New Business Project Management - Senior Manager of Transmission

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a New Business Project Management - Senior Manager of Transmission at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this role, you'll support an enterprise-wide organization spanning the management of a multi-million-dollar portfolio. Strategize and oversee a team managing complex projects, programs and customer funded projects. Be a change agent with an emphasis on continuous improvement while aligning with corporate strategic initiatives.

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

• Develops long-term vision and strategic roadmap for the project management competency. Provides strategic level (Region/Portfolio) direction to project controls engineers responsible for cost and schedule support. Drive adoption of innovative project management methodologies and approaches.
• Cultivates relationships with business partners and vendors to achieve operational excellence. Builds strong and collaborative working relationships with peers from project sponsoring and peer organizations: Engineering, Asset Management, Technical Planning, Region personnel, Transmission, Permitting, Local Public Affairs, and others as needed.
• Determines overall and Regional Targets. Responsible for rebase lining or adjustments to Targets. Collaborate with Capacity Planning group to ensure appropriate resources are in place to successfully manage Distribution Program work and to meet section and departmental goals and objectives. Directs project portfolio planning and ongoing optimization of resources to advance key initiatives.
• Collaborate with Capacity Planning group to ensure appropriate resources are in place to successfully manage Distribution Program work and to meet section and departmental goals and objectives. Heads a portfolio of the largest and most complex electric transmission/distribution projects.
• Acts in a senior leadership capacity during interactions with regulatory authorities and is a subject matter expert on regulatory environments for electrical transmission/distribution projects.
• Provides leadership and strategic direction for transmission infrastructure projects including new lines, substations, and network upgrades.
• Navigates and negotiates with regulatory agencies on project permitting, siting, and environmental impact assessments.
• Provides escalation support for various emergent issues across IPSEC.
• Provides strategic oversight of Distribution Capital Programs and commodities across Program Management to achieve the successful completion of work to unit and spend targets as well as a number of Tand D and corporate goals.
• 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

• Five or more years of experience supervising a team of direct reports and/or project management.
• Experience developing long-term vision and strategic roadmaps for the project management initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher; change management leader;
• Five or more years of experience with project or program management in substation, transmission or distribution;
• Experience providing strategy, direction, coaching and mentoring, performance management, and salary administration for staff.
• Experience developing and executing strategies and operational plans.
• Experience ensuring cross functional support and collaboration including resolving cross functional issues and obstacles.
• Experience ensuring appropriate resources are in place to successfully manage work and to meet goals and objectives.
• Experience executing strategies across IPSEC through effective project management and oversight.

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. (External Posting only)

• Position will require up to 50% traveling and being out in the field throughout 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.