• Oversees Transmission Project Management by providing strategic direction for 1000 -2000 capital projects. • Responsible for the overall management of scope, schedule, and cost. • Building relationships across the organization with stakeholders in the Construction, Test, SCADA, Automation, and Protection departments. • Identifies gaps in existing processes and drives process improvement. • Monitors the overall Capital Budget for Electric Transmission Engineering spend. • Reviews planned rate versus actual rates and makes adjustments as needed. • Holds weekly conference calls or other types of recurring meetings to check budget actual versus target. • Manages Transmission Engineering to drive improvements in efficiency and quality by driving improvement and deconstructing and restructuring processes when necessary, so that they fit the work at hand. • Strategically plans resource allocation and utilization in engineering teams. • Looks at projected workload versus existing internal resources and makes appropriate contracting and staffing allocation decisions. • Leads process improvement initiatives and projects internally to the department and participates broadly in related initiatives across the line of business. • Benchmarks internally and externally to PG&E on project management and engineering practices. • May present papers at project management and engineering conferences or participate in other industry activities. • Manages staff to accomplish results through effective recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, and rewards and recognition. • Develops and manages department budget regularly monitoring expenses against forecast, providing explanation or justification for budget items and/or variances.