Ingénieur Senior en Sécurité des Barrages (H/F)

Job Description

Become a Senior Dam Safety Engineer at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll work with our dedicated Dam Safety Team to protect the Company and the Public by ensuring the safety of SCE's dams. You will provide field and construction support to ensure that dam safety maintenance and capital projects meet Federal and California regulatory requirements, including all needed work authorizations. You will have direct responsibility for making key decisions in the field independently and if needed provide immediate direction to field personnel on dam safety issues.

Key Focus of Role

• Field Inspections/ Construction Support - You will work independently to perform field inspections/ construction support for dams and appurtenant structures to ensure compliance with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and California Division of Safety of Dams (DSOD), and to investigate and evaluate emergent dam safety issues.
• Dam Safety Reports and Briefings - You will prepare critical dam safety regulatory reports and briefings to meet internal and regulatory needs, as well as meet with regulatory agency representatives.
• Maintenance Strategies - You will work with planning units and field personnel to develop, implement and lead effective maintenance strategies for individual dams. Evaluate dam safety instrumentation data and provide recommendations for appropriate threshold and action levels.
• Dam Safety Subject Matter Expert - You will act as a subject matter expert on a range of dam safety topics and provides guidance on (FERC) and California (DSOD) regulations.
• Dam Safety Training - You will provide dam safety training to engineers, hydrographers, civil crew members, operators, managers, and others, as needed.

As a Senior Dam Safety Engineer, 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 engineers performing diagnostics, monitoring and inspecting equipment, and reviewing grid technologies, building relationships to facilitate cross-functional knowledge transfer of related work groups.
• Leads the preparation of technical reports, presentations, and other documentation to communicate project status, findings, and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Collaborates and leads with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless development, integration and implementation of future technologies and asset performance management strategies.
• Assists in a variety of engineering and business initiatives and grid strategies, including development of innovative procedures and design recommendations.
• Provides support for new equipment installation and startup, then leads the hand over processes to the ramp and sustaining phases.
• Leads junior engineers in investigation of threats on the distribution system infrastructure based on observations and findings.
• Gathers and correlates basic data using engineering studies and procedures, which may include routine and diagnostic testing of components and systems.
• Facilitates training and professional development opportunities for engineering team members to enhance their skills and knowledge.
• 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

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Bachelor's Degree in a scientific/technical/math field.
• Seven or more years of experience in engineering within operations, production, construction or maintenance environments.
• Possess a valid Class C Driver's License.

Preferred Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience with Dams and/or Hydropower projects.
• Experience with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and California Division of Safety of Dams (DSOD) dam safety and inspection regulations.
• Experience with applicable civil engineering codes, standards and best practices.
• Experience and ability to independently review and validate design calculations, drawings, specifications and work plans for civil construction projects.
• Experience and knowledge of dam safety engineering best practices.
• Professional Engineering License.

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.
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• 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 in the field.
• Position will require up to 40% traveling and being out in the field in the SCE service territory, supporting across all Hydroelectric Projects.
• 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 may apply to this position.