Senior adviseur projectbeheersing en planning

Become a Project Controls Scheduling, Senior Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll play a key role in supporting California's clean energy future by applying advanced scheduling practices to the planning and execution of complex capital projects supporting electric vehicle infrastructure, renewable energy integration, and grid modernization. Your expertise in schedule development, logic and dependency management, critical path analysis, forecasting, baseline management, and schedule risk identification will help project teams proactively address constraints and maintain alignment with key milestones and project objectives. As a trusted Senior Advisor in Scheduling, you will provide actionable schedule intelligence that supports effective project controls, timely decision-making, and successful project delivery.

Key Focus Areas

• Integrated Project Scheduling & Planning: Lead the development, maintenance, and optimization of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and master integrated schedules for complex, multi-year capital projects and programs throughout all project lifecycle phases.
• Schedule Development & Critical Path Management: Establish schedule logic, dependencies, and sequencing across multiple disciplines to ensure accurate planning, execution, and alignment of project milestones.
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Strategic Advisory: Partner with project teams, leadership, and stakeholders to provide scheduling expertise, communicate schedule impacts, and recommend solutions to complex project challenges.
• Schedule Performance Monitoring & Forecasting: Oversee milestone tracking, schedule updates, and performance reporting, including earned value analysis, schedule performance metrics, variance analysis, and completion forecasting.
• Schedule Risk & Scenario Analysis: Conduct what-if analyses, schedule impact assessments, and advanced analytics to identify risks, evaluate alternatives, and support informed business decisions.
• Project Controls Analytics & Reporting: Develop and present actionable insights, recommendations, and complex scheduling analyses to improve project outcomes, cost management, and schedule certainty.
• Governance, Audit & Regulatory Support: Lead project controls data requests, documentation, and reporting efforts in support of corporate governance, regulatory filings, internal and external audits, and General Rate Case requirements.
• Scheduling Excellence & Best Practices: Serve as a subject matter expert in scheduling management by promoting industry best practices, continuous improvement, and standardized project controls methodologies.

As a Project Controls Scheduling, 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 maintains cost tracking tools and templates to facilitate consistent and efficient cost management practices across projects.
• Evaluates and implements cost management best practices and process improvements to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of cost engineering processes.
• Advises leadership on cost engineering methods and procedures and prepares developmental assignments for engineers.
• Leads the evaluation of the projects time, cost, and quality targets, applying governance controls to enable the successful delivery of the project.
• Provides input during project planning and design phases to optimize project cost-effectiveness, value engineering, and risk mitigation.
• Prepares specific budgets in accordance with prescribed standards and procedures.
• Facilitates internal and contractor compliance with all cost-related requirements and contractual requirements.
• Ensures site project cost controls policies and procedures, consistent with department policies, are implemented and monitored throughout the duration of the project.
• 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 engineering cost controls, estimating, planning, and risk assessment for major construction projects.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Business, Construction Management, or a related field.
• 10 years of progressive experience in project controls, project management, scheduling, or capital project execution.
• Advanced proficiency with Primavera P6 scheduling software.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Project (MS Project) and related project management tools.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to evaluate project performance, identify risks, and develop corrective action plans.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders and supporting complex, multi-year projects and programs.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to convey schedule, cost, and risk impacts to leadership and project teams.
• Demonstrated experience in project management practices, including:
• Project planning and scheduling
• Project controls and performance management

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 Pomona, CA (Pomona Innovation Village). However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at other locations throughout your assigned service territory.
• Position will require up to 25% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
• Relocation does not apply to this position.

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.