Hybrid Senior Grid Planning Specialist — Shape Cleaner Grid

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become aPlanning, Senior Specialistat Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’llplay a critical role in shaping the future of the electrical distribution system by conducting long-term grid planning, distribution interconnection assessments, and finding new solutions for a reliable grid. This position leads large-scale design projects from concept to construction, ensuring compliance with technical standards, regulatory policies, and customer needs.

Collaboration across internal teams and engagement with a diverse customer base are key to delivering successful outcomes and maintaining system performance.

AsaPlanning, Senior 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?

Responsibilities

• Conducts long-term grid import planning analyses and transmission interconnection assessments and projects. Manages various large design projects from inception to construction completion with follow- through on policies, procedures, rules, rates, completion dates, and ensuring compliance of electrical designs.
• Supports 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.
• Makes decisions that have a direct impact on project, course, timing, scope, and budget.
• Performs field inspections to gather data relevant to the planning and development review process and to verify that planning development projects comply with approved plans.
• Assesses the capabilities of the regional distribution system and its compliance with the planning criteria.
• Conducts power flow studies, builds power flow models, and prepares economic analyses to develop short- and long-term distribution system plans.
• Ensures the distribution system performance meets reliability targets and that outages are analyzed for cause, trends and duration.
• Coordinates 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 his/her assigned projects.
• Stays up to date of current industry practices, standards and customer needs. Interacts with a diverse customer base on meeting electrical design needs and is responsible for providing successful outcomes for the customer and SCE on assigned or requested projects.
• Provides training and support, assessing and managing the workload when necessary.
• 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Three or more years of experience in Electrical Utility Distribution/Transmission/Telecommunication Design, Distribution/Transmission/Telecommunication Line Construction, or Engineering discipline.
• Possess a valid Class C Driver's License.

Preferred Qualifications

• Manage complex projects from design through construction, with attention to scope, budget, and timelines.
• Experience using tariffs, resource books, determining scope of work, method of service, and construction methods for overhead and underground facilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across departments and with diverse customer groups.
• Familiarity with outage analysis, system performance tracking, and reliability improvement strategies.
  
  Strong understanding of utility standards, regulatory requirements, and reliability metrics.
• Providing leadership in mentoring, training, and workload management within technical teams.
• Strong understanding of utility standards, regulatory requirements, and reliability metrics

Additional Information

• This position’s work mode ishybrid.The employee will report to an SCE facility for a…