Transmission Planning Advisor

Southern California Edison (SCE); San Dimas (CA); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work schedule

Competitive salary

Career development opportunities

Job summary

A leading utility provider is seeking a Transmission Planning Advisor to oversee multiple engineering-sensitive projects in Southern California. The successful candidate will plan, design, and install sub-transmission lines while ensuring compliance with safety standards. You will monitor project budgets, coordinate with teams, and conduct field inspections. Ideal candidates should have significant experience in utility distribution planning along with strong communication and leadership skills. This role offers a hybrid work environment and an opportunity to contribute to clean energy initiatives.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience performing electrical utility distribution service planning.
• Possess a valid Class C Driver's License.

Responsibilities

• Develop and design plans for electrical Transmission and Sub Transmission systems.
• Coordinate tasks with internal staff ensuring project completion.
• Oversee environmental permitting and planning efforts.
• Review design contractor job packets.
• Manage workload and performance of team.

Skills

Electrical utility distribution service planning

Leadership and mentoring

Project management

Risk evaluation

Communication skills

Education

Five or more years of experience in relevant field

Tools

AutoCAD

Microsoft Office Suite

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Base pay range

$126,000.00/yr - $189,000.00/yr

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Transmission Planning Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll serve as a lead on multiple projects that are highly technical, time critical, and engineering-sensitive. The successful candidate will plan, design, and oversee the installation of new sub-transmission lines as well as the realignment of existing easements for third party relocations, among many other functions that prepare our grid for the future.

As a Transmission Planning 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

• Supports the company's electrical Transmission, Sub Transmission, and Distribution system by developing and designing plans, identifying necessary resources and providing cost estimates and options for the construction of said facilities
• Coordinates tasks with other internal staff to ensure projects were completed correctly and on time, while meeting industry design standards and safety regulations
• Oversees the environmental permitting and planning efforts of government, internal, and privately owned infrastructure projects
• Provides direction and support, assessing and managing the workload and performance of the team, providing training when necessary. Reviews design contractor job packets and also checks peer designs
• Identifies system and field risks and evaluates risk reduction benefit of proposed mitigation projects
• Provides design engineering, cost estimates, and project management activities for overhead and underground, transmission, sub- transmission, and distribution systems. Will manage these elements from project inception to project closing. Ensures project operating dates and or compliance due dates are actively monitored and met. Monitors, forecasts, schedules and stays within allocated division budget
• Leads the review of planning and system performance studies for compliance with prevailing standards and criteria
• Leads environmental planning and permitting work with a multi-disciplinary team throughout the life cycle of a project. Serve as the single point of contact for Operations through the Construction phase of your projects. Provide support to Operations for maintenance related projects.
• Creates and maintains integral system circuit mapping for both overhead and underground facilities
• Performs field inspections to gather data relevant to the planning and development review process and to verify that planning development projects comply with approved plans. Manage the digital and geospacial records of our Transmission, Sub Transmission, and Distribution assets to ensure accuracy and timely reporting to other internal groups and outside agencies
• 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

• Five or more years of experience performing electrical utility distribution service planning.
• Possess a valid Class C Driver's License.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AutoCAD, Auto Desk Utility Design (AUD), SPIDA (or other Pole Loading programs), Design Manager (DM).
• Experience in field construction.
• Experience in the Electric Utility Industry.
• Experience and thorough working knowledge with transmission line construction, maintenance, methods, procedures, tools and materials.
• Experience and broad knowledge of transmission rights-of-way practices and corporate/business line policies and practices, including safety and environmental rules and regulations and the IBEW contract.
• Experience and advanced knowledge utilizing engineering principles, construction standards, and industry practices.
• Experience determining scope of work, method of service, technical design requirements, and construction methods for overhead and underground facilities.
• Experience serving as senior staff expert and provide leadership, direction, training, and mentoring to staff.
• Experience gathering and analyzing information, along with making strategic decisions regarding project scope, impact, policy, development, and implementation.
• Experience supervising either Transmission and/or Distribution Construction.
• Experience interpreting design plans or technical drawings.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, Outlook and Sharepoint.

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.
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• 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.
• The primary work location for this position is San Dimas, CA (Covina Service Center). However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at alternate work locations.
• Position will require up to 10% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
• This position has an option for a 9/80 Alternate Work Schedule or 40hrs/5 days a week.
• Relocation does not apply to this position.
• This position requires testing and applicants who are identified to continue through the selection process will be invited to test via email. Reference our Information Guides for the following tests: EEI TECH (Test #5107). Candidates who have previously passed these assessment(s), in some cases, may not need to retest again for this position.

About Southern California Edison

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