What are the responsibilities and job description for the Grid Management System, Senior Advisor position at Southern California Edison?
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Grid Management System (GMS), Senior Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll oversee the GMS Operations, provide strategic guidance, and improve overall reliability of SCE's Grid. This position will provide technical leadership for highly complex projects, lead architecture, design and implementation efforts, which include hands-on software development. Work with application vendors and manage all escalated design and implementation issues to proper closure.
This role involves mentoring senior technical team members, serving as a subject matter expert on GMS and related systems, and collaborating with vendors, senior leadership, and multidisciplinary teams. The candidate will provide technical leadership in the maintenance and support of mission-critical GMS, Distribution, and SCADA applications, including after-hours tier 3 support. Responsibilities include performing complex analysis, consulting on technical issues, leading system upgrades and deployments, and implementing action plans to prevent future issues.
As a Senior 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
- Oversees EMS related activities such as updating databases, displays, operation and maintenance of systems and sub-systems and interfaces with internal and external systems
- Optimizes algorithms, prediction models and an interface with microgrid equipment
- Troubleshoots and resolves complex systems issues to resolution independently, collaboratively with the team, and with vendor engagement
- Collaborates directly with IT maintaining, improving, and implementing communications, and hardware and software infrastructure
- Interprets and implements various supervisory control and data acquisition protocol communications on remote devices and control centers
- Configures and modifies EMS databases and ensures that all telemetry and controls are available and accurate
- Performs complex technical analysis to define customer requirements, identify risks and improve existing solutions
- Maintains and supports system interfacing historical data systems
- Understands and implements various ISO (Independent System Operator) telemetry requirements to support various energy management needs of the customers and maintains grid operator reliability and compliance
- Writes and reviews documentation to describe configuration processes, logic, and test plans. Writes and reviews manuals for users
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
Additional Information
NERC / CIP
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.
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