Business Operations Analysis, Advisor

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to create and maintain a safety‑conscious 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 cross‑functional 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.
• 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. 
• 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 AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.