Compliance & Quality (Energy Efficiency) Senior Advisor

Southern California Edison (SCE); Irwindale (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Equal Opportunity Employer benefits

Job summary

Southern California Edison (SCE) is seeking a skilled Compliance & Quality (Energy Efficiency) Senior Advisor to drive the effectiveness of energy efficiency portfolios. This role involves leading compliance strategy and ensuring that programs meet regulatory requirements.

Candidates should have a minimum of ten years in compliance and regulatory spaces along with pertinent educational qualifications. The work model is hybrid, requiring attendance at one of SCE's facilities for part of the work week.

Qualifications

• Ten or more years of experience with regulatory filings/proceedings and compliance standards.
• Ability to manage multiple projects independently.
• Experience in utility or regulated industry.

Responsibilities

• Develop business requirements and identify strategies for risk mitigation.
• Facilitate training and ensure compliance remediation.
• Conduct audit reviews for compliance with agency standards.
• Lead regulatory report submissions.
• Advise on compliance with changing regulations.

Skills

Regulatory filings/proceedings

Compliance standards

Organizational skills

Project management

Written communication

Verbal communication

Artificial Intelligence

Energy Regulation knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering, business, regulatory policy, or related discipline

Job description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Compliance & Quality (Energy Efficiency) Senior Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this role, you’ll drive the integrity and effectiveness of energy efficiency portfolios by leading controls, compliance, and quality strategy—ensuring programs align with regulatory requirements while delivering measurable, defensible results. Partner across regulatory, legal, and implementation teams to proactively identify risks, strengthen oversight frameworks, and elevate program performance at scale.

Incident Management Team Expected Participation: Employees are expected to support emergency response and/or business continuity efforts, including readiness to serve on an Incident Management Team (IMT) when needed. Employees will participate in an on-call rotation (approximately every four to six weeks), to support IMT activations during emergency events. IMT assignments may differ from an individual’s regular responsibilities.

As a Compliance & Quality (Energy Efficiency) Senior Advisor, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

• Develop business requirements, perform gap analysis, and identify strategies for controls and risk mitigation.
• Facilitate training and ensure effective remediation of potential non‑compliant situations.
• Support legislative strategy and legislative language development to advance or defend company positions.
• Conduct audit reviews to ensure that the company stays compliant with the policies and standards enforced by relevant agencies.
• Identify significant regulatory challenges and commercial opportunities for the current and future regulatory environments.
• Advise and counsel on new consumer products and product structures and compliance with changing regulatory rules and varying political environment.
• Oversee and implement the organization’s compliance reporting activities.
• Lead regulatory report submission for the company.
• Provide guidance to cross‑functional organizations on preventative measures for corrective action responses.
• Ensure the protection of all physical, financial, and cybersecurity assets, and manage private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other highly sensitive information with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ten or more years of experience with regulatory filings/proceedings and compliance standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering, business, regulatory policy, audit, or other related discipline.
• Experience with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• Utility or regulated industry experience.
• Knowledge of Energy Regulation and/or Energy Efficiency compliance standards.
• Outstanding organizational and project management skills including presenting to senior management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate compliance interpretation to management.
• Ability to independently manage multiple projects and build positive working relationships, even under challenging circumstances (time constraints, staffing limitations).

Additional Information

• This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at [e-mail] or (626) 302‑3456 and select option 2.