Planning, Senior Specialist

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Planning, Senior Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll play a critical role in shaping the future of the electrical distribution system by conducting long-term grid planning, distribution interconnection assessments, and finding new solutions for a reliable grid. This position leads large-scale design projects from concept to construction, ensuring compliance with technical standards, regulatory policies, and customer needs.

Collaboration across internal teams and engagement with a diverse customer base are key to delivering successful outcomes and maintaining system performance.

As a Planning, 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?

• Responsible for engineering and design in relation to SCE Telecomm Facilities. Provides information and data regarding future growth and budgetary planning.
• Develops cost estimates and prepares work orders or construction plans on major projects, several smaller projects, and issuing construction packages to the system for construction.
• Handles permitting, environmental requirements, compliance, and construction activities inclusive of Traffic Control/Pedestrian Control, Encroachment, Street use, Excavation, Railroad, Flood Control, CHP, Caltrans, BLM, National Forest, and all associated stakeholders (i.e. TYCC OCC including Caiso and ISO).
• Leads, monitors and follows up on construction activities and outages inclusive of standards and safe work practices related to overhead and underground construction safety.
• Supports operational emergencies and dispatches crews and resources to restore services as needed.
• Maintains a safety conscious work environment by leading and influencing others to follow Edison safety protocols and safe work practices.
• 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.

• Three or more years of experience in Electrical Utility Distribution/Transmission/Telecommunication Design, Distribution/Transmission/Telecommunication Line Construction, or Engineering discipline.
• Possess a valid Class C Driver’s License.

• Manage complex projects from design through construction, with attention to scope, budget, and timelines.
• Experience using tariffs, resource books, determining scope of work, method of service, and construction methods for overhead and underground facilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across departments and with diverse customer groups.
• Familiarity with outage analysis, system performance tracking, and reliability improvement strategies.
• Strong understanding of utility standards, regulatory requirements, and reliability metrics.
• Providing leadership in mentoring, training, and workload management within technical teams.
• Strong understanding of utility standards, regulatory requirements, and reliability metrics.

• 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.
• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more.
• The primary work location for this position is the Palm Springs Service Center. However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at alternate work location.
• Position will require up to 40%…