Special Projects Planning Planning Advisor

Southern California Edison • Pomona, CA

111d • Hybrid

About The Position

Join the Clean Energy Revolution Become a Special Projects Planning Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll operate across the entire service territory, converting master-metered MHPs to individually metered gas and electric services. Also, you'll manage small generation projects, produce designs for upgrading small hydro interconnection facilities and large customer microGrid projects, and collaborate with design contractors to create work orders for charge ready projects. As a Special Projects 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 with engineering principles, construction standards, and industry practices.
• Experience using database systems for planning, ordering materials and scheduling work orders.
• Experience using tariffs, resource books, determining scope of work, method of service, and construction methods for overhead and underground facilities.
• Experience preparing work orders or construction plans on projects.
• Interface effectively and collaborate with clients, peers, management, and other work units.
• Experience with CAD based design.
• Experience using interpersonal skills to handle customer relations issues in an effective manner.
• Experience managing multiple and/or sensitive projects and functioning effectively under tight time constraints, shifting priorities and making critical decisions with minimal supervision.

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.
• Serve as the single point of contact for Operations through the Construction phase of your projects.
• Provide 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.
• Manage 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.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Utilities