Design Contractor Senior Planning Specialist

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Design Contractor Senior Planning Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll be responsible for overseeing and preparing complex electrical designs for several internal organizations. Also, you will work with our design contract partners, lead Planner, Planning Specialist and Designers. As a Design Contractor Senior Planning 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?

• Conduct long‑term grid import planning analyses and transmission interconnection assessments and projects. Manage large design projects from inception to construction completion with follow‑through on policies, procedures, rules, rates, completion dates, and ensuring compliance of electrical designs.
• Support the company's electrical distribution system by developing and designing plans, identifying necessary resources and providing cost estimates and options for the construction of distribution facilities.
• Make decisions that directly impact project course, timing, scope, and budget.
• Perform field inspections to gather data relevant to the planning and development review process and to verify that planning development projects comply with approved plans.
• Asses the capabilities of the regional distribution system and its compliance with planning criteria.
• Conduct power flow studies, build power flow models, and prepare economic analyses to develop short‑ and long‑term distribution system plans.
• Ensure the distribution system performance meets reliability targets and that outages are analyzed for cause, trends and duration.
• Coordinate activities with other internal personnel and/or organizations to ensure compliance and appropriate follow‑through of policies, procedures, rules, rates, and completion dates applicable to assigned projects.
• Stay up to date on current industry practices, standards and customer needs. Interact with a diverse customer base to meet electrical design needs and provide successful outcomes for the customer and SCE on assigned or requested projects.
• Provide training and support, assessing and managing workload when necessary.
• Protect the company's physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly access and manage private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records and other highly sensitive information 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 an engineering discipline.
• Possess a valid Class C Driver's License.

• Proven ability to apply engineering principles, construction standards and industry practices.
• Experience determining scope of work, method of service and OH/UG construction methods.
• Proficiency with wind/pole loading applications, drafting systems, GIS or related design systems (e.g., SPIDA Calc, Autodesk AUD, cGIS, SAP or equivalents).
• Experience preparing work orders, construction plans or project packages.
• Ability to manage multiple technical or customer projects under shifting priorities.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across teams (clients, peers, management, agencies).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Leadership or mentorship experience.
• Proficiency using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Experience managing customer or stakeholder interactions in a technical, construction or utility environment, including providing clear information, addressing inquiries and coordinating solutions.
• Responsible for peer work order review.
• Experience coordinating design activities for infrastructure replacement programs (UPC circuits, capacitors, deteriorated structures, cable replacements, switch replacements, AR replacements, 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…