Senior Dam Safety Engineer

Position Overview

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

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.

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?

Key Responsibilities

• Field Inspections/Construction Support – Perform field inspections and construction support for dams and appurtenant structures to ensure compliance with FERC and DSOD, and investigate emergent dam safety issues.
• Dam Safety Reports and Briefings – Prepare critical regulatory reports and briefings for both internal needs and meetings with regulatory agency representatives.
• Maintenance Strategies – Collaborate with planning units and field personnel to develop, implement, and lead effective maintenance strategies for individual dams while evaluating instrumentation data for appropriate recommendations.
• Dam Safety Subject Matter Expert – Serve as the subject matter expert on a range of dam safety topics, providing guidance on FERC and DSOD regulations.
• Dam Safety Training – Provide dam safety training to engineers, hydrographers, civil crew members, operators, managers, and others as needed.
• Oversee engineers in diagnostics, monitoring, and inspection activities, while fostering cross-functional knowledge transfer.
• Lead the preparation of technical reports, presentations, and other documentation to communicate project status, findings, and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the seamless development, integration, and implementation of future technologies and asset performance management strategies.
• Provide support for new equipment installations and startup phases, and lead the handover processes to ramp and sustaining teams.
• Guide junior engineers in investigating threats to the distribution system infrastructure based on field observations and findings.
• Gather and correlate data through engineering studies, including routine and diagnostic testing of components and systems.
• Facilitate training and professional development opportunities to enhance the skills and knowledge of the engineering team.
• Ensure the protection of physical, financial, and cybersecurity assets while managing sensitive information with the highest standards of conduct.

Required Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits & Perks

• Schedule: Hybrid work mode with set days at an SCE facility and remote options.
• Location: Rosemead, CA or Big Creek, CA.
• Up to 50% travel required to support the Big Creek Hydroelectric Project.
• Relocation may apply.
• Must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment/Background Investigation and complete required training before gaining unescorted access to work locations.