Wildfire Operational Strategies Senior Advisor

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Wildfire Operational Strategies Senior Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll play a central role in shaping enterprise-level wildfire risk reduction, PSPS risk mitigation, regulatory commitments, and enterprise decision-making. A key focus of this role will be advancing wildfire mitigation strategy, including guiding execution of grid hardening initiatives that reduce wildfire and PSPS risks and helping integrate multiple mitigation approaches into the most effective overall strategy. The Senior Advisor will also serve as a wildfire subject matter expert, supporting cross-functional workstreams and regulatory efforts, including the General Rate Case, Wildfire Mitigation Plan, and related filings.

As a Wildfire Operational Strategies Senior Advisor, your work will help shape how SCE reduces wildfire and PSPS risk while supporting safe, reliable, and affordable service for customers. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

This is a highly visible role critical to SCE’s ability to translate wildfire and PSPS risk insights into actionable mitigation strategies, investment priorities, and regulatory positions that support public safety, reliability, and customer resilience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience leading complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives with significant operational, regulatory, financial, or public safety implications.
• Demonstrated experience planning, and executing electric utility wildfire mitigation strategies, grid operations, PSPS protocols, and the operational tradeoffs involved in reducing wildfire and customer impact risk.
• Experience preparing materials for executive audiences, regulatory filings, testimony, or public-facing submissions.
• Demonstrable understanding of risk frameworks, assessments, and tradeoffs
• Ability to synthesize complex technical, operational, regulatory, and financial information into clear decision-support materials.

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. 
• The primary work location for this position is Irwindale; however, the successful candidate will also split time in Pomona, CA.
• Position will require up to 10% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory. 
• Relocation may 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 AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.