Outage Request Coordinator (Power System Operations Specialist 4)

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Outage Request Coordinator (Power System Operations Specialist 4) at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll provide critical support to the Grid Control Center, perform technical studies to ensure reliability, collaborate with the California ISO, assist in coordinating outages for capital projects, and maintain a safety-conscious work environment. As a Outage Request Coordinator (Power System Operations Specialist 4), 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

- Analyzes electric system operating data and makes timely decisions that ensure safe and reliable operation of the company system.

- Leads investigations and root cause analyses of equipment failure, major grid failures, and unscheduled outages, developing next-generation solutions and interventions.

- Attends project planning meetings to provide operations requirements and ensures that all operating requirements are met.

- Directs the development of regional outage management programs and provides strategic guidance on preventing wide-area transmission disturbances.

- Provides thorough and timely updates to leadership, keeping stakeholders aware of important details.

- Resolves technical issues with customer grid interconnections and interfaces with external customers on interconnection requirements.

- Develops strategic solutions to complex substation problems, partnering with cross-company teams and utilizing deep operational knowledge to resolve issues.

- Researches and implements emerging technologies, driving adoption in order to enhance real-time

- Monitoring.

- 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

- Ten or more years of experience in electric system operations.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience leading teams or guiding technical staff, including mentoring, workload coordination, and quality assurance of complex operational deliverables.

- Experience performing power system analysis, such as power flow analysis.

- Ability to lead cross-functional groups, influence without authority, and drive consensus on technical and operational decisions.

- Experience managing the development, evaluation, and continuous improvement of teamwork products, processes, and operational capabilities.

- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Engineering or related technical field.

- Knowledge and experience with ISO operations and control of the generation and transmission system.

- NERC Certified System Operator.

- Knowledge of NERC standards, WECC policies, and CAISO procedures.

- Ability to integrate work across relevant areas, develop the business and services to improve customer satisfaction and productivity, manage risks appropriately, handle information, and provide exceptional service to internal and external customers.

- Effective resource and project planning, decision making, results delivery, team building, and the ability to know the latest relevant technology and innovation.

- Knowledge and practical experience with iTOA (Integrated Tools for Outage Analysis) software, including outage request creation, validation, and workflow management.

- Five or more years of experience with outage request coordination procedures, including compliance requirements, scheduling practices, and integration with CAISO and internal operational processes.

- Working knowledge of system protection principles, including protective relaying, switching procedures, and the impacts of protection schemes on outage planning and real‑time operations.

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.

- The primary work location for this position is Alhambra. However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at Irvine.

- This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation. Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.

- 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 (833) 343-0727.