Project data Analyst

Trident Consulting is seeking a " Project Analyst for one of our client in " Pomona, CA A global leader in business and technology services

Title : Project Analyst

Rate : $38/hr on w2

Location: Pomona, CA 91768
Hybrid: Onsite M & Tu

12+ Months contract

Day-to-Day Responsibilities/Workload

Responsible for supporting scoping and planning for internal and external inspection teams supporting multiple Distribution and Transmission programs, including detailed inspections in high-fire and non-high-fire areas, annual grid patrols, streetlight patrol surveys, infrared scanning, and intrusive pole evaluations.

Key program management, planning, and scheduling responsibilities include:

• Managing schedules for data collection and processing, contractor deliverables, quality assurance, risk assessment, and final delivery of inspection results.
• Leading meetings across all phases of the inspection process, from data collection through risk review and distribution.
• Developing, maintaining, and distributing progress reports covering inspection collection, processing, delivery, quality control, and risk evaluation.
• Coordinating communications and managing impacts among contractors and internal SCE stakeholders involved in inspections, data processing, and overall program support.
• Managing the inspection program s financial planning and execution.

Key Scoping & Planning responsibilities include:

• Scope Refreshes - Create scope packages/work orders taking all the necessary steps to ensure accuracy of scope ensuring all appropriate guidelines are met.
• Collaborate with SP&E and Inspections to improve scoping strategy (e.g., work order bundling, minimizing visits, 1-2-skip a few, etc.)
• Maintain and refine lessons learned and change control logs for planning/scoping process.
• Communicate and meet with stakeholders periodically to ensure feedback obtained and reviewed against existing/future planning efforts (i.e. pain point tracker).

Key Exception Processing responsibilities include:

• Preparation of weekly performance report, UTC Tracker, Customer Access Tracker, CROPS & Government Lands Tracker, etc.
• Mapping - Create .kmz and spatial joins in Excel to determine potential access issues related to CROPS, Government Lands, etc.
• Create work orders for released access issues and send them to vendors with notes regarding appointments, gate codes, special instructions, contact info, etc.
• Tracking and oversight of constrained inspections to actively mitigate the potential for non-compliant inspections and not meeting risk mitigation commitment.

o Drive down 'double dip' inspection charges for access issues.

o Assist in development and monitoring of data management tools to provide more timely and accurate status reporting to management.

o Identify follow-up actions required by various stakeholders in the inspection workflow.

• An additional resource can take advantage of the data management tools and process improvements being developed, to provide more timely and accurate status reporting to management and to identify follow-up actions required by various stakeholders in the inspection workflow.

Key Data Analysis responsibilities include:

• Performance monitoring and tracking to ensure completion of various scopes on a regular basis.
• Responsible for running regular weekly/daily reports, ad hoc reports internally and externally as well as any special analysis needed to resolve issues/process improvements, reports related to finance/cost analysis, supporting any issues that arise from contractors or internally such as data discrepancies.
• Identify data discrepancies through SAP, InspectApp, EZYViewer research using systems like SAS Enterprise, SAS VA, SAP, PowerBi, Python, WiSDM, Snowflake to:

o Report on historical performance (by structure, region, resource, etc.)

o Find sync issues

o Understand trends in survey results (by inspector, resource, type of inspection)

• Validate that inspections are populating in dashboards (SAS, Power BI) and follow through to resolution.
• Communicate with InspectApp/InspectForce team both internal to Inspections and IT regarding sync issues and tracking resolution.

Required Skills/Attributes

Knowledge & Skills

• data management (data structure and controls design, data querying, and report development)
• time management (manage resolution of work to align with workflow due dates and inspection due dates)
• comfortable engaging multiple SMEs across multiple organizations, presenting issues and potential solutions, and securing support and/or buy-in from stakeholders and support partners
• project tracking from issue ID, causal analysis, solutioning, through resolution of issue
• data visualization reporting and dashboard development

Software Proficiency

• MS Office Suite, SAS, SAP, PowerBI, SQL, Python, Snowflake
• SAP experience navigating work orders, maintenance plans, mdocs, FLOC/Equipment data)
• ArcGIS experience Joining different visual layers/maps (districts, FLOCs, circuits, hexbins, constrained areas) to create tables of data to work with more effectively