Southern California Edison (SCE) · 3 hours ago
Transmission/Substation Engineering Development & Testing Engineer 3
Westminster, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
5+ years expSouthern California Edison (SCE) is committed to innovation in the energy sector and is seeking a Transmission/Substation Engineering Development & Testing Engineer 3 to contribute to their clean energy initiatives. The role involves providing transmission/substation testing services and technology demonstrations to support a reliable grid infrastructure, while leading technical strategies and ensuring compliance with safety regulations.
Communications InfrastructureElectrical DistributionEnergySustainability
Responsibilities
Ensures technical issues and problems are resolved in a timely, efficient and cost-effective manner utilizing available resources
Supervises, leads, and coordinates work with full time and contract employees in the execution of new technical strategies, equipment or standards
Conducts life cycle assessments for utility infrastructure materials and processes; improves preventive maintenance procedures to decrease overall downtime
Conducts risk assessments and implements risk mitigation strategies to ensure the safety and reliability of engineering projects
Supports audits and inspections; ensures compliance with relevant environmental, health, and safety Regulations
Provides engineering and technical expertise and guidance for the identification, analysis and resolution of high impact, complex and/or cross-functional problems in engineering
Ensures the engineering facility design basis is controlled and design basis documentation is maintained. Conducts engineering and related studies with full technical responsibility for planning and coordinating high-impact complex projects
Provides support and technical training to junior engineering levels
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Bachelor's Degree in a scientific/technical/math field
Five or more years of experience in engineering within operations, production, construction or maintenance environments
Possess a valid Class C Driver's License
Preferred
Strong understanding and technical capability to deliver advanced technology demonstration projects from concept to field deployment
Experience executing projects that focus on the customer(s) through design thinking, incorporating feedback and developing agreement among stakeholders to maximize project success and technology transfer
Knowledge of modeling power systems especially using PSCAD (software in the loop), RTDS (hardware in the loop), and other power flow and short circuit duty software
Experience working hands on in lab environment with instrumentation and performing testing
Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
Ability to work independently with minimal direction and successfully lead multi-departmental cross functional technical teams on projects with significant financial and operational impact
Familiarity with SCE's publicly available January 2025 Technology Roadmap
Familiarity with the CPUC's Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) program
Company
Southern California Edison (SCE)
As one of the nation’s largest electric utilities, we’re bringing more clean and renewable sources of energy to Southern California.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$2B2025-01-09Debt Financing· $1.5B
2024-09-03Debt Financing· $500M
Leadership Team
Michael Backstrom
Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Lizeth Ruvalcaba
Senior Manager, People Operations and Enablement
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