Outage Management System (OMS) Senior Specialist

Southern California Edison • Santa Ana, CA

87d • Hybrid

About The Position

Join the Clean Energy Revolution Become an Outage Management System (OMS) Senior Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll provide in-depth technical knowledge for critical outage management project work defining the future of Grid Management. Your technical understanding will help ensure our team's success by supporting the operations and maintenance of the existing OMS system. You will also leverage your skills and experience to solve technical issues with our next generation outage and grid solutions. As part of the IT team that brings these core capabilities to our T&D organization, you will make a true difference in the planning, delivery, and operational support of our Outage Management technologies. SCE's OMS provides critical planned and unplanned outage information to our Transmission & Distribution Organization as well as our Customer Service Organization. The system allows identification and management of outages from initial incidents through restoration and feeds analytical data to several outage-related systems. As an Outage Management System (OMS) Senior Specialist, 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 in designing, building, implementing, maintaining, and supporting complex Utility, Realtime or Enterprise systems - OR - Five or more years of experience as a user of a Utility grid application

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Transmission and Distribution networks, SCADA and control systems
• Five or more years of experience working with and/or supporting an electric utility Outage Management System
• Possesses proficient analytical skills to troubleshoot complex problems related to real-time systems
• Experience creating and executing shell script and/or Python
• Experience with SQL queries and reporting tools and platforms
• Experience performing data analysis and development of business reporting
• Strong coordination and communication skills to support working with cross-functional teams and vendors to achieve success in project activities
• Experience with Kubernetes and Jenkins

Responsibilities

• Performs technical evaluations of grid application systems and develops user training guide alongside team and management
• Performs comprehensive energy audits to assess current energy usage, identify inefficiencies, and propose energy-saving measures
• Advises management on various reliability issues, grid application tools performance gaps, and potential need for new analysis, software or technology development
• Provides comprehensive engineering solutions to improve transmission system reliability and enable future growth of the Electric Transmission Grid
• Identifies potential risks related to energy management and develops strategies to mitigate them
• Evaluates electrical system engineering alternatives for various attributes, including cost, weight, package, quality, benchmarking, geometry creation and functional analysis
• Provides recommendations to senior management on high-level technical issues pertaining to the grid applications
• Ensures compliance with energy-related regulations and reporting requirements, preparing accurate reports for relevant authorities
• Participates in major grid application vendor software enhancements, new product implementation and acceptance testing, ensures deployment in production is successful and cost effective
• Ensures project KPIs are met and stays up-to-date with the latest energy management technologies and innovations, assessing their suitability for implementation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Utilities