GIS Technical Specialist

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Date: Sep 26, 2025

Location: Santa Ana, CA, US, 92705

Company: Southern California Edison

Join the Clean Energy Revolution


Become a GIS Technical Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow.  In this job, you’ll be part of the Geospatial Data Maintenance team within our Transmission & Distribution Business Unit.  In this role, you’ll interpret work order/field maps and maintain detailed geospatial electric asset data using AutoCAD Map software within a comprehensive GIS database.


As a GIS Technical Specialist, 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

  • Conducts interpretation and analysis tasks to extract relevant information from geospatial data sources
  • Participates in data resolution initiatives and special projects for asset data remediation, performing data quality control checks and process documentation updates
  • Assists in the site selection processes by evaluating potential project sites and assessing their feasibility using GIS tools and techniques
  • Generates and maintains GIS-generated operations maps, performing in-depth analysis on geospatial asset data
  • Participates in the development and implementation of tools supporting quality control tracking and reporting
  • Participates in the designs, development and implementation of procedures to improve efficiency of operations and processes associated with mapping standards and GIS tools
  • Updates and maintains the company's facilities maps, detailed records in the GIS, and geospatial data on desktop, mobile and cloud data storage applications
  • Supports construction-based activities including field investigations and GPS data collection
  • Supports data remediation efforts by performing desktop analysis, initial quality control, updating data, and developing methods and procedures to ensure existing GIS data and mapping products are accurate and meet acceptable standards
  • 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

  • Three or more years of experience in GIS and analyzing mapping data.

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Experience with Autodesk AutoCAD Map products.
  • Experience with electric utility asset data models. 
  • Experience producing technical documentation and communicating technical approaches clearly and concisely.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Geography, Computer Science or related field, with an emphasis in GIS.  
  • Specialized GIS certification. 

 

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!
  • The primary work location for this position is Santa Ana, CA.  However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at alternate work location.
  • Relocation does not apply to this position.
  • 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.

 

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.


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