Permitting Specialist

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Permitting Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll play a key role in advancing critical energy infrastructure projects. You will lead end-to-end permitting efforts, collaborate with governmental agencies and internal teams, and ensure timely, compliant approvals that keep projects moving safely into construction. This role is exciting because it offers ownership, collaboration, and a direct impact on delivering reliable energy and supporting a cleaner, more sustainable future.

As a Permitting Specialist, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to gather required documentation and information necessary for permit applications and approvals.
• Prepares and processes essential documents for right-of-way access across government-owned land.
• Tracks and maintains detailed records of permit statuses, approvals, and expiration dates, ensuring that all permits are up-to-date and in compliance with regulations.
• Coordinates closely with utility companies and governmental entities to establish efficient communication channels and streamline the approval process for facility-related projects.
• Manages the billing and annual payments to multiple agencies, ensuring accuracy and timely submission of payments for services or usage related to organizational projects.
• Monitors regulatory changes and updates related to licenses, permits, and governmental requirements, ensuring organizational compliance and timely adjustments to processes.
• Provides input on process improvements to reduce potential bottlenecks in obtaining approvals.
• 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

• Three or more years of experience with acquisition of construction permits and/or planning and design of electric utility projects.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience reviewing and interpreting Electric Utility construction drawings, plans, maps, and/or designs.
• Experience working within construction timelines and with various construction personnel and clients.
• Experience monitoring and updating permit statuses, approvals, and expiration dates.
• Experience and familiarity with building and maintaining positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience and proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and SharePoint.
  
  

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!
• 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 the Montebello Service Center. However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at alternate work locations through the SCE service territory.
• Relocation does not apply to this position.
  
  

About Southern California Edison

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 (833) 343-0727.