Inspections Advisor

Southern California Edison; Pomona (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison (SCE) is hiring an Inspections Advisor in Pomona, CA. You will plan and execute infrared and corona inspection programs across distribution and transmission assets, coordinating with contractors and field teams to ensure audit-ready documentation.

You will lead data-driven inspections, validate deliverables, and manage budgets while supporting wildfire mitigation and grid reliability initiatives. Hybrid schedule and California residency are required.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of experience in energy delivery and distribution.

Responsibilities

• Oversees and executes contracts and agreements in compliance with administrative instructions and regulatory requirements.
• Ensures that permits and easements for facilities are obtained in accordance with all relevant city, county, and additional agencies.
• Develops and implements data management practices to sustain model integrity.
• Directs and coordinates transmission and distribution activities that provide energy services to customers, leading outage management, facility maintenance and capital improvements.
• Obtains management approval for on-going projects and conducts tracking, analysis and resolution of project cost, scope, resource and schedule issues, ensuring commitment on detailed work plans, including contingency and communication plans.
• Retrieves, analyzes and summarizes business, operations, customer and economic data in order to develop business intelligence, optimize effectiveness and predict business outcomes.
• Identifies, analyzes, and interprets trends or patterns and prepares ongoing reports and data visualizations (e.g., charts, dashboards, heat maps) in order to support business decisions.
• Monitors budget variances on a regular basis and prepares and monitors long term budget forecasts.

Skills

Infrared thermography

Corona inspection methods

Data visualization

Stakeholder management

Field coordination with contractors

Tools

SAP

GIS

Job description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become an Inspections Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. The Inspections Advisor plays a critical role in advancing grid reliability, wildfire mitigation, and public safety through the planning and execution of infrared and corona inspection programs across SCE's distribution and transmission assets. This position partners closely with contractors, Air Operations, engineering, grid operations, and field teams to coordinate complex inspection activities, validate deliverables, resolve issues, and ensure audit-ready documentation.

As an Inspections Advisor, 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

• Oversees and executes contracts and agreements in compliance with administrative instructions and regulatory requirements.
• Ensures that permits and easements for facilities are obtained in accordance with all relevant city, county, and additional agencies.
• Develops and implements data management practices to sustain model integrity.
• Directs and coordinates transmission and distribution activities that provide energy services to customers, leading outage management, facility maintenance and capital improvements.
• Obtains management approval for on-going projects and conducts tracking, analysis and resolution of project cost, scope, resource and schedule issues, ensuring commitment on detailed work plans, including contingency and communication plans.
• Retrieves, analyzes and summarizes business, operations, customer and economic data in order to develop business intelligence, optimize effectiveness and predict business outcomes.
• Identifies, analyzes, and interprets trends or patterns and prepares ongoing reports and data visualizations (e.g., charts, dashboards, heat maps) in order to support business decisions.
• Monitors budget variances on a regular basis and prepares and monitors long term budget forecasts.
• 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

• Seven or more years of experience in energy delivery and distribution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting electric utility distribution or transmission inspection, maintenance, reliability, wildfire mitigation, or compliance programs.
• Working knowledge of infrared thermography, corona inspection methods, thermal anomaly identification, severity classification, and corrective action tracking.
• Experience coordinating field execution with contractors, Air Operations, grid operations, engineering, and operations teams in a complex utility environment.
• Strong data validation, reporting, and documentation skills, including experience preparing audit-ready records, regulatory inputs, program summaries, or performance reports.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, resolve schedule or deliverable issues, and drive accountability with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills with the ability to lead meetings, align priorities, and clearly communicate risks, decisions, and next steps.
• Experience using mapping, work management, reporting, or data visualization tools to support inspection planning, tracking, analysis, and program performance.
• Experience with SCE systems such as SAP and GIS

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.
• 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. (External Posting only)
• The primary work location for this position is Pomona, PIV1.
• 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.

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.