What are the responsibilities and job description for the Compliance Senior Specialist position at Southern California Edison (SCE)?
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Compliance Senior Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll play a critical leadership role in the design, implementation, and governance of SCE’s Compliance Program. This position partners closely with senior leadership, compliance program owners, and cross‑functional stakeholders to ensure regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, and continuous process improvement across CPUC, FERC, Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety (Energy Safety), NERC regulations as well as supporting the Risk-based Compliance model.
As a Compliance 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
The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.
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 AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.
Become a Compliance Senior Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll play a critical leadership role in the design, implementation, and governance of SCE’s Compliance Program. This position partners closely with senior leadership, compliance program owners, and cross‑functional stakeholders to ensure regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, and continuous process improvement across CPUC, FERC, Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety (Energy Safety), NERC regulations as well as supporting the Risk-based Compliance model.
As a Compliance 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
- Interfaces with vendors and certification bodies to initiate projects, delivers test data and related documentation, and solves compliance issues.
- Provides technical expertise in regulatory compliance, including environmental, health, energy, and safety regulations.
- Participates in incident investigations and develops corrective actions to address compliance deficiencies. Identifies regulatory trends to enable the leadership team to make strategic choices.
- Maintains effective internal control system in relation to adherence with regulations and company policies and processes.
- Ensures compliance with all relevant acts, government policies and procedures, corporate policies and procedures, and contractual obligations.
- Identifies process improvement opportunities based on incident investigations, root cause analysis, and industry best practice.
- Provides guidance on interpreting the compliance regulations from a technical perspective.
- 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
- Five or more years of experience with regulatory compliance, guidelines, compliance standards, risk assessment of noncompliance issues or cybersecurity.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Regulatory Compliance, or a related field.
- Experience in regulatory compliance, CPMO/project management, or risk‑based compliance within the energy or utility industry.
- Experience working with NERC CIP and Operations & Planning standards.
- Experience leading cross‑functional teams, manage complex projects, and influence senior leadership.
- Experience with process improvement, automation, data analysis, and SharePoint governance.
- Excellent written, verbal, and executive‑level communication skills.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.
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 AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.