Distribution Project Controls, Senior Advisor

Hiring Manager: Evelia Carmona

Job Abbreviation: _E

Pay Grade: Exempt - 36

Pay Range: $-$

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Distribution Project Controls, Senior Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and help build a better tomorrow. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in shaping how SCE’s Transmission & Distribution organization plans, funds, and executes its operational work. You will be responsible for balancing affordability, reliability, and performance delivery by integrating Capital and O&M operating plans, ensuring financial and operational strategies are fully aligned to support a resilient, future‑ready grid.

This is a unique opportunity to influence enterprise‑level decisions, translate complex data into actionable strategies, and establish operating plans for billions of dollars in annual investments across Transmission & Distribution.

As a Senior Advisor, you will partner closely with Substation Leadership, Operational Finance, Resource Planning, and Subject Matter Experts to provide a clear and transparent view of the Substation Construction & Maintenance financial portfolio—from budgeting through forecasting. You will lead the development of operating plans, cost‑per methodologies, and compliance tracking, while mentoring team members and fostering collaboration across departments.

The Senior Advisor plays a critical leadership role in guiding operational planning, cost analysis, and performance management across T&D. By ensuring alignment between financial strategy and operational execution, you will drive transparency, affordability, and resilience across the organization, strengthening SCE’s ability to deliver reliable energy and support California’s clean energy future.

• Develops and maintains cost tracking tools and templates to facilitate consistent and efficient cost management practices across projects.
• Evaluates and implements cost management best practices and process improvements to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of cost engineering processes.
• Advises leadership on cost engineering methods and procedures and prepares developmental assignments for engineers.
• Leads the evaluation of the projects time, cost, and quality targets, applying governance controls to enable the successful delivery of the project.
• Provides input during project planning and design phases to optimize project cost‑effectiveness, value engineering, and risk mitigation.
• Prepares specific budgets in accordance with prescribed standards and procedures.
• Facilitates internal and contractor compliance with all cost-related requirements and contractual requirements.
• Ensures site project cost controls policies and procedures, consistent with department policies, are implemented and monitored throughout the duration of the project.
• 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.

• Ten or more years of experience in engineering cost controls, estimating, planning, and risk assessment for major construction projects.

• Master’s degree or higher in computer science, information systems, statistics business, finance, computer systems, or a related technical discipline.
• Seven or more years of experience in the Electric Utility industry, with deep knowledge of Transmission & Distribution operations, cost structures, and performance drivers.
• Seven or more years of experience leading annual and long‑term operational planning for O&M, Capital, and Department Overhead (DOH), including development and refinement of cost‑per‑unit methodologies that link financial actuals to operational performance insights.
• Extensive experience overseeing complex cost reporting, variance analysis, monthly budget and forecast reviews, and ad hoc performance assessments to inform executive decision‑making.
• Demonstrated expertise in architecting and designing…