Become a Business Operations Analysis, Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll support inspection programs with a primary focus on Aerial Transmission and Centralized Gatekeeping as well as assisting Transmission 360, Distribution 360, compliance ground inspections, and notifications generated from these programs. This role provides operational, technical, training, data analysis, and quality review support. The successful candidate will help and in certain cases lead inspection quality, regulatory compliance, continuous improvement, and effective adoption of tools and workflows. Through this work, the position helps SCE build a better tomorrow by strengthening inspection reliability, supporting safer operations, as well as reducing risk through inspections.

As a Business Operations Analysis, Advisor, 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?

Job Discipline

Business Operations Analysis

Analyzes business operations to identify areas for improvement and to develop and implement strategies to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve overall business performance.
Conducts thorough evaluations of existing business processes and procedures to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement.
Develops strategic plan/roadmaps to optimize the profitability, management, operation and efficiency of an organization's assets, products, services and processes.
Develops, manages and maintains budget and resource plans to ensure the company has the necessary budget and resources to meet its objectives.

Career Level - Advisor

Scope/Focus

Applies mastery of in-depth knowledge in one job family or broader expertise in most areas of a job function. May act as a project manager for one or more short to mid-term projects with responsibilities for results in terms of costs, methods, and outcomes.
Applies extensive technical expertise and has full knowledge of other related disciplines. Challenges are atypical and require the regular use of ingenuity, creativity and resourcefulness.

Accountability

Contributes to defining the direction for new processes, standards or operational plans based on business strategy with an impact on work group results.
Directs involvement in tasks necessary for project execution. Identifies problems and solutions. Collaborates to establish project objectives, timelines, risks, milestones, deliverables and budgets.

Working Relationships

Determines methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other team members. Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables. Completed work is reviewed for achievement of desired results.
As a project manager, resolves issues and ensures task completion by establishing priorities and resolving conflicts with team members.

Decision Making/Impact

Exercises judgment and discretion to advise and recommend courses of action, which have a moderate corporate impact or moderate to major departmental or business unit impact. Authority to negotiate to resolve differences. May make independent decisions when recommending appropriate scope and strategies.
Guides the successful completion of major programs, projects and objectives and may function in a project leadership role. Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in failure to achieve major program/project objectives.

Organizational Competencies

Advances Innovative Solutions
Builds Organizational Capabilities
Communicates with Impact
Creates a Safety Culture
Drives for Results
Focuses on Service Excellence
Fosters an Inclusive Environment
Leads with Vision
Makes Sound Decisions

Responsibilities

Improves the delivery of analytical support to an Operating Unit and/or the enterprise, enhancing the collection, analysis and reporting of data, which enables successful completion of key business operations projects.
Provides advice to stakeholders, presenting analytical findings and making recommendations as to their impact on business operations.
Identifies and improves operational processes and procedures, from maintenance to development of reporting dashboards, to streamline business practice and improve efficiency.
Collects and analyzes data in order to present findings and make recommendations.
Develops models to help inform decision-making on emerging technology investments.
Improves the development of business plan scenarios to evaluate different priorities and potential options to achieving the operating unit and/or enterprise objectives.
Verifies that established processes are aligned with relevant rules, principles, laws, and industry standards with the goal to safeguard assets, minimize errors, and ensure operational activities are performed to mitigate risk.
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

Seven or more years of experience in business operations analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

Demonstrated ability to create and maintain a safetyconscious work environment.
Advanced experience with inspections, including Overhead Detailed Inspections and Aerial Transmission Inspections.
Experience supporting technical projects related to new standards, inspection questions, and emergent initiatives.
Experience developing and delivering technical presentations to both technical and non-technical audiences
Experience organizing, leading, or supporting crossfunctional teams.
Strong adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies, procedures, and ways of working in a rapidly evolving environment.
Proficient in SAP and SAS creating notifications, retrieving data, as well as intaking and filtering large amounts of data generated in SAP.
Knowledge/experience with Transmission and Distribution (T&D) E1 Notifications lifecycle, notifications, and remediation criteria, and/or California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) General Orders 95, 128 and 165 requirements.
Experience with making timely, sound decision with little guidance
General construction knowledge of Transmission and Distribution.
Proficient with Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Power Point, Power BI and GIS systems

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.
Relocation does not apply to this position.

Southern California Edison (SCE)

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