Permitting Compliance Advisor

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Date: Apr 16, 2026

Location: Ventura, CA, US, 93004-1720

Company: Southern California Edison

 

 

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Permitting Compliance Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this role you'll play a critical part in protecting SCE’s franchise rights and enabling safe, compliant infrastructure work by serving as a key liaison between internal teams, contractors, and external agencies. It drives impact by resolving complex permitting, regulatory, and agency issues, preventing delays, controlling costs, and safeguarding the company’s ability to operate within CPUC and municipal requirements. The work is exciting because it is highly visible, relationship‑driven, and dynamic—requiring strategic judgment, negotiation, and proactive problem‑solving that directly influences project success and long‑term agency partnerships. . As a Permitting Compliance 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?

Responsibilities

  • Provides strategic guidance on agency permitting pathways, resource permit considerations, construction and engineering design and impact reduction and mitigation.
  • Builds and maintains programs to ensure compliance with all levels of federal, state, and local levels. Prepares and implements permitting strategies, schedules and agency or public outreach efforts to minimize project cost and risk.
  • Identifies and understands site-specific permitting and jurisdictional risks, evaluates, and communicate those risks to the development team, and develops risk mitigation strategies for each project.
  • Fosters and enhances relationships with local and state agencies, such as permitting authorities, environmental agencies, and counterparties such as landowners.
  • Coordinates with various internal and external design and work stream teams to complete required studies, permits, interconnection, and logistics.
  • Provides critical information to key stakeholders about permitting to ensure that projects comply with all relevant design guidelines and ordinances.
  • Coordinates regular meetings with department executives to go over pending issues, concerns, and upcoming projects.
  • 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 acquisitions of construction permits.

 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working with permitting, inspections, or right‑of‑way issues, including direct coordination with Public Works agencies, Caltrans, or other Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs).
  • Strong knowledge of utility franchise rights, CPUC‑regulated work, and municipal permitting processes.
  • Ability to manage multiple complex issues with urgency, sound judgment, and attention to detail, including documentation and cost tracking.
  • Proven ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with external agencies such as Public Works Directors, City Engineers, and regulatory staff. 

 

 

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.

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