Description
Job ID: 71034308
Become a Meteorology Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job you will support the Weather Services group within Business Resiliency. You will work on blue sky operational support for the Situational Awareness Center and incident operational support when Emergency Operating Center is activated for gray and black sky conditions. Additionally, our Meteorology team is responsible for operational forecasting support for the procurement of energy within the Energy Procurement and Management organization.
As an 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?
A day in the life - Get ready to think big, work smart and shine brightly!.
- Develops and implements procedures to monitor, analyze and produce short, medium, and long-range weather forecasts and reports for situational awareness from the Situational Awareness Center (SA-Center). This could be during day-to-day operation and leading up to and during times of Incident Management Team Activations.
- Works closely with the Watch Office to inform reports to executives and send alerts about extreme weather to grid operations and other affected organizations across the company
- Project manager for complex projects - specifically, projects aimed at the mitigation of asset failure due to weather, fires and climate impacts.
- Leads medium to large organizational projects aimed at development and execution of situational awareness tools, fire prevention and monitoring, hazard modelling, and climate adaptation efforts etc.
- Developing tools and models to aid in forecasting accuracy and fidelity
- Ensures timely development of products needed to support the SA-Center, Business Resiliency and Operations.
- Supports the Energy Procurement and Management (EPM) organization through the operation, testing, and maintenance of quantitative forecasting, modeling and analysis tools, to produce data to support power procurement transactions, hedging, position management, regulatory reporting, bidding and resource optimization in energy markets.
- Maintains proficiency in and influences company operations through weather monitoring, forecasting and reporting.
- Works and trains with people in the field and key stakeholders from multiple organizations across the company to understand and learn about equipment, assets and business functions across the territory.
- Use knowledge to develop tools aimed at improving operational support.
- Routinely interacts with T&D Grid Operations, field operations and Fire Management personnel to gain and maintain knowledge of grid systems and develop relationships with field personnel and external stakeholders.
- Provides subject matter expertise and consults on projects across the company and internal to Business Resiliency.
- Develops relationships and key partnerships with meteorology, scientific and technology communities to align and continuously improve in-house weather forecasting skills, statistical weather forecasting models and information and tools need to support operations.
- Continuously improves in-house weather forecasting skills and statistical weather forecasting models.
- Works with vendors on improving their weather forecasting services.
- Completes own work independently.
- Maintains proficiency in the use of all existing weather-related technical tools and explores and implements new technical solutions used at SCE.
Qualifications
The essentials
- Bachelors or Master's degree in meteorology, atmospheric sciences or a related technical area of study.
- Six years of experience in weather forecasting and analysis
- Knowledge and experience with regulatory policies, methods, and practices necessary to perform complex assignments.
- One year of experience communicating how extreme weather events affect the environment.
- Experience performing statistical analysis and modeling.
The preferred
- Graduate degree in meteorology, atmospheric sciences or a related technical discipline
- Experience integrating various weather outlooks and briefing users on uncertainties and impacts.
- Experience forecasting one to seven-day ahead surface temperature and forecasting weather utilizing a wide variety of observational and model data, both at surface and upper air.
- Experience analyzing renewable power production (wind, solar, hydro) and how weather impacts those resources.
- Ability to work under pressure, adjust to changing priorities, and pay attention to details.
- Experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Experience working closely with and interfacing effectively and collaborate with peers, clients, management, and other organizations
- Extensive knowledge of NWS system and demonstrated experience using National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) products.
- Ability and experience with configuring and running WRF model.
- Experience performing statistical analysis and modeling.
- Experience using SAS, R, or other tools for statistical analysis and forecasting.
- Weather forecasting experience for California and the Western United States.
- Experience forecasting for conditions pertaining to or around wildfires.
- Experience with long-term (month ahead or more) weather forecasting.
- Electric/Gas Utility work experience.
- A broad understanding of power markets and the related regulatory requirements that govern SCE's participation in them by assisting strategy development to increase the value of SCE resources and lower customer costs.
- Fire weather forecasting experience.
- Experience preparing findings and presenting complex technical information to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Contact
Southern California Edison
P.O. Box 800
Rosemead
California États-Unis
www.sce.com
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