Planning, Advisor

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Planning, Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this role you’ll step into a high impact role and help shape the future of our grid. You’ll collaborate with top design contract partners to drive complex electrical design work while coaching and empowering Planners and Designers to deliver exceptional results that will help power the future.

As a 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?

• 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 geospacial 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.

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

• High energy, positive, and team oriented approach that supports a collaborative, solutions focused work environment.
• Strong understanding of engineering principles, construction standards, and industry best practices.
• Proficiency with CAD based design tools.
• Experience defining scope of work, service methods, and construction approaches for overhead and underground facilities.
• Skilled in collaborating with customers, Distribution Engineering, and internal partners to establish technical requirements for new client driven projects.
• Experience developing preliminary electrical and civil design scopes and operational requirements.
• Background in preparing distribution work orders and construction plans.
• Ability to analyze and design engineered civil drawings.
• Experience coordinating design activities for infrastructure replacement programs, including UPC circuits, capacitor installations, deteriorated…