Protection Standards Engineer

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Protection Standards Engineer 3 at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll contribute to setting the strategic direction for protection by developing and evolving protection standards 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.

As a Protection Standards Engineer 3, 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?

• Ensures technical issues and problems are resolved in a timely, efficient and cost‑effective manner utilizing available resources.
• Supervises, leads and coordinates work with full‑time and contract employees in the execution of new technical strategies, equipment or standards.
• Conducts life cycle assessments for utility infrastructure materials and processes; improves preventive maintenance procedures to decrease overall downtime.
• Conducts risk assessments and implements risk mitigation strategies to ensure the safety and reliability of engineering projects.
• Supports audits and inspections; ensures compliance with relevant environmental, health and safety regulations.
• Provides engineering and technical expertise and guidance for the identification, analysis and resolution of high‑impact, complex and/or cross‑functional problems in engineering.
• Ensures the engineering facility design basis is controlled and design basis documentation is maintained. Conducts engineering and related studies with full technical responsibility for planning and coordinating high‑impact complex projects.
• Provides support and technical training to junior engineering levels.
• 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.
• Five or more years of experience in engineering within 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.
• Experience with advanced protection schemes such as Open Phase Detection, High Impedance Fault Detection or Process Bus (IEC 61850) Applications.
• Experience in developing and/or maintaining Utility Design and Construction Standards.
• Experience performing laboratory‑based testing of protection schemes to ensure proper operation, coordination and compliance with standards (ie. Doble, RTDS, etc.).

• 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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• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• The primary work location for this position is Pomona, California. However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at (alternate work location).
• Position may require up to…