Slalom Flex - Wildfire Mitigation​/PSPS Program Analyst; Multi

Slalom is seeking a Wildfire Mitigation and PSPS Program Analyst to support a large Southern California utility's Emergency Management function. The utility is expanding its wildfire mitigation and Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) capabilities in response to increasing climate driven risk from rising temperatures, drought, and extreme weather.

Reporting into the utility's wildfire mitigation program leadership, this role provides the analytical, documentation, and coordination support that keeps the program running. You will help maintain and improve PSPS plans, protocols, and standard operating procedures, support situational awareness tools and reporting, and provide direct support to emergency operations personnel during activations. This is a hands‑on execution role for someone who is strong on process documentation, data, and coordination in a high stakes operational environment.

This is a contract position with the opportunity to apply for a permanent role with the utility.
This position will require 3 days per week onsite to local LA office.

• Support the ongoing operation of the utility's PSPS program, including maintaining operational workflows, tracking action items, and coordinating across teams to keep program activities on schedule.
• Draft, update, and maintain plans, protocols, and standard operating procedures for wildfire mitigation and PSPS, ensuring alignment with Emergency Management practices, IC​S and NIMS principles, safety requirements, and regulatory expectations.
• Document PSPS event lifecycle processes across pre‑event, during event, restoration, and after‑action phases, and keep procedural documentation current as the program evolves.
• Support situational awareness capabilities by compiling and quality checking weather data, fire risk indicators, asset information, and field status inputs, and helping maintain the dashboards and reports leadership relies on.
• Prepare analysis, briefing materials, and status reporting that help leadership and emergency operations personnel make timely decisions during wildfire and PSPS conditions.
• Participate in exercises, drills, and post incident reviews, capturing lessons learned and turning them into updates to plans, tools, and procedures.
• Track evolving wildfire and climate risk practices across the utility industry and summarize relevant developments for the program team.
• Support Department Emergency Operations Center activations with shift‑based overtime or on‑call work, including nights, weekends, holidays, and extended hours.
• This position's work mode is in person.

• 3 or more years of experience in emergency management, business continuity, utility operations, wildfire mitigation, or a closely related field
• An understanding of utility operations, with prior experience at an electric utility, municipal utility, or public power agency preferred.
• Experience writing and maintaining plans, standard operating procedures, and operational documentation, with strong written communication skills.
• Solid analytical skills, including comfort working with operational data in Excel and building or maintaining reports and dashboards.
• Familiarity with IC​S and NIMS and how organizations coordinate during incidents. IC​S 100, 200, 700, and 800 completed, or willingness to complete them within the first 60 days.
• Ability to organize work, track commitments across multiple stakeholders, and keep documentation current in a fast‑moving environment.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and change, including responding to evolving risk conditions and time sensitive events.
• Availability to support activations outside of standard business hours.

• Exposure to PSPS, de‑energization, Wildfire Mitigation Plans, HFTD, or CPUC and…