Gas Supply Manager jobs in Santa Maria, CA

Requisition ID # 154070 

Job Category: Procurement / Supply Chain 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Supply Chain/Materials

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: San Luis Obispo

Department Overview

Supply Chain is responsible for enterprise-wide strategic sourcing with suppliers, they are stewards of over $11B annual spend with suppliers, manage inventory, warehousing, and logistics, ensure material supplier quality assurance, and owns supplier diversity and supplier responsibility programs.

Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) safely and reliably produces electricity that is environmentally responsible and cost effective for our customers and shareholders.  DCPP's mission is to be the leading nuclear power plant in the country and to: Inspire and positively influence the industry through our safe, reliable, and excellent operational performance. Embrace new ideas to continuously improve our plant and our work environment. Proactively learn from ourselves and others. Enrich our communities and the environment, increasing the public's trust and confidence in nuclear power.

Position Summary

Develop short and long term strategies direction for all spend categories within portfolio and all Supply Chain activities for both operational and decommissioning efforts at Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Diablo Canyon Independent Spent Fuel Installation and Humboldt Bay Independent Spent Fuel Installation. Assure all planned and emergent activities requiring parts and/or services are managed through the Supply Chain determining timeliness, value, cost and quality, as appropriate. Develop strategies and plans to drive greatest total cost of ownership while ensuring excellent service. Achieves savings, safety, quality, productivity and customer satisfaction targets.
 
Directly manages Nuclear Service Contract Procurement Supervisor and Category Leaders (direct and contract).
 
You will be required to obtain and maintain employment and unescorted access at DCPP, requiring you to pass a drug and alcohol screen, a security background check, psychological screen, computer-based training, and be subject to random drug and alcohol screening; necessitating you live within a 90 minute response perimeter to DCPP. 
 
The position is primarily located at the offsite leased Supply Chain facility located at 4e340 Old Santa Fe Rd; however, also may be located at the Nuclear Power Plant. Highly secure work location subject to personal search daily. Much of the time located in an office environment. Work may require access to the Outage Control Center and Operations Control room and various other security protected locations. Warehouse location requires personal protected equipment at all times as do many of the protected area access locations.
 
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:
California Minimum: $122,000
California Maximum: $207,000
 

Job Responsibilities

• Oversees contract spend across multiple spend categories.
• Reviews and signs purchase orders and contracts for up to $10M as part of procurement approval process.
• Works with customers to assess business requirements and develop strategic plans for ongoing client nuclear supply chain needs.
• Partners with lines of businesses to develop strategic sourcing strategies and operating plans to reduce cost while maintaining a high level of service, supplier diversity and environmental performance.
• Assures contract bidding process is utilized or documented and aligned with the rest of Supply Chain.
• Participates in appropriate professional and trade organization/training programs to monitor industry best practices, trends and emerging technologies and programs. Shares best practices and adopt best practices when practical.
• Works with suppliers to implement continuous cost and quality improvements. Measures performance with supplier performance management tools. Establishes service level agreements to hold suppliers accountable for performance.
• Ensures nuclear quality is not compromised. Sends out notifications to other nuclear plants of identified problems and implemented solutions.
• Assures all required programs are administered within requirements such as SOX compliance, financial controls, and nuclear quality.
• Ensures top performance by benchmarking other nuclear plants and doing self-assessments.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain management or related field
• 8 years of total Supply Chain experience or 4 years of nuclear industry experience and 4 years of Supply Chain experience.

Desired:

• MBA
• Six Sigma certification
• Procurement certification from one or more recognized institutions, such as ISM, APICS, NCMA, ASCM
• Proficiency in successfully executing your leadership vision (you must be able to define the vision, strategy, and tactical plan for your organization, and then effectively communicate it to your team in a way that engages and focuses them around a common goal)
• Advanced SAP/ARIBA proficiency  
• Nuclear Plant experience, Project Management experience, Contract Management experience, or Utility industry experience
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams
• Ability to identify and resolve problems and implementation barriers
• Knowledge of Nuclear Industry and Operating standards
• Knowledge of Nuclear Procurement requirements 10CFR50 Appendix B