GIS Tech Spec, Specialist

Southern California Edison; Pomona, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison in Pomona, CA, is seeking a GIS Tech Spec, Specialist to maintain and update electric asset data in SAP and other systems. You will edit records, validate data accuracy, and collaborate with teams to ensure timely and precise record management while supporting data integrity initiatives.

You will interpret geospatial data, perform quality checks, and help drive improvements in asset data processes in a hybrid work model based in California.

Qualifications

• Three or more years of experience in GIS and/or analyzing data.
• Bachelor degree in Business with an emphasis on Data Analytics.
• Experience reading and interpreting maps, field notes or surveying materials.

Responsibilities

• Interpret and analyze geospatial data from source systems and maps.
• Conduct data quality checks and assist in data remediation projects.
• Support site selection decisions using GIS tools and techniques.
• Generate and maintain GIS-based operation maps and detailed asset data.
• Develop procedures to improve mapping standards and GIS processes.
• Ensure data integrity and support data governance initiatives.
• Work in a hybrid setting reporting to a California facility and coordinating with internal teams.

Skills

GIS experience

Data analysis

SAP experience

Education

Bachelor degree in Business with Data Analytics emphasis

Tools

SAP

Job description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a GIS Tech Spec, Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll be responsible for maintaining and updating electric asset data in source systems (such as SAP). Duties include editing asset records, researching and validating data accuracy, and collaborating with internal teams to ensure timely and precise record management. Also, ensures compliance with SCE's data quality standards through systematic checks and remediation efforts while supporting initiatives to improve data integrity and resolve systemic issues. Adapts to evolving business needs and contributes to continuous improvement of asset data processes.

As a GIS Tech Spec, 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

• Conducts interpretation and analysis tasks to extract relevant information from geospatial data sources.
• Participates in data resolution initiatives and special projects for asset data remediation, performing data quality control checks and process documentation updates.
• Assists in the site selection processes by evaluating potential project sites and assessing their feasibility using GIS tools and techniques.
• Generates and maintains GIS-generated operations maps, performing in-depth analysis on geospatial asset data.
• Participates in the development and implementation of tools supporting quality control tracking and reporting.
• Participates in the designs, development and implementation of procedures to improve efficiency of operations and processes associated with mapping standards and GIS tools.
• Updates and maintains the company's facilities maps, detailed records in the GIS, and geospatial data on desktop, mobile and cloud data storage applications.
• Supports construction-based activities including field investigations and GPS data collection.
• Supports data remediation efforts by performing desktop analysis, initial quality control, updating data, and developing methods and procedures to ensure existing GIS data and mapping products are accurate and meet acceptable standards.
• 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

• Three or more years of experience in GIS and/or analyzing data.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience reading and interpreting any of the following: work order maps, field notes, civil drawings, land descriptions, survey drawings, or other mapping materials.
• Experience using relational databases or SAP to look-up information and resolve data related SAP or Mapping questions.
• Ability to safety work independently and perform responsibilities as assigned.
• Project management experience, including ability to collaborate with clients to gather project requirements and effectively plan, coordinate, track and meet project deadlines.
• Ability to produce clear technical documentation and communicate technical approaches to concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Bachelor degree in Business with an emphasis on Data Analytics.

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.
• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
• The primary work location for this position is Pomona, CA (Innovation Village 1).
• Relocation does not apply to this position.
• 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.

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.