Outage Management System (OMS) Specialist

Southern California Edison•Santa Ana, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Join the Clean Energy Revolution Become an Outage Management System (OMS) Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll provide technical knowledge for critical outage management project work defining the future of Grid Management. Your technical understanding will help ensure our team’s success. 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) 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

Three or more years of experience in designing, building, implementing, maintaining, and supporting complex Utility, Realtime or Enterprise systems - OR - Three 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.
Three 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.
Capability to create and execute shell script and/or Python.
Proficient with SQL queries and reporting tools and platforms.
Experience performing data analysis, 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

Provides operations support, troubleshooting, integration testing and user training
Performs technical analysis to define grid application requirements and updates
Monitors and analyzes energy usage data to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for optimization
Supports the testing and implementation of new grid application releases
Identifies trends and root causes of issues, determines solutions, and makes recommendations for management consideration
Updates, monitors and maintains the reliability of the grid application advance apps, and control application
Identifies and implements actions plans to prevent future system issues
Configures and modifies grid application databases and ensure that all telemetry and controls are available and accurate
Provides engineering support to grid operations by resolving complex issues via implementation of state-of-the art and new technologies
Updates, monitors project KPIs and maintains power system modeling, state estimator, contingency analysis and power flow analysis supporting real-time operations
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.