Inspection Program Analyst

APR Consulting, Inc.; Pomona (CA); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

APR Consulting, Inc. is seeking an Inspection Program Analyst to support scoping, planning, and execution for internal and external inspection teams across Distribution and Transmission programs in Pomona, CA.

The role includes detailed inspections in varied areas, grid patrols, infrared scanning, and pole evaluations, with a hybrid on-site schedule. The position requires coordinating data, schedules, and reporting, plus managing financial aspects of the program.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or Equivalent required.
• Experience with data management, data querying, and report development.
• Ability to engage multiple SMEs and manage stakeholder buy-in.
• Experience tracking issues from identification to resolution.
• Experience with dashboard development and data visualization.

Responsibilities

• Support scoping and planning for internal/external inspection teams across multiple programs.
• Manage schedules, contractor deliverables, QA, risk assessment, and final inspection results.
• Lead meetings through all inspection phases and prepare progress reports.
• Coordinate communications among contractors and internal stakeholders to support inspections and data processing.
• Oversee the inspection program's financial planning and execution.
• Develop and refine scoping packages and change control logs.
• Prepare weekly performance, trackers, and access-related documentation.
• Use SAP, InspectApp, SAS, Power BI to identify data discrepancies and trends.
• Ensure inspections populate dashboards and communicate any sync issues to IT.

Skills

Data management

Time management

Stakeholder collaboration

Issue tracking

Dashboard development

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Tools

MS Office

SAS

SAP

PowerBI

SQL

Python

Snowflake

ArcGIS

Job description

An electric utility client is looking for anInspection Program Analyst who will be responsible for supporting scoping and planning for internal and external inspection teams supporting multiple Distribution and Transmission programs, including detailed inspections in high-fire and non-high-fire areas, annual grid patrols, streetlight patrol surveys, infrared scanning, and intrusive pole evaluations.

Position:Inspection Program Analyst
Location:Pomona, CA 91768 – Hybrid: Onsite M & Tu
Pay Rate: $38.60/hr. on W2
Duration: 12 months or longer
Schedule:1stshift, M-F, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for supporting scoping and planning for internal and external inspection teams supporting multiple Distribution and Transmission programs, including detailed inspections in high-fire and non-high-fire areas, annual grid patrols, streetlight patrol surveys, infrared scanning, and intrusive pole evaluations.
• Key program management, planning, and scheduling responsibilities include:
  • Managing schedules for data collection and processing, contractor deliverables, quality assurance, risk assessment, and final delivery of inspection results.
  • Leading meetings across all phases of the inspection process, from data collection through risk review and distribution.
  • Developing, maintaining, and distributing progress reports covering inspection collection, processing, delivery, quality control, and risk evaluation.
  • Coordinating communications and managing impacts among contractors and internal clients’ stakeholders involved in inspections, data processing, and overall program support.
  • Managing the inspection program’s financial planning and execution.
• Key Scoping & Planning responsibilities include:
  • Scope Refreshes Create scope packages/work orders taking all the necessary steps to ensure accuracy of scope ensuring all appropriate guidelines are met.
  • Collaborate with SP&E and Inspections to improve scoping strategy (e.g., work order bundling, minimizing visits, 12-skip a few, etc.)
  • Maintain and refine lessons learned and change control logs for planning/scoping process.
  • Communicate and meet with stakeholders periodically to ensure feedback obtained and reviewed against existing/future planning efforts (i.e. pain point tracker).
• Key Exception Processing responsibilities include:
  • Preparation of weekly performance report, UTC Tracker, Customer Access Tracker, CROPS & Government Lands Tracker, etc.
  • Mapping Create .kmz and spatial joins in Excel to determine potential access issues related to CROPS, Government Lands, etc.
  • Create work orders for released access issues and send them to vendors with notes regarding appointments, gate codes, special instructions, contact info, etc.
  • Tracking and oversight of constrained inspections to actively mitigate the potential for noncompliant inspections and not meeting risk mitigation commitment.
• Drive down ‘double dip’ inspection charges for access issues.
• Assist in development and monitoring of data management tools to provide more timely and accurate status reporting to management.
• Identify follow-up actions required by various stakeholders in the inspection workflow.
  • An additional resource can take advantage of the data management tools and process improvements being developed, to provide more timely and accurate status reporting to management and to identify followup actions required by various stakeholders in the inspection workflow.
• Key Data Analysis responsibilities include:
  • Performance monitoring and tracking to ensure completion of various scopes on a regular basis.
  • Responsible for running regular weekly/daily reports, ad hoc reports internally and externally as well as any special analysis needed to resolve issues/process improvements, reports related to finance/cost analysis, supporting any issues that arise from contractors or internally such as data discrepancies.
  • Identify data discrepancies through SAP, InspectApp, EZYViewer research using systems like SAS Enterprise, SAS VA, SAP, PowerBi, Python, WiSDM, Snowflake to:
• Report on historical performance (by structure, region, resource, etc.).
• Find sync issues.
• Understand trends in survey results (by inspector, resource, type of inspection)
  • Validate that inspections are populating in dashboards (SAS, Power BI) and follow through to resolution.
  • Communicate with InspectApp/InspectForce team both internal to Inspections and IT regarding sync issues and tracking resolution.

QUALIFICATIONS

• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Knowledge & Skills
  • data management (data structure and controls design, data querying, and report development)
  • time management (manage resolution of work to align with workflow due dates and inspection due dates)
  • comfortable engaging multiple SMEs across multiple organizations, presenting issues and potential solutions, and securing support and/or buyin from stakeholders and support partners
  • project tracking from issue ID, causal analysis, solutioning, through resolution of issue
  • data visualization reporting and dashboard development
• Software Proficiency
  • MS Office Suite, SAS, SAP, PowerBI, SQL, Python, Snowflake
  • SAP experience navigating work orders, maintenance plans, mdocs, FLOC/Equipment data)
  • ArcGIS - experience Joining different visual layers/maps (districts, FLOCs, circuits, hexbins, constrained areas) to create tables of data to work with more effectively

About our client

Our client is one of the largest electric utilities and a longtime leader in renewable energy and energy efficiency in the United States providing electricity for much of Southern California.

About APR:

Since 1980 APR Consulting, Inc. has provided professional recruiting and contingent workforce solutions to a diverse mix of clients, industries, and skill sets nationwide.

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.