Grid SCADA Historian Specialist

Edisonrefertalent; Santa Ana (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work schedule

Opportunity for development

Job summary

Join Southern California Edison as a Grid SCADA Historian Specialist in Santa Ana, CA, and contribute to the Clean Energy Revolution. You will manage critical applications and support the Distribution Aveva Pi Historian platform, crucial for data management across the electric grid.

Your role will involve collaborating with teams to ensure system reliability, translating business needs into operational designs, and maintaining the PI Historian system. With a hybrid work model, you'll report to an SCE facility and have the option to work remotely.

Qualifications

• Three or more years of experience in utility, real-time, or enterprise systems.
• Relevant IT or engineering experience focused on data or analytics solutions.
• Development and scripting experience with shell scripts, .NET, and C#.

Responsibilities

• Translate business needs into operational designs.
• Plan and execute structured and unstructured testing.
• Monitor and analyze energy usage data.

Skills

Designing, building, and implementing utility systems

Data analysis

AVEVA PI Systems

Shell scripting

C#

SQL

Tools

SCADA systems

AVEVA PI

Job description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution. Become a Grid SCADA Historian Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this role you’ll be part of a team responsible for maintaining some of the most critical applications across the company. You will be responsible for supporting the Distribution Aveva Pi Historian, a near real‑time data management platform that collects, stores, and visualizes data from industrial processes and equipment across the electric grid. This system provides situational awareness and critical analytics for SCE’s distribution system.

Typical Responsibilities

• Translate business needs into operationally supportable designs.
• Plan and execute both structured and unstructured testing.
• Develop PI analytics and reporting to meet Transmission & Distribution (T&D) client requirements.
• Collaborate with clients, IT teams, and vendors to support the operation and maintenance of the existing PI Historian system.
• Maintain and enhance scripts supporting the GridMS PI Historian environment.
• Ensure all deliverables comply with SCE standards, including regulatory and cybersecurity requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provides operations support, troubleshooting, integration testing and user training. Performs technical analysis to define grid application requirements and updates.
• Monitors and analyzes energy usage data to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for optimization.
• Supports the testing and implementation of new grid application releases.
• Identifies trends and root causes of issues, determines solutions, and makes recommendations for management consideration.
• Updates, monitors and maintains the reliability of the grid application advance apps, and control application.
• Identifies and implements actions plans to prevent future system issues.
• Configures and modifies grid application databases and ensures that all telemetry and controls are available and accurate.
• Provides engineering support to grid operations by resolving complex issues via implementation of state‑of‑the‑art and new technologies.
• Updates, monitors project KPIs and maintains power system modeling, state estimator, contingency analysis and power flow analysis supporting real‑time operations.
• 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 designing, building, implementing, maintaining, and supporting complex utility, real‑time or enterprise systems, or as a user of a utility grid application.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant IT or engineering experience focused on data or analytics solutions.
• Experience implementing or administering AVEVA PI Systems, including its architecture and change management process.
• Development and scripting experience with shell scripts, .NET, and C#.
• Experience with SCADA systems.
• Background in data analysis and report development.
• Experience with SQL.

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!
• 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 Santa Ana, 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 has an option for a 9/80 Alternate Work Schedule or 40 hours/5 days a week.
• Relocation does not 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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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.