Inspections Advisor - Intrusive Pole Inspections/Darklight

Southern California Edison; Pomona (CA); Hybride; USD 100 000 - 165 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Southern California Edison (SCE) seeks an Inspections Advisor for Intrusive Pole Inspections/Darklight to support planning, data management, reporting, and oversight of inspections programs in a hybrid work environment in California.

The role emphasizes contract management, data-driven decision making, and coordination with stakeholders to ensure compliance and program performance. Candidates should have 7+ years in energy delivery and distribution and familiarity with SAP and GIS.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of intrusive pole inspection methods, pole condition assessment, distribution asset health, or utility inspection standards.
• Experience with contractor performance tracking, scorecards, audit documentation, or quality control programs.
• Familiarity with electric distribution systems, regulatory inspection programs, data lifecycles, and maintenance or replacement planning.
• Experience developing repeatable reporting tools, templates, data queries, process documentation, or continuous improvement recommendations.
• Strong data validation, reporting, and documentation skills, including audit-ready records, regulatory inputs, program summaries, or performance reports.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, resolve schedule or deliverable issues, and drive accountability with stakeholders.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills for meetings, priorities, risks, decisions, and next steps.
• Experience using mapping, work management, reporting, or data visualization tools to support inspection planning and program performance.
• Experience with SCE systems such as SAP and GIS

Responsabilités

• Oversees and executes contracts and agreements in compliance with instructions and regulatory requirements.
• Ensures permits and easements for facilities are obtained with relevant agencies.
• Develops data management practices to sustain model integrity.
• Directs and coordinates transmission and distribution activities and outage management.
• Obtains management approval, tracks cost, scope, resources and schedule with contingency and communication plans.
• Retrieves, analyzes and summarizes data to develop business intelligence and predict outcomes.
• Identifies trends and prepares reports and data visualizations to support decisions.
• Monitors budget variances and long-term forecasts.
• Protects assets and handles sensitive data with highest standards of conduct.

Connaissances

Pole inspection

Asset health

Inspection standards

Contractor tracking

Quality control

Audit documentation

Distribution systems

Regulatory inspection

Data lifecycle

Maintenance planning

Reporting tools

Data queries

Process documentation

Continuous improvement

Data validation

Stakeholder management

Meetings leadership

Mapping tools

SAP

GIS

Outils

SAP

GIS

Description du poste

Inspections Advisor - Intrusive Pole Inspections/Darklight

Become anInspections Advisor - Intrusive Pole Inspections/Darklightat Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. The Inspection Advisor is responsible for supporting the planning, execution, data management, reporting, and administrative oversight of the Intrusive Pole and Streetlight (Darklight) Inspections Programs. This role ensures inspection activities are properly scheduled, contractor deliverables are reviewed for accuracy and completeness, inspection data is transformed and uploaded into required systems, and program performance is monitored through recurring reports and stakeholder updates.

As an Inspections Advisor - Intrusive Pole Inspections/Darklight, 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?

• 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

• Knowledge of intrusive pole inspection methods, pole condition assessment, distribution asset health, or utility inspection standards.
• Experience working with contractor performance tracking, scorecards, audit documentation, or quality control programs.
• Familiarity with electric distribution systems, regulatory inspection programs, inspection data lifecycles, and maintenance or replacement planning processes.
• Experience developing repeatable reporting tools, templates, data queries, process documentation, or continuous improvement recommendations.
• 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 ishybrid. 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.
• 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.

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