Vegetation Management Compliance Quality Advisor

About the role

Join Southern California Edison (SCE) as a Vegetation Management Compliance Quality Advisor and help lead the quality control process and methodology. You will manage the implementation of strategic sampling requirements to ensure effective oversight of Vegetation Management (VM) programs, including Compliance, Hazard Tree, Dead & Dying Trees, and Structure Brushing. Your work will contribute to powering our planet, reducing carbon emissions, and creating cleaner air for everyone.

Responsibilities

• Tracks and analyzes performance, providing feedback and recommendations on methods to improve quality.
• Drives quality assurance improvement plans and uses in-depth knowledge of best practices to implement improvements, facilitating continuous improvements by assessing process and product measures.
• Oversees, participates in the design, development, and execution of data-related work, ensuring it is performed according to company policies and procedures.
• Develops training curriculum and educates all levels of the organization in process and performance improvement methods and tools.
• Provides support to strategy and policy development and ensures delivery within area of responsibility.
• Identifies opportunities for process enhancements across the organization and participates in process improvement initiatives.
• Evaluates best practices of data gathering, record maintenance, and documentation within the industry, identifies compliance risks, and implements risk mitigation to enable innovative solutions.
• Analyzes business processes, identifies alternative solutions to replace outdated processes, and assesses their feasibility.
• Ensures the protection of all physical, financial, and cybersecurity assets, and properly accesses and manages private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other highly sensitive information with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Requirements

• Seven or more years of experience in advanced data analytics, reporting, and developing process improvement opportunities to ensure quality of processes.

Qualifications

• Two or more years’ experience with remote sensing inspection and evaluation of acquired data.
• Two or more years’ experience analyzing complex data sets from various sources.
• Experience working under a heavily regulated and audited environment.
• Experience providing work to, or overseeing work performed by contractors.
• Experience working under a Quality Management System.
• Five or more years’ experience working with Vegetation Management Codes and Standards such as NERC Reliability Standard FAC-003, GO95 Rule 35, Rule 37, Public Resource Codes 4292 & 4293.
• Two or more years’ experience applying statistical or judgmental sampling methodology.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and highly demanding work environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, and GIS systems.
• Experience developing and implementing performance metrics.

Additional Information

This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility in Pomona for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. The position may require up to 20% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.

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.