Technical Planning Advisor

ensure projects were completed correctly and on time, while meeting industry design standards and safety regulations.

• Oversees the environmental permitting and planning efforts of government, internal, and privately owned infrastructure projects.

• Provides direction and support, assessing and managing the workload and performance of the team, providing training when necessary. Reviews design contractor job packets and also checks peer designs.

• Identifies system and field risks and evaluates risk reduction benefit of proposed mitigation projects. Provides design engineering, cost estimates, and project management activities for overhead and underground, transmission, sub- transmission, and distribution systems. Manages these elements from project inception to project closing. Ensures project operating dates and/or compliance due dates are actively monitored and met. Monitors, forecasts, schedules and stays within allocated division budget.

• Leads the review of planning and system performance studies for compliance with prevailing standards and criteria.

• Leads environmental planning and permitting work with a multi-disciplinary team throughout the life cycle of a project. Serves as the single point of contact for Operations through the Construction phase of your projects. Provides support to Operations for maintenance related projects.

• Creates and maintains integral system circuit mapping for both overhead and underground facilities

• 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. Manages the digital and geospacial records of our Transmission, Sub Transmission, and Distribution assets to ensure accuracy and timely reporting to other internal groups and outside agencies.

• 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

• Five 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

• 5 or more years of experience with distribution utility planning

• Advanced knowledge and experience in AUD Design, Spida CALC/STUDIO, DM, PIP QC PowerBI remediation and reporting

• Experience designing DSP new circuits, 4kV cutovers, HFRA Covered Conductor & TUG Projects

• Strong mentorship, training, and development skillset and background

• Advanced knowledge with SCE Design and Construction standards, manuals, and procedures, GO95 and GO128

Additional Information

• 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.

• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!

• 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.

• Position will require up to 33% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.

• This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation. Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.

• This position has an option for a 9/80 Alternate Work Schedule or 40hrs/5 days a week.

• Relocation does not apply to this position.

• This position requires testing and applicants who are identified to continue through the selection process will be invited to test via email. Reference our Information Guides for the following tests: (EEI TECH (Test #5107) . Candidates who have previously passed these assessment(s), in some cases, may not need to retest again for this position.

• As of July 1, 2025, this position falls within the representation of ESC Local 20. As the company and the union work towards a collective bargaining agreement, please note that the conditions of employment listed on this job posting may be impacted depending on the results of bargaining.

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