Final Inspection, Senior Technical Specialist

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Final Inspection, Senior Technical Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. Join our high-impact Final Inspection team that serves as the last line of quality assurance for third party post construction projects, ensuring work is completed safely, accurately, and in compliance with engineering and regulatory standards. In this job, you'll leverage your technical expertise to identify and resolve complex design, construction, and documentation issues, directly protecting system reliability, financial integrity, and customer satisfaction. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate across field operations and contractor organizations while driving continuous improvement and influencing the quality of work delivered through contractor deliverables and reporting unauthorized attachments and GO-95 infractions identified.

As a Final Inspection, Senior 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?

A Day In The Job

A Senior Technical Specialist provides a critical layer of technical review and quality assurance by:

• Conducting detailed technical reviews of Final Inspection contractor packages.

• Identifying design and construction defects (GO-95 infractions) and unauthorized attachments.

• Validating field assessment accuracy.

• Reviewing pole loading and construction documentation.

• Supporting contractor quality management.

• Assisting with complex technical escalations.

Responsibilities

• Provides full-time technical support to the operations and business unit staff.

• Aids in managing subcontractors' schedules for fielding and design deliverables, providing vendor liaison support and maintaining third party relationships.

• Establishes, documents, and maintains procedures and guidelines related to the day-to-day operational support provided to the operations and business unit staff.

• Maintains tracking for long-term performance evaluations and ensures adherence to baseline requirements.

• Documents field trips and product analysis to enable continuous improvement of troubleshooting procedures, product installations, and product robustness.

• Presents project status updates to senior managers during weekly progress meetings.

• Helps develop the scopes of work required by pole owners and power utilities for design and pole loading analysis.

• Resolves incidents and problems and provides support to the monitoring and reporting of the supported systems performance, collaborating with teams in an Agile environment to deliver project goals and solutions.

• Validates and maintains reference information, documentation and databases in order to effectively evaluate, design and engineer complex work requests.

• Performs in-depth analysis, develops recommendations, and may provide consulting to address customer and/or Company problems/issues which cross organizational boundaries and require thorough technical knowledge to resolve.

• Leads team or participate as a team member during implementation of specialized technical 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

• Five or more years of experience in technical support.

• Possess a valid Class C Driver's License.

Preferred Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in SPIDACalc pole loading, reviewing pole loading walk sheet assessments, distribution design, construction, field operations, quality assurance, or post construction inspection.

• Experience reviewing engineering packages, field assessments, construction documentation, and as-built records.

• Proficiency with utility systems such as SPIDACalc, SPIDAStudio, SAP, GIS, and work management platforms.

• Experience identifying Unauthorized Attachments.

• Knowledge with General Order 95 (GO-95).

• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve complex technical, construction, and compliance issues.

• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

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 (https://www.edisoncareers.com/page/show/candidate-resources) 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 [email protected] or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.