Transmission & Telecom Tactical Grid Support, Senior Advisor

Southern California Edison; Rialto (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison is seeking a Transmission & Telecom Tactical Grid Support, Senior Advisor to lead strategic improvement initiatives across the TGS team. You will drive continuous improvement processes, support performance management, scheduling oversight, and ensure compliance from initiation through close-out.

This role collaborates across departments as a SME on projects, processes and procedures with visibility and impact.

Qualifications

• Ten years of experience in energy delivery/distribution.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Implements new analytical techniques to improve construction, maintenance, and inspection activities.
• Participates in design and analysis of programs to improve reliability.
• Diagnoses and resolves engineering issues to improve customer satisfaction and circuit reliability; ensure safety and compliance.
• Oversees in-depth analysis and develops recommendations addressing technical concerns.
• Manages risk review for pursuits including contracts, fees, and proposals.
• Plans and coordinates activities to prevent energy service interruptions and minimize restoration time.
• Designs processes for continuous business improvement and data collection frameworks.
• Oversees project/program budgets and drives accountability.

Skills

Energy delivery

Data analytics

ERP systems (SAP, Oracle)

PowerBI

PowerApps

MS Access

Grid Tactical Tool (GTT)

ClickSchedule

SAS Visual Analytics

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or higher in computer science, business, engineering, or similar technical discipline

Tools

SAP

Oracle

SAS Visual Analytics

PowerBI

Grid Tactical Tool (GTT)

ClickSchedule

FSM

MS Access

Job description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Transmission & Telecom Tactical Grid Support, Senior Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. As a key member of the TGS team within Transmission & Telecom Operations, this role plays a crucial part in driving strategic efforts with organizational-wide impact, developing and implementing continuous improvement processes, and driving work compliance from initiation through to successful close-out. Your work will directly influence the organization’s ability to meet strategic compliance goals, ensuring the integrity and reliability of critical infrastructure. This position supports performance management, scheduling oversight, operational improvements, and both crew and patrol resource tactical objectives. The position identifies strategies to address operational performance issues impacting corporate or T&D goals and conducts analyses and reporting for Transmission & Telecom Operations initiatives. The position offers a unique opportunity to collaborate across departments by serving as a SME on projects, processes and procedures across the organization, gaining high visibility, and making a significant impact on the company’s regulatory success and operational excellence. This dynamic environment is ideal for someone with a strong background in project and strategic effort management, and who is passionate about process improvement with an eagerness to contribute to meaningful, organization-wide outcomes

As a Transmission & Telecom Tactical Grid Support, Senior 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

• Implements new analytical techniques to move beyond traditional energy delivery system planning problems, developing and implementing processes that support and improve the execution of construction, maintenance, and inspection activities.
• Participates in the design and analysis of new programs to improve the company's reliability.
• Diagnoses and resolves engineering complaints to improve customer satisfaction and circuit reliability. Ensures compliance with all safety, training and auditable guidelines, policies, practices, organization standards and government regulations.
• Oversees in-depth analysis, developing recommendations that support the organization and addressing technical concerns.
• Enables proper execution of risk management requirements related to pursuits including review of contracts, fees, and proposals in conformance with risk review requirements.
• Plans, directs and coordinates activities to prevent energy service interruptions and minimize the impact and restoration time of service interruptions.
• Participates in process design and modification for continuous business improvement, creating data collection frameworks for structured and unstructured data.
• Oversees project/program budgets and drives accountability.
• 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

• Ten years of experience in energy delivery/distribution
• Possess a valid Class C Driver's License

Preferred Qualifications

• Ten or more years of Utility Industry in Transmission, Telecom, and/or Distribution Operations or strategic program/project management experience.
• Experience in Data Analytics, with a strong background in managing, validating large or complex datasets, and deriving insights to identify opportunities forimproved performance.
• Strong experience working with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system (SAP, Oracle, etc.), or with analytical tools such as SAS or SAS Visual Analytics (VA), BIDashboard.
• Strong experience with PowerBI, PowerApps, SAP, MS Access, Grid Tactical Tool (GTT), ClickSchedule or FSM, WorkIt, FMP360.
• Experience preparing and presenting reports on performance, compliance, technical requirements, and/or construction standards to a broad audience including operations personnel and senior executives.
• Experience with Grid, District and/or regional scheduling processes and notification dispositioning in alignment with E1 policy and GO95 requirements.
• Experience and knowledge of notification lifecycle (IPSEC) including but not limited to: understanding the differences between P1/P2/P3 and required end datesfor each (e.g., HFEX, HFIA, non-HFRA)
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in computer science, business, engineering, or similar technical discipline.

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.
• 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.
• Position will require up to 30% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
• This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation. Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.
• 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.

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