New Business - Planning, Advisor

Southern California Edison • Lancaster, CA

98d • Hybrid

About The Position

Join the Clean Energy Revolution Become a New Business - Planning, Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring team output meets quality standards, providing mentorship and training, and designing or contributing to the success of large-scale projects. As a New Business - 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?

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• Experience and thorough knowledge of engineering principles, construction standards, and industry practices.
• Experience with CAD based design.
• Experience determining scope of work, method of service, and construction methods for overhead and underground facilities.
• Experience preparing distribution work orders or construction plans on projects.
• Experience analyzing and/or designing engineered civil drawings.
• Experience as senior staff, providing leadership, direction, training and mentoring to staff.
• Willingness and ability to occasionally lift up to 40lbs; drive, traverse on uneven surfaces; sit/stand for extended periods of time; and work in various weather conditions (possibly even in remote regions - coast, desert, mountains across California for extended periods of time).
• Experience managing multiple and/or sensitive projects and functioning effectively under tight time constraints, shifting priorities and making critical decisions with minimal supervision.
• Experience serving as a project leader for the design and implementation of design projects, as well as planning, influencing, anticipating, and communicating conditions, trends and corrective actions in operational areas.
• Accurately analyze information and make sound decisions that have considerable business impact.

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.
• Serves as the single point of contact for Operations through the Construction phase of your projects.
• Provides 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.
• Manages the digital and geospatial records of our Transmission, Sub Transmission, and Distribution assets to ensure accuracy and timely reporting to other internal groups and outside agencies.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Utilities