Slalom Flex - Wildfire Mitigation / PSPS Program Analyst (Multi-year Contract)

Slalom; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 76,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Slalom seeks a Wildfire Mitigation and PSPS Program Analyst to support a large Southern California utility's Emergency Management function. The role focuses on PSPS planning, documentation, and coordination in a high-stakes operational environment.

Three+ years in emergency management or related fields, strong written communication, and data analytics with Excel and dashboards are required. The position is 3 days/week onsite in Los Angeles, with potential for permanent employment.

Qualifications

• 3 or more years of experience in emergency management, business continuity, utility operations, wildfire mitigation, or a closely related field
• An understanding of utility operations, with prior experience at an electric utility, municipal utility, or public power agency preferred.
• Experience writing and maintaining plans, standard operating procedures, and operational documentation, with strong written communication skills.
• Solid analytical skills, including comfort working with operational data in Excel and building or maintaining reports and dashboards.
• Familiarity with ICs and NIMS and how organizations coordinate during incidents. IC 100, 200, 700, and 800 completed, or willingness to complete them within the first 60 days.
• Ability to organize work, track commitments across multiple stakeholders, and keep documentation current in a fast-moving environment.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and change, including responding to evolving risk conditions and time sensitive events.
• Availability to support activations outside of standard business hours.

Responsibilities

• Support the ongoing operation of the utility's PSPS program, including maintaining operational workflows, tracking action items, and coordinating across teams to keep program activities on schedule.
• Draft, update, and maintain plans, protocols, and standard operating procedures for wildfire mitigation and PSPS, ensuring alignment with Emergency Management practices, ICs and NIMS principles, safety requirements, and regulatory expectations.
• Document PSPS event lifecycle processes across pre-event, during event, restoration, and after-action phases, and keep procedural documentation current as the program evolves.
• Support situational awareness capabilities by compiling and quality checking weather data, fire risk indicators, asset information, and field status inputs, and helping maintain the dashboards and reports leadership relies on.
• Prepare analysis, briefing materials, and status reporting that help leadership and emergency operations personnel make timely decisions during wildfire and PSPS conditions.
• Participate in exercises, drills, and post incident reviews, capturing lessons learned and turning them into updates to plans, tools, and procedures.
• Track evolving wildfire and climate risk practices across the utility industry and summarize relevant developments for the program team.
• Support Department Emergency Operations Center activations with shift-based overtime or on call work, including nights, weekends, holidays, and extended hours.
• This position's work mode is in person.

Skills

Emergency management

Business continuity

Utility operations

Data analysis

Excel

Dashboards

Written communication

Coordination

Tools

SharePoint

Power BI

Tableau

ArcGIS

Job description

Slalom is seeking a Wildfire Mitigation and PSPS Program Analyst to support a large Southern California utility's Emergency Management function. The utility is expanding its wildfire mitigation and Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) capabilities in response to increasing climate driven risk from rising temperatures, drought, and extreme weather.

Reporting into the utility's wildfire mitigation program leadership, this role provides the analytical, documentation, and coordination support that keeps the program running. You will help maintain and improve PSPS plans, protocols, and standard operating procedures, support situational awareness tools and reporting, and provide direct support to emergency operations personnel during activations. This is a hands-on execution role for someone who is strong on process documentation, data, and coordination in a high stakes operational environment.

This is a contract position with the opportunity to apply for a permanent role with the utility.
This position will require 3 days per week onsite to local LA office.

What You’ll Do

• Support the ongoing operation of the utility's PSPS program, including maintaining operational workflows, tracking action items, and coordinating across teams to keep program activities on schedule.
• Draft, update, and maintain plans, protocols, and standard operating procedures for wildfire mitigation and PSPS, ensuring alignment with Emergency Management practices, ICs and NIMS principles, safety requirements, and regulatory expectations.
• Document PSPS event lifecycle processes across pre-event, during event, restoration, and after-action phases, and keep procedural documentation current as the program evolves.
• Support situational awareness capabilities by compiling and quality checking weather data, fire risk indicators, asset information, and field status inputs, and helping maintain the dashboards and reports leadership relies on.
• Prepare analysis, briefing materials, and status reporting that help leadership and emergency operations personnel make timely decisions during wildfire and PSPS conditions.
• Participate in exercises, drills, and post incident reviews, capturing lessons learned and turning them into updates to plans, tools, and procedures.
• Track evolving wildfire and climate risk practices across the utility industry and summarize relevant developments for the program team.
• Support Department Emergency Operations Center activations with shift-based overtime or on call work, including nights, weekends, holidays, and extended hours.
• This position's work mode is in person.

What You’ll Bring

• 3 or more years of experience in emergency management, business continuity, utility operations, wildfire mitigation, or a closely related field
• An understanding of utility operations, with prior experience at an electric utility, municipal utility, or public power agency preferred.
• Experience writing and maintaining plans, standard operating procedures, and operational documentation, with strong written communication skills.
• Solid analytical skills, including comfort working with operational data in Excel and building or maintaining reports and dashboards.
• Familiarity with ICs and NIMS and how organizations coordinate during incidents. IC 100, 200, 700, and 800 completed, or willingness to complete them within the first 60 days.
• Ability to organize work, track commitments across multiple stakeholders, and keep documentation current in a fast-moving environment.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and change, including responding to evolving risk conditions and time sensitive events.
• Availability to support activations outside of standard business hours.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to PSPS, de-energization, Wildfire Mitigation Plans, HFTD, or CPUC and Energy Safety reporting.
• Emergency management credentials such as CEM or AEM, or experience supporting a local or state EOC.
• Experience with SharePoint, Power BI, Tableau, or ArcGIS.

About Us

Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact.

What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling, not perfect, but possible. That’s why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days.

Compensation and Benefits

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that includemeaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The targeted hourly pay range is $55/hr to $85/hr. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The hourly pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.

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EEO and Accommodations

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