Field Safety Advisor – Orange Region

Southern California Edison; Santa Ana (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison is seeking a Field Safety Advisor for the Orange Region to lead and influence safety programs across multiple organizational units. You will coach front-line leaders, identify risks, and help implement safety plans to protect employees and contractors.

The role demands strong knowledge of CAL/OSHA standards, ability to work with diverse teams, and willingness to travel up to 80% in the SCE territory. Hybrid work mode and CA residency are expected.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of experience in electrical utility craft, safety, or compliance programs, activities, or systems.
• Possess a valid Class C Driver's License.

Responsibilities

• Provides guidance and influence for specific organization's safety programs, policies and procedures; utilizes past experience in craft activities related to the design, construction and maintenance of the electric utility system to support safety functions.
• Builds and maintains effective working relationships to influence safety culture improvement; acts as the safety conscience of the company supporting specific organization's front-line leaders and employees and has understanding of operational needs.
• Collaborates and aligns with specific organizations front-line leaders and employees by partnering with them to identify and mitigate risks that can lead to injuries, serious injuries and fatalities; holds specific organization's front-line leaders and employees accountable for meeting our goal for an injury-free workplace.
• Coaches specific organization's front-line leaders and employees on safety, reinforcing desired behaviors by deepening their knowledge on work processes and guides them in methods that reduce risk.
• Leads by coaching on safety and provides guidance to address unsafe behaviors. Facilitates the resolution of safety issues and concerns by working with front-line leaders and employees.
• Implements the Safety Support Plan, subject matter expert to specific organizations work activities, safety related initiatives and provide customer service to influence, facilitate and align with OU partners.
• Supports Safety Teams, Safety Congresses, OU Partner Staff Meetings, Cause Evaluations, and Policy and Procedure changes that contribute to defining the direction for new processes, standards or safety action plans with an impact on specific organizations results.
• Guides front-line leaders and employee inquiries & informs decisions based on safety rules, policies & industry standards and identifies problems and solutions that may need to be escalated.
• Reviews OU partners safety data, observation outcomes, corrective actions, and validates operational compliance by applying technical expertise and has foundational knowledge of other related disciplines.
• Develops relationships to meet commitments and achieve results; collaborates with front-line leaders and employees to align efforts, integrate work, and exercises judgment to advise and recommend courses of action.
• 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.

Skills

Safety programs

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Safety leadership

Education

Certified Utility Safety Professional (CUSP)

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Southern California Edison is seeking a Field Safety Advisor for the Orange Region to lead and influence safety programs across multiple organizational units. You will coach front-line leaders, identify risks, and help implement safety plans to protect employees and contractors.

The role demands strong knowledge of CAL/OSHA standards, ability to work with diverse teams, and willingness to travel up to 80% in the SCE territory. Hybrid work mode and CA residency are expected.