and customer trends that are driving toward a cleaner and more decentralized energy future. The analyst will be part of a dynamic and innovative team responsible for quantifying the adoption and impact of emerging customer energy choices (e.g., load serving entity, rooftop solar energy, energy storage, electric vehicles, microgrids, energy efficiency and building electrification). The team's forecasts are critical inputs in PG&E's development long-term business strategies, energy supply portfolios and infrastructure plans.
The analyst will support PG&E planning stakeholders and senior leaders by building and implementing systems to document, summarize and visually communicate key forecasts, and planning and operating metrics. The analyst will also develop innovative and data-driven forecasts of customer energy choices by identifying emerging energy delivery trends and behind-the-meter energy technologies; and conducting market and policy research to identify and quantify critical inputs and assumptions for energy service and behind-the-meter energy technology forecasts. They will also lead the team's efforts to explore large sets of energy technology, customer energy usage, customer behavior and customer demographics data to reveal insights that define the key inputs and assumptions in PG&E's energy demand forecasts. Finally, the analyst will support the team's efforts to continuously improve the efficiency, quality and client service around its forecasts.
The successful candidate will embody a balance of analytic capability, ambition, intellectual curiosity, structured thinking, written and verbal communication skills, and team-orientation.
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. We would not anticipate that the individual hired into this role would land at or near the top half of the range described below, but the decision will be dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.
A reasonable salary range is:
Bay Area Minimum: $118,000.00
Bay Area Maximum: $188,000.00
&/OR
California Minimum: $112,000.00
California Maximum: $179,000.00
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.
Job Responsibilities
- Build and implement systems to create documentation that provide transparency and linkages between PG&E's strategies, operating plans and the financial forecasts: Collaborate with forecasting and planning teams within PG&E to compile key forecasts, and planning and operating metrics. This documentation will be used throughout PG&E and by the senior leadership team. The documentation includes information for electric sales and generation, natural gas throughput, investment plans, technology costs and energy prices.
- Creating High-value Forecasts: Develop forecasts of customer choices for energy delivery and behind the meter resources that can be leveraged to generate high-value business insights. Identifying, frame and execute analyses related to the forecast inputs, assumptions, and scenarios. Create analytic tools in consultation with team members. Conduct systematic assessments of the energy technology landscape. Communicate results.
- Improving Forecasting Tools and Processes: Drive continuous improvement to forecasting to increase the efficiency, persuasiveness, and pervasiveness of energy resource forecasting. Research and document forecasting best practices, client use-cases, product specifications, analytical methods, processes, and platforms for production and delivery of forecasts.
Qualifications
Minimum:
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Economics, Business or related disciplines
- 6 years of relevant work experience
- Demonstrated experience performing energy-related quantitative analysis
Desired:
- Advanced degree in a relevant discipline
- Demonstrated project, process or product management experience
- Work experience at electric or natural gas utilities, independent power producers, wholesale energy market participants, regulatory agencies, consulting firms, or similar organizations
- Advanced understanding of PG&E's business model, including interdependencies and interrelationships of the electric and natural gas industries and supply/demand-side businesses
- Strong familiarity with California regulatory context for investor-owned utilities
- Demonstrated experience communicating complex information clearly, concisely, and effectively to officer-level stakeholders and external public policy makers
- Working knowledge of advanced applications programming: Python, R, SQL, SAS, Stata, Matlab or other data analysis/statistical software
Salary : $118,000 - $188,000
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