Dam Safety Engineer
Listed on 2026-09-27
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Engineering
Environmental Engineer, Environmental Compliance & Protection
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Dam Safety Engineer 1 at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll work with our dedicated Dam Safety Team to protect the Company and the Public by ensuring the safety of SCE's dams. You will provide field and construction support to ensure that dam safety maintenance and capital projects meet Federal and California regulatory requirements, including all needed work authorizations.
You will have direct responsibility for making key decisions in the field independently and if needed provide immediate direction to field personnel on dam safety issues.
- Field Inspections/ Construction Support
- You will work independently to perform field inspections/ construction support for dams and appurtenant structures to ensure compliance with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and California Division of Safety of Dams (DSOD), and to investigate and evaluate emergent dam safety issues. - Dam Safety Reports and Briefings
- You will prepare critical dam safety regulatory reports and briefings to meet internal and regulatory needs, as well as meet with regulatory agency representatives. - Maintenance Strategies
- You will work with planning units and field personnel to develop, implement and lead effective maintenance strategies for individual dams. Evaluate dam safety instrumentation data and provide recommendations for appropriate threshold and action levels. - Dam Safety Subject Matter Expert
- You will act as a subject matter expert on a range of dam safety topics and provides guidance on (FERC) and California (DSOD) regulations. - Dam Safety Training
- You will provide dam safety training to engineers, hydrographers, civil crew members, operators, managers, and others, as needed.
As a Dam Safety Engineer 1, 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?
Responsibilities- Prepares technical engineering evaluations and supports the inspections of equipment and operations. Assists in the review and applications of new technologies to improve quality of service to customers.
- Maintains records and documentation on relevant engineering procedures and preventative/ demand
- Maintenance.
- Assists with engineering projects using existing procedures to investigate, evaluate and assist in producing technically correct and cost-effective designs and solutions.
- Supports the document lifecycle within assigned projects according to defined organizational processes.
- Provides operational support to improve customer satisfaction and reliability performance; monitors the trending of electrical system health.
- Assists with Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Apparent Cause Analysis (ACA), and miscellaneous investigations to troubleshoot problems, making changes to correct them.
- Observes all safety policies during the execution of required tasks and ensures safety standards are met, and safe working practices are adhered to.
- 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.
- Experience performing engineering work in operations, production, construction or maintenance environments.
- Possess a valid Class C Driver's License.
- Experience with Dams and/or Hydropower projects.
- Experience with geology,…
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