Senior Operating Engineer – Power System Operations Specialist 4
- Job ID: 4522
- Job Family: Transmission & Distribution
- Location: Alhambra, CA, US
- Pay: $201,300 – $246,000
Non-Represented
This base pay range is for a pay grade that encompasses this position and a variety of other positions at the company. The pay offered to the successful candidate may vary depending on the position and multiple individualized factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Represented IBEW Local 47
This pay range represents the rates of pay for step 1 to the maximum step for this position. The pay range and the specific pay for the successful candidate are determined in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement between Southern California Edison Company and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 47.
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Senior Operating Engineer – Power System Operations Specialist 4 at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll provide critical support to the Grid Control Center, perform technical studies to ensure reliability, collaborate with the California ISO, assist in analyzing outages for capital projects, and maintain a safety-conscious work environment. As a Senior Operating Engineer – Power System Operations Specialist 4 , 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
- Provides leadership, direction, and training to PSO3s and below, checks work and assumes responsibility for accuracy of the groups work product.
- Provides leadership in addressing Grid Operations short-and long-term needs for solutions to operating challenges. Support and provide improve consistency in specialized installations (TLRR, BESS, RAS/CRAS) in response to operational needs. Analyze electric system operating data and make timely decisions that ensure safe and reliable operation.
- Supports real-time operations by developing, updating, and maintaining system documentation like EMS computer screens, one-line diagrams, Outage Notes, System Operating Bulletins and Operating Procedures as needed to reflect the changes to the Grid caused by abnormal system conditions and Capital projects.
- Ensures that SCE operational procedures are in alignment with WECC, NERC, FERC, CAISO, and CPUC standards. Actively supports and may lead in the audit planning and presentation process. Ensures the ongoing gathering of all operations related evidence for compliance. Stays abreast of upcoming compliance related issues and discussions.
- Represents SCE at external technology meetings and workshops and Grid Operations in internal meetings impacting electric system operations. Researches and implements emerging technologies driving adoption to enhance real-time monitoring.
- Provides SME support in the development and delivery of operations and compliance related training.
- Provides thorough and timely updates to leadership, keeping stakeholders aware of important details.
- Must successfully pass the NERC PER-005 Assessment within 12 months as a condition of continued employment.
- 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
- Ten or more years of experience in electric system operations.
Preferred Qualifications
- NERC Certified System Operator.
- Professional Engineer License.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
- Experience with SCE’s System Operating Bulletins and Operating Procedures.
- Experience performing advanced system analysis, including transient stability, voltage stability, and Short Circuit Duty studies.
- Experience performing powerflow and contingency analysis using commercial powerflow software such as PSLF and TSM.
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.
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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.
- Position will require up to 10% 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.
- Relocation does not apply to this position.
About Southern California Edison
The people at SCE don’t just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.
Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727.
