Energy Trading Scheduling Senior Specialist

Southern California Edison (SCE); Rosemead (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison (SCE) is seeking an Energy Trading Scheduling Senior Specialist to manage renewable and conventional generation within CAISO markets, ensuring least-cost dispatch and regulatory compliance in a 24x7 environment.

The role involves submitting bids, analyzing data, coordinating scheduling, and communicating with trading counterparts while protecting data and assets; on-site at Rosemead, CA with potential time at Irvine, CA.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in wholesale energy markets.
• Experience acting as Scheduling Coordinator or similar in CAISO or balancing area.
• Familiar with tariffs, NERC procedures and BA software.
• Proficient in Excel and data analysis for scheduling decisions.

Responsibilities

• Receive and communicate dispatch instructions, verify compliance.
• Submit bids and schedules into ISO systems and analyze data.
• Prepare reports and present to executive management as needed.
• Coordinate scheduling and balancing for contracted volumes hourly.
• Protect sensitive data and ensure regulatory compliance.

Skills

Wholesale energy markets

Scheduling coordination

CAISO procedures

Data analysis

Microsoft Excel

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

ADS

SIBR

CMRI

BSAP

OMS

CIDI

SCADA

EMS

GMS

Job description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become an Energy Trading Scheduling Senior Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll be part of a team responsible for managing SCE’s diverse fleet of renewable & conventional generation, intertie, and demand side resources while ensuring least cost dispatch and regulatory compliance in a dynamic 24 x 7 operational environment. In this role you will work rotating 12-hour shifts and perform all scheduling coordinator functions in the California Independent System Operator’s (CAISO) wholesale power market and the CAISO regional Expanded Day Ahead Market (EDAM). You will also be responsible for purchasing and selling energy and transmission as needed to serve our customer’s energy needs. As an Energy Trading Scheduling Senior Specialist, 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

• Receives and communicates dispatch instructions and verifies that they are followed.
• Participates in producing key transaction reports, ensuring adherence to the Company's financial and risk policies.
• Submits bids and schedules into multiple ISO systems.
• Analyzes data to regularly advise on optimal asset scheduling while maintaining compliance and safety standards.
• Assists in the development of high-level presentations presented to executive management.
• Produce transaction reports ensuring compliance with all regulatory rules and internal risk requirements. Ensures all notifications and scheduling are timely and accurate.
• Reviews and analyzes nominations in a timely manner and ensures results are in compliance with policies and tariffs.
• Schedules delivery and receipt of contracted volumes with trading counterparts along with ensuring hourly balancing for all positions.
• Adjusts the daily energy forecast and presents balancing transactions to owners for trader execution.
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in wholesale energy markets, resource outages or plant operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience acting as a Scheduling Coordinator in CAISO or other balancing area, with ability to follow standardized instructions and procedures such as tariffs, business process manuals, NERC operating procedures, and internal operating processes while utilizing the full suite of BA software applications such as ADS, SIBR, CMRI, BSAP, OMS, and CIDI.
• Experience with generation dispatching, energy scheduling, energy trading, transmission purchasing, and e-tags via software, telephone, radio, computer, and internet-based systems.
• Experience with control system software such as SCADA, EMS, or GMS.
• Experience with real time trading and a track record of solid decision-making in the real time market.
• Strong computer skills to include proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite of products with emphasis in Excel.
• Ability to perform effectively as part of a team as well as independently in an environment with frequent workload, process, procedure, and system changes.
• Able to handle simultaneous activities and establish priorities to meet operational and compliance requirements while retaining the operational awareness to adjust priorities as circumstances determine.
• Able to analyze & interpret operational data, exercise discernment, draw conclusions and take action even when the data is incomplete or ambiguous.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills including the ability to formulate and communicate operational directives and maintain a written log of all significant activities.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with clients, peers, management, support staff, and vendors to successfully meet department objectives.

Additional Information

• This position’s work mode is on-site. The employee will report to an SCE facility or in the field location. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
• 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.
• The primary work location for this position is Rosemead, CA. However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at Irvine, CA.
• This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation. Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.
• This position will work rotating 12-hour shifts.
• Relocation may apply to this position.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world. 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 [phone] and select option 2.