Program Manager

Campos EPC

Program Manager II | Wildfire Mitigation Support

Location: San Diego, CA | Hybrid, 3 days onsite per week

Duration: 2-year ongoing contract

Pay Rate: 70/hr-80/hr

Position Summary

Campos EPC is seeking a Program Manager II to support wildfire mitigation initiatives and regulatory compliance programs. This individual will independently manage medium-scale, moderately complex projects while partnering with technical, operations, regulatory, legal, data, analytics, and management teams.

The Project Manager will be responsible for translating regulatory and project requirements into actionable plans, coordinating stakeholders, managing schedules and deliverables, and ensuring all work is accurate, timely, well-documented, and defensible from a regulatory standpoint

Key Responsibilities

• Manage project scope, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, action items, stakeholder responsibilities, and completion criteria.
• Lead cross-functional projects involving technical, operations, regulatory, legal, analytics, data, and management teams.
• Translate client and regulatory requirements into clear project plans, assignments, timelines, and deliverables.
• Track project risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, and outstanding stakeholder inputs.
• Lead working sessions, stakeholder reviews, and status meetings to keep projects on schedule.
• Coordinate QA/QC reviews to ensure deliverables are accurate, complete, consistent, and compliant with regulatory requirements.
• Prepare project status reports, presentations, analyses, decision materials, and closeout documentation.
• Identify gaps or project risks and develop practical resolution and escalation plans.

Wildfire Mitigation & Regulatory Support

• Lead assigned Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP) initiatives from initial requirements through planning, data collection, stakeholder review, filing support, and closeout.
• Translate WMP guidelines, regulatory decisions, evaluation criteria, and filing requirements into actionable workplans and requirements.
• Coordinate WMP narratives, metrics, forecasts, analyses, regulatory responses, presentations, tables, appendices, certifications, and supporting documentation.
• Coordinate regulatory data and document requests involving Energy Safety, CPUC, independent evaluators, and interveners
• Support AIR, QDR, WMP filings, audits, independent evaluator reviews, workshops, corrective actions, and other compliance activities
• Review program data, historical submissions, forecasts, source documents, and performance information to identify inconsistencies or potential compliance risks.
• Maintain detailed trackers for regulatory requests, milestones, deliverables, decisions, risks, issues, comments, and action items.
• Coordinate records and supporting evidence needed to substantiate regulatory reporting, including source data, procedures, work products, photographs, and calculations.
• Support meetings and workshops with regulators, SMEs, and external reviewers.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Management, or a related field . Equivalent professional experience may be considered.
• 5–6+ years of project management experience within utilities, construction, infrastructure, civil, IT, regulatory, or similar environments.
• PMP certification required.
• Demonstrated experience independently managing cross-functional projects with defined schedules, milestones, dependencies, and time-sensitive deliverables.
• Strong experience managing project documentation, reporting, stakeholder coordination, risks, and deliverables.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and SharePoint

Preferred Qualifications

• Utility industry experience, particularly within electric utilities.
• Experience with wildfire mitigation, regulatory compliance, CPUC requirements, audits, risk management, asset management, or infrastructure programs
• Professional Engineer ( PE ) license.
• Experience with Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, Power BI, or similar project management/reporting tools
• Experience supporting regulatory filings, data requests, audits, or compliance documentation.