Senior Wildfire Risk & Grid Resilience Advisor

Southern California Edison (SCE); Irwindale (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison (SCE) is seeking a Wildfire Operational Strategies Senior Advisor to shape enterprise wildfire risk reduction and PSPS mitigation, guiding grid hardening initiatives and regulatory commitments. You will serve as a subject matter expert across cross-functional workstreams, supporting filings such as the General Rate Case and Wildfire Mitigation Plan.

The role emphasizes strategic analysis, regulatory planning, and translating complex technical, regulatory, and financial

Qualifications

• Ten or more years of experience in strategic planning, setting strategies at the department or organization level.
• Five or more years of experience leading complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives with significant operational, regulatory, financial, or public safety implications.
• Experience planning, and executing electric utility wildfire mitigation strategies, grid operations, PSPS protocols, and the operational tradeoffs involved in reducing wildfire and customer impact risk.
• Experience preparing materials for executive audiences, regulatory filings, testimony, or public-facing submissions.
• Demonstrable understanding of risk frameworks, assessments, and tradeoffs
• Ability to synthesize complex technical, regulatory, and financial information into clear decision-support materials.

Responsibilities

• Supports the development of critical regulatory and legislative initiatives to facilitate the execution of the strategic plan.
• Identifies system risks and evaluates risk reduction benefits of proposed mitigation strategy projects in the capital investment strategy.
• Leads the development and management of Protection and Control Asset strategies for programmatic investment decisions.
• Evaluates SCE's enterprise level risks and provides suitable mitigation options to senior management.
• Provides strategic and regulatory analysis for the company, specifically including competitive positioning, price forecasting, financial analytics, and regulatory planning scenario evaluations.
• Provides analyses, evaluation and management recommendations on key strategic initiatives.
• 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.

Skills

Strategic planning

Cross-functional leadership

Regulatory analysis

Risk assessment

Executive communications

Job description

Southern California Edison (SCE) is seeking a Wildfire Operational Strategies Senior Advisor to shape enterprise wildfire risk reduction and PSPS mitigation, guiding grid hardening initiatives and regulatory commitments. You will serve as a subject matter expert across cross-functional workstreams, supporting filings such as the General Rate Case and Wildfire Mitigation Plan.

The role emphasizes strategic analysis, regulatory planning, and translating complex technical, regulatory, and financial