Program Safety, Planning and Implementation (SMS), Senior Advisor

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Program Safety, Planning and Implementation (SMS), Senior Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll partner with leaders and individual contributors across Edison Safety to strategically integrate our safety initiatives into our formal Safety Management System framework and ensure alignment with other business processes and functions. Your collaboration will focus on systematically identifying and mitigating risks that can lead to serious injuries and fatalities.

Additionally, you’ll:

• Develop new processes and programs to drive Edison Safety strategic objectives and make strategic decisions recommended to senior management.
• Act as a lead, coordinating with technical experts in areas of safety culture, Safety Management Systems and strategy.
• Partner with Edison Safety teams and OU stakeholders to align frontline organizations with our Human and Organizational Performance adoption model.
• Partner with Field Safety, Contractor Safety, and other Edison Safety teams to ensure consistent approaches across the organization and to continuously improve our Safety Management System.

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

• Develops and runs enterprise-wide safety programs and initiatives; develops new processes and programs to drive Edison Safety strategic objectives.
• Acts as a lead, coordinating with technical experts in areas of safety culture, safety management systems and strategy; influences decisions on practices and policies to internal or external partners.
• Analyzes unique and complex technical problems and delivers solutions where precedent may not exist.
• Establishes project objectives and manages timelines, risk analysis, milestones, deliverables and budgets; approves tasks and schedule necessary for successful project execution and drives problem solving and issue resolution.
• Determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results; work is checked through consultation and agreement with others rather than by formal review of management.
• Drives implementation of safety programs, policies and procedure for the enterprise independently with strategic decisions recommended to senior management.
• Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments.
• Influences company leadership on major initiatives and implements strategic projects.
• Presents, facilitates, and provides recommendations at executive forums and develops materials and reports for company leadership.
• Conducts training and presentations related to Safety projects and programs at an advanced level.
• Provides guidance about work activities to colleagues.
• 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 health, safety, or compliance programs, activities, or systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Safety Management Systems and/or strategy.
• Bachelors Degree in business, science or related field.
• Experience leading complex, high visibility safety initiatives at a utility.
• Proficiency in MS Office tools.
• Five or more years of Project Management experience.

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 Rosemead, CA. However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at an alternate work location.
• Position will require up to 20% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
• Relocation does not apply to this position.
• Serves in an emergency response role as part of the Company's Incident Management Team in supporting crisis response. This role requires periodic on-call reporting during the day, night and weekends as emergencies arise.

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 AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.