Design Process Support Advisor

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Design Process Support Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this role, you'll represent design personnel on cross-functional teams addressing departmental, technical and policy matters, while contributing to major corporate and operational initiatives, provide guidance to process development teams by identifying design and process issues, as well as recommending solutions and managing related documentation and training. You will serve as a liaison between Transmission & Distribution Design and key stakeholders to include Regulatory, Legal, Governmental Affairs, Real Estate, Standards Engineering, and IT to ensure alignment on design standards, processes and procedures.

This Design and Field Asset Services team supports Design groups in the areas of project design and management (technical system knowledge, tariff interpretation, design tools usage and overall policy and process knowledge). Additional services provided through this team include support through the Design Support Help desk to answer process and technical question from Design and other stakeholder personnel and support of special projects. As a Design Process Support Advisor, your help 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

• 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

• Five or more years of experience working in the Design Organization (District, Technical, Transmission, or New Business)

• Three or more years as a Planner

• Bachelor's Degree

• Working knowledge of Transmission and Distribution Design Standards, Design and Pricing tools - Design Manager (DM), Automated Utility Design (AUD) and/or SpidaCalc

• Proficiency in Microsoft applications including - Word, Excel, SharePoint, Outlook, One Note, Vizio and Power Point

• Ability to work well in a team-oriented environment, matrix reporting structure and maintain professionalism and a positive attitude while handling a heavy workload

• Five or more years of experience working in planning systems (DM, AUD, SPIDA), creating maps and/or work orders, documentation of pricing, and/or material ordering

• Ability to follow and support Edison safety protocols and safe work practices

• Strong analytical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making skills

• Experience managing multiple tasks/projects concurrently with little managerial oversight in a fast paced environment

• Project management Certification

Additional Information

• The position's work mode is remote. Employee is able to work primarily at home or remote however, the employee may be expected to come to an SCE facility approximately 30-40% of the time. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Hiring organizations can add further requirements related to specific jobs. 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.
• Position will require up to 40% travel to an SCE facility.
• 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.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.