GIS Technical Senior Specialist

Job Description

Become a GIS Technical Senior Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll be responsible for overseeing all aspects of vendor-led LiDAR and ortho data collection for vegetation management operations. This role specializes in managing data acquisition and performing quality control on acquired remote sensing datasets to ensure compliance with technical and regulatory standards. By driving the end-to-end data acquisition and validation process, this role ensures the delivery of high-quality, actionable data to support remote sensing operational and analytical needs. As a GIS Technical Senior 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

• Performs in-depth analyses, approves, develops recommendations, and creates scripts, tools or models where appropriate to enhance data flow and analysis.
• Leads data remediation efforts including analysis, quality control, and performs or coordinates the asset updates to ensure data is accurate and aligns with actual field conditions.
• Identifies industry trends and maintains relationships with relevant stakeholders and provides consultative services on an as-needed basis to address complex GIS problems/issues.
• Designs, develops and implements procedures to improve efficiency of operations and processes associated with mapping standards and GIS tools.
• Utilizes geospatial software to process, analyze, and model geospatial data to improve processes and data quality.
• Collaborates with internal/external business partners to evaluate impacts on departmental activities that rely on GIS data or processes.
• Conducts land, regulatory, and related project searches, including identification of new data sources helping identify industry trends and maintain relationships with relevant stakeholders.
• Produces high-quality map products for presentations, meetings, public usage and departments, and creates key business maps and produces ad-hoc or on-off maps.
• Provides functional direction, guidance, and training to staff members to ensure conformance to departmental standards and procedures.
• 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

• Five or more years of experience in GIS and/or analyzing data.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in geography, engineering, or related discipline.
• Experience with cloud storage platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for data transfer and organization
• Certification in GIS, remote sensing, geospatial data quality best practices or project management.
• Experience with specialized utility analytics platforms for data processing or similar geospatial or asset modeling software.

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.
• Position will require up to 10% 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.
• Relocation does not apply to this position.