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Get Access To All JobsRequisition ID: 172387
Job Category: Human Resources
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Business Unit: People
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Fremont
Department Summary
The People team delivers expertise, resources, and solutions to positively impact our coworkers, contract coworkers, company, partners, and hometowns so that PG&E can achieve amazing outcomes. We are an enthusiastic and collaborative group of professionals who strive to improve our work, our results, our skills, and our company. The People team provides the tools and the guidance our coworkers need to be their best and find joy at work.
The People organization is comprised of the following groups: Benefits; Compensation; Diversity Equity Inclusion & Belonging; People Partners; Labor Relations; People Development & Growth; People Solutions; Talent Acquisition & Mobility (Recruiting); Workforces Development; and the Enterprise Change Office.
We believe that People are our business. Trust is the foundation of everything we do. Together, we partner to deliver a joyful coworker experience.
We are seeking a dynamic Regional People Partner to join our team. As our Regional People Partner, you will play a pivotal role in shaping a workplace environment where every coworker feels known, loved, and proud. You will be at the heart of our organization, driving initiatives that enhance business outcomes, while creating a joyful coworker experience.
Imagine being a strategic partner, collaborating with leaders to align practices with our business goals – in this role, you will leverage your expertise to foster a culture of innovation, support meaningful change, and champion coworker well-being. Your insights will directly influence talent strategies, ensuring we attract and retain top talent while cultivating an inclusive environment where coworkers thrive.
If you are passionate about making a difference and want to be part of a dynamic team that values collaboration and growth in a forward-thinking utility company, we would love to hear from you! Together, we will create a workplace that energizes our teams and drives exceptional results.
Reporting Relationship
The Regional People Partner will report directly to Director, People Partner as a high-level individual contributor.
Position Summary
The Senior Regional People Partner is responsible for aligning business objectives with employees and management in designated regions and business units. You will formulate partnerships across the People function to deliver value-added service to management and employees that reflects the business objectives of the organization. You will maintain an effective level of business literacy about the region and business unit's priorities, its midrange plans, its culture, and its competition.
This position is responsible for providing advice and counsel to coworkers and leaders and will lead People program delivery to specified clients, including Performance Management, Pay Planning, Succession Planning, and a strong focus on Employee Relations, and Labor Relations. The Regional People Partner will be in our service centers or other locations, working directly with our coworkers to create the desired work environment.
The role is hybrid working from your remote office and in-person at the PG&E office in (Pleasanton, Fremont, Hayward), CA. based on business needs.
Job Responsibilities
This role requires a strategic thinker with a strong business acumen and the ability to foster cross-functional relationships across the organization. The ideal candidate will demonstrate competencies in the following areas:
Business Acumen: Leverage industry and organizational knowledge to align people’s strategies with business goals. Understand financial metrics to inform people of decision-making, support organizational sustainability, and drive waste elimination.
Strategic Partnership: Provide consultative problem-solving to address complex organizational challenges. Ensuring people’s projects are aligned with the organization’s strategic objectives. Identify and mitigate risks associated with people’s initiatives.
Relationship Management: Foster collaboration and networking across departments to enhance organizational cohesion. Be a persuasive influencer to advocate for people’s initiatives and drive change.
Data Judgment: Interpret and analyze people’s metrics to inform strategic decisions. Craft compelling data storytelling to communicate insights and recommendations to internal and external stakeholders. Apply foundational data analytics to optimize people’s processes and outcomes. Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret people’s metrics and drive data-informed decisions.
Talent Optimization: Insights and knowledge of the talent within the organization, ability to build and strengthen a talent pipeline, ensuring skills and capabilities for the future. Including talent management, organizational design, and development. Implement strategic people practices that enhance coworker experience and drive engagement. Drive change management initiatives to support organizational transformation. Demonstrate technological savviness to leverage people tools and platforms effectively. Familiarity with HR technology trends and tools for optimizing people’s processes.
Agility: Foster a growth mindset within the People team and across the organization. Encourage innovation and iteration in people’s practices anticipating and adapting to evolving business needs. Capacity to adapt and a commitment to continuous improvement and innovation.
Qualifications
Minimum:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
- 6 years of Labor relations and/or HR generalist experience
- Must possess a valid driver's license and be willing to travel as required within the PG&E service territory
Desired knowledge skills and abilities:
- Demonstrated experience working with senior company leaders, including demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and influence leaders at the executive level
- Experience working in a large organization (preferably over 1,000 employees)
- Experience working in a unionized environment
- Experience completing investigations
- Experience managing employee performance, conduct, and discipline issues
- Strong understanding of employment laws and regulations, especially California labor laws
- Familiarity with HR best practices and industry standards
- Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
- Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals
- Ability to influence and lead behavior changes
- Providing direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done
Compensation
PG&E provides 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 between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors. This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.
A reasonable salary range is:
Bay Area Minimum: $ 102,000.00
Bay Area Midpoint: $ 127,000.00
Bay Area Maximum: $152,000.00
Requisition ID: 172387
Job Category: Human Resources
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Business Unit: People
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Fremont
Department Summary
The People team delivers expertise, resources, and solutions to positively impact our coworkers, contract coworkers, company, partners, and hometowns so that PG&E can achieve amazing outcomes. We are an enthusiastic and collaborative group of professionals who strive to improve our work, our results, our skills, and our company. The People team provides the tools and the guidance our coworkers need to be their best and find joy at work.
The People organization is comprised of the following groups: Benefits; Compensation; Diversity Equity Inclusion & Belonging; People Partners; Labor Relations; People Development & Growth; People Solutions; Talent Acquisition & Mobility (Recruiting); Workforces Development; and the Enterprise Change Office.
We believe that People are our business. Trust is the foundation of everything we do. Together, we partner to deliver a joyful coworker experience.
We are seeking a dynamic Regional People Partner to join our team. As our Regional People Partner, you will play a pivotal role in shaping a workplace environment where every coworker feels known, loved, and proud. You will be at the heart of our organization, driving initiatives that enhance business outcomes, while creating a joyful coworker experience.
Imagine being a strategic partner, collaborating with leaders to align practices with our business goals – in this role, you will leverage your expertise to foster a culture of innovation, support meaningful change, and champion coworker well-being. Your insights will directly influence talent strategies, ensuring we attract and retain top talent while cultivating an inclusive environment where coworkers thrive.
If you are passionate about making a difference and want to be part of a dynamic team that values collaboration and growth in a forward-thinking utility company, we would love to hear from you! Together, we will create a workplace that energizes our teams and drives exceptional results.
Reporting Relationship
The Regional People Partner will report directly to Director, People Partner as a high-level individual contributor.
Position Summary
The Senior Regional People Partner is responsible for aligning business objectives with employees and management in designated regions and business units. You will formulate partnerships across the People function to deliver value-added service to management and employees that reflects the business objectives of the organization. You will maintain an effective level of business literacy about the region and business unit's priorities, its midrange plans, its culture, and its competition.
This position is responsible for providing advice and counsel to coworkers and leaders and will lead People program delivery to specified clients, including Performance Management, Pay Planning, Succession Planning, and a strong focus on Employee Relations, and Labor Relations. The Regional People Partner will be in our service centers or other locations, working directly with our coworkers to create the desired work environment.
The role is hybrid working from your remote office and in-person at the PG&E office in (Pleasanton, Fremont, Hayward), CA. based on business needs.
Job Responsibilities
This role requires a strategic thinker with a strong business acumen and the ability to foster cross-functional relationships across the organization. The ideal candidate will demonstrate competencies in the following areas:
Business Acumen: Leverage industry and organizational knowledge to align people’s strategies with business goals. Understand financial metrics to inform people of decision-making, support organizational sustainability, and drive waste elimination.
Strategic Partnership: Provide consultative problem-solving to address complex organizational challenges. Ensuring people’s projects are aligned with the organization’s strategic objectives. Identify and mitigate risks associated with people’s initiatives.
Relationship Management: Foster collaboration and networking across departments to enhance organizational cohesion. Be a persuasive influencer to advocate for people’s initiatives and drive change.
Data Judgment: Interpret and analyze people’s metrics to inform strategic decisions. Craft compelling data storytelling to communicate insights and recommendations to internal and external stakeholders. Apply foundational data analytics to optimize people’s processes and outcomes. Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret people’s metrics and drive data-informed decisions.
Talent Optimization: Insights and knowledge of the talent within the organization, ability to build and strengthen a talent pipeline, ensuring skills and capabilities for the future. Including talent management, organizational design, and development. Implement strategic people practices that enhance coworker experience and drive engagement. Drive change management initiatives to support organizational transformation. Demonstrate technological savviness to leverage people tools and platforms effectively. Familiarity with HR technology trends and tools for optimizing people’s processes.
Agility: Foster a growth mindset within the People team and across the organization. Encourage innovation and iteration in people’s practices anticipating and adapting to evolving business needs. Capacity to adapt and a commitment to continuous improvement and innovation.
Qualifications
Minimum:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
- 6 years of Labor relations and/or HR generalist experience
- Must possess a valid driver's license and be willing to travel as required within the PG&E service territory
Desired knowledge skills and abilities:
- Demonstrated experience working with senior company leaders, including demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and influence leaders at the executive level
- Experience working in a large organization (preferably over 1,000 employees)
- Experience working in a unionized environment
- Experience completing investigations
- Experience managing employee performance, conduct, and discipline issues
- Strong understanding of employment laws and regulations, especially California labor laws
- Familiarity with HR best practices and industry standards
- Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
- Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals
- Ability to influence and lead behavior changes
- Providing direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done
Compensation
PG&E provides 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 between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors. This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.
A reasonable salary range is:
Bay Area Minimum: $ 102,000.00
Bay Area Midpoint: $ 127,000.00
Bay Area Maximum: $152,000.00
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Search Energy Jobs in CaliforniaEnergy OPT Sponsorship Jobs in California: Frequently Asked Questions
Which energy companies sponsor F-1 OPT visas in California?
California-based energy employers that have historically hired F-1 OPT candidates include Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), Southern California Edison, Chevron, Shell, Bloom Energy, and SunPower. Renewable energy developers and grid technology companies in the Bay Area and Los Angeles region also participate in OPT hiring, particularly for engineering and analytical roles where recent graduates meet specific technical requirements.
Which cities in California have the most energy F-1 OPT sponsorship jobs?
San Jose and the broader Bay Area concentrate the most clean energy and grid technology employers, particularly in solar and battery storage. Los Angeles is a hub for utility-scale renewable developers and energy efficiency firms. Sacramento attracts candidates interested in policy-adjacent technical roles given its proximity to state energy regulators, while San Diego has a growing cluster of clean technology and microgrid companies.
What types of energy roles typically qualify for F-1 OPT sponsorship?
Roles that commonly qualify include electrical engineering, power systems analysis, energy data analytics, grid modeling, environmental engineering, and renewable energy project development. California's emphasis on clean energy transition also creates openings in battery storage research, EV infrastructure engineering, and sustainability operations. Most qualifying positions require a degree directly related to the job function, which is a standard F-1 OPT eligibility requirement.
How do I find energy F-1 OPT sponsorship jobs in California?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for international students searching for F-1 OPT-eligible roles and filters listings by visa type and industry. For California energy jobs, you can search by the Energy category and filter to F-1 OPT to see employers actively open to OPT candidates. Migrate Mate surfaces roles from companies with a track record of sponsoring international students, which saves significant time compared to manually vetting listings.
Are there California-specific considerations for F-1 OPT candidates in the energy sector?
California's aggressive renewable energy mandates and its Independent System Operator (CAISO) create technical roles not common in other states, which can benefit OPT candidates with specialized coursework in power systems or grid operations. State environmental regulations also drive demand for candidates with environmental science or engineering backgrounds. Because OPT authorization is time-limited, beginning your job search well before your program end date is particularly important in a competitive market like California.