Protection Standards, Senior Engineer

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Protection Standards Senior Engineer 1 at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll sit at the crossroads of innovation, safety, and reliability, offering a unique opportunity to influence how systems are designed in support of SCE’s Pathway 2045, Wildfire Mitigation Plan, and Encore initiatives. Every day presents new changes–whether it’s staying ahead of technological advancements, ensuring compliance with evolving industry regulations, or collaborating with teams to implement best practices that protect assets and people alike.

A short list of examples that the team is working on is high impedance fault detection, open phase detection, compact substation protection schemes, virtual protection, and many more. The excitement comes from knowing your expertise directly impacts the safety and resilience of entire communities and industries. By setting and upholding rigorous standards, you help build a smarter, more secure grid—one that adapts to changing demands and integrates cutting-edge solutions.

As a Protection Standards Senior Engineer 1, 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?

• Oversees engineers performing diagnostics, monitoring and inspecting equipment, and reviewing grid technologies, building relationships to facilitate cross-functional knowledge transfer of related work groups
• Leads the preparation of technical reports, presentations, and other documentation to communicate project status, findings, and recommendations to stakeholders
• Collaborate and lead with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless development, integration and implementation of future technologies and asset performance management strategies
• Assists in a variety of engineering and business initiatives and grid strategies, including development of innovative procedures and design recommendations
• Provides support for new equipment installation and startup, then leads the hand over processes to the ramp and sustaining phases
• Leads junior engineers in investigation of threats on the distribution system infrastructure based on observations and findings
• Gathers and correlates basic data using engineering studies and procedures, which may include routine and diagnostic testing of components and systems
• Facilitates training and professional development opportunities for engineering team members to enhance their skills and knowledge
• 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.

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Bachelor's Degree in a scientific/technical/math field.
• Seven or more years of experience performing engineering work in operations, production, construction or maintenance environments.
• Possess a valid Class C Driver's License.

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or related field.
• Working knowledge in developing distribution, subtransmission, and/or transmission protection settings.
• Licensed Professional Engineer.
• Experience with advanced protection schemes such as Open Phase Detection, High Impedance Fault Detection, Process Bus (IEC 61850) Applications
• Experience in developing and/or maintaining Utility Design and Construction Standards.

• This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
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