Planning, Associate Specialist

Become a Planning, Associate Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll become a part of our Fullerton New Business Planning Hub team, where you'll also support Distribution for the Orange region. You will lead reporting efforts, manage maintenance due dates, and support district-wide planning initiatives. You'll support the Planning Organization by assigning, tracking and balancing work assignments along with other Planning related tasks. This role plays a vital part in driving operational efficiency through data analysis using SAP, Excel, and S4Hana. If you're detail-oriented and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this is a great opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

As a Planning, Associate 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?

Responsibilities

• Responsible for checking daily for any new Service Requests (SRs, MSRs) or Work Orders in Design Manager; contacting customers to clarify scope, timeline, and specifications.
• Responsible for checking if existing notifications/SRs are existing on same or nearby structures, using in cGIS; analyze scope of work and define, based on standard guidelines, if the work should be assigned to Planners or Field Techs.
• Analyzes workload and skill sets of Planners/Field Techs and assign work to the most appropriate resource in Design Manager; bundle for Field Tech; update Planner folder in Sharepoint.
• Verify new service requests, work orders, and contact customers to clarify scope, timeline, and specifications daily
• Analyze scope of work to appropriately assign to planners or field planning technicians in Design Manager and update information in SharePoint.
• Reviews work order management data and weekly project status reports for completeness and accuracy and make updates and corrections as appropriate, including tracking of projects with appropriate system tools.
• Interface with the Planners and Field Techs to ensure that the project's status is up to date and accurate, including providing a report out to leadership of progress.
• Reviews and validates work order completion.
• Set-up and administer SharePoint sites to organize, share, and protect information, including maintaining all vital reports and updates to leaders.
• Maintain a safety conscious work environment.
• 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

• Analytical experience using Microsoft Excel to perform advanced functions such as VLOOKUP's, pivot tables, filtering/sorting, charts and graphing.
• Experience working with scheduling software.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using data visualization tools to support efficient planning.
• Experience working in the electric utility industry.
• Experience with SAP.
• Experience with project management support.
• Experience with customer service.

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!
• The primary work location for this position is the Fullerton Service Center. However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at alternate work location.
• Position will require up to 5% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
• This position has an option for a 9/80 Alternate Work Schedule or 40hrs/5 days a week.
• Relocation does not apply to this position.
• This position requires testing and applicants who are identified to continue through the selection process will be invited to test via email. Reference our Information Guides for the following tests: SCE Excel Test (Test #4118). Candidates who have previously passed these assessment(s), in some cases, may not need to retest again for this position.
• 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.