Hybrid Principal Quality Assurance Specialist

at Pacific Gas and Electric Company

• Job title: Principal Quality Assurance Specialist
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $128,000 - $190,300 per year
• Degree requirement: High School Diploma
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dublin, United States

About the role

• Quality Assurance Specialist providing QA for Electric Operations, ensuring compliance with regulations and company standards through assessments and reporting on non-conformances.

Responsibilities

• Provides quality assurance (QA) for Electric Operations.
• Performs QA assessments for adherence to compliance requirements, company standards, laws and identified business process requirements to ensure processes, systems, structures and/or components meet required specifications.
• Develops clear and concise written reports to describe non-conformances or process gaps which are used to communicate recommendations for the eliminations of waste or process improvements cross-functionally with various stakeholders.
• May be assigned to support a specific department or area of the business.
• Scope may be limited to one regulatory agency or may include multiple agencies, laws, and regulations applicable to a specific department or area of the business.
• Supports revisions to the compliance and/or risk programs and tools as needed based on changes to applicable laws, regulations, and standards.
• Partners with Subject Matter Experts (SME), Requirement/Risk Owners, and business SMEs to develop controls and metrics to hold the assigned owners accountable for compliance and/or risk management performance.

Requirements

• Minimum: High School or GED-General Educational Development-GED Diploma
• Relevant utility industry experience, 10 years
• CA Class C License, or equivalent
• 30% Field - 70% Office
• Ability to travel up to 50% of working time with occasional overnight stays
• Desired: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business Management or related field or equivalent experience
• 3 years of quality auditing/quality inspection experience
• 7 years equivalent experience in electric infrastructure construction and quality
• 10 years Electric Journeyman utility experience
• ASQ Quality Improvement Associate Certification
• ASQ Quality Inspector/Auditor Certification
• Six Sigma or other Lean/Quality related training
• Advanced data analysis and reporting skills.
• Thorough understanding of regulatory requirements for inspection compliance – GO 165/95/128, ETPM Electric Utility Experience – GO 165 Field Compliance Inspections, Maintenance & Construction, Quality Control, Quality Verification, CIRT, Asset Strategy, Standards, Work Methods and Procedures
• Current or previous PG&E supervisory experience over Compliance Inspector, Linemen, QA or QC Specialist
• Expert knowledge of the requirements of Transmission Preventative Maintenance Manual - ETPM
• Expert level knowledge of assigned area of business including processes and procedures
• Ability to manage project and other group initiatives.
• Highly advanced analytical, program management, and communications skills
• Ability to influence others in order to achieve understanding, acceptance, and commitment to act
• Field experience with electric, gas or power generation construction.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of the electric asset preventative maintenance manual.
• Master knowledge and understanding of relevant federal, state, and local construction codes and standards and PGE construction standards, bulletins and guidance documents.

Benefits

• Eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs