Geotechnical Engineering Project Manager

Lageoinstitute; Rosemead (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison (SCE) seeks an experienced Geotechnical Engineering Project Manager to oversee major construction projects, from dams to power plants, with significant financial and operational impact. The role involves leading design reviews, scheduling, and risk management, in a hybrid work setting in California.

Ideal candidates hold a Geotechnical or Civil Engineering degree, a P.E. license, and PMP certification, with 7+ years in engineering project management and strong

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of experience in engineering project management.
• Possess a valid Class C Driver’s License.

Responsibilities

• Oversee one or more moderate to mid-term projects or programs, ensuring cost and schedule objectives are met.
• Develop and manage engineering schedules, change control, and technical plans with leadership oversight.
• Lead design reviews and evaluate project documents for constructability and regulatory compliance.
• Coordinate internal and external stakeholders to support project progress and risk-informed decisions.
• Develop contract bid specifications with scope, requirements, and acceptance criteria.

Skills

Engineering project management

Driver's license

Stakeholder communication

Education

Geotechnical or Civil Engineering degree

P.E. License

PMP Certification

Tools

Regulatory compliance

Risk assessment

Job description

Job Description:

Become aGeotechnical Engineering Project Manager (Project Engineer) at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this In this role, you will oversee all technical aspects of major construction projects that support SCE’s fleet of power plants. These projects support facilities that range from dams in the Sierra Nevada mountains to combined cycle power plants in Redlands, diesel generators on Catalina Island, and more. These projects typically have high visibility and significant financial and operational impacts on the organization.

Responsibilities

• Manages the technical activities of one or more moderate, short to mid-term projects or programs with responsibility for results in terms of costs, schedule, methods and project objectives. May manage large, complex and high-risk projects or programs with oversight from senior leadership
• Exercises considerable latitude and judgement in developing technical plans, schedules, and resources, directing activities and actions, and determining deliverables. With oversight of leadership, develops strategy and business plans, objectives and initiatives for engineering projects and seeks approval from management in accordance with applicable policies, procedures and guidelines; with review of a senior manager or principal manager; leads the development, and management of the engineering schedule; leads technical change control process
• Decides appropriate methods, procedures for new projects with significant independence
• Engages with all levels of management and acts as a key consultant for both functional and business issues. Regularly contributes to materials for executive and senior management on project related issues and prescribed milestones for approval.
• Leads engineering design reviews and evaluation of technical project documents to identify gaps, errors, or areas for improvement. Reviews engineering drawings, specifications, and site plans to ensure constructability and compliance with regulations and identifies issues or gaps proactively
• Oversee development of project execution plans, procedures, testing protocols, and quality control programs that align with engineering requirements
• Facilitates integration of engineering design deliverables, reviews, drawings, models, specs, calculations into overall project execution plans
• Coordinate multiple internal matrixed and outside stakeholder input and technical deliverables to support the overall project progress. Apply technical knowledge and experience and engage SMEs to provide technical judgment and experience to enable risk-informed technical oversight of projects
• Develop contract bid specifications that include project scope, specifications, requirements, performance and acceptance criteria, etc. Ensure work scope is developed so that technical risk and value engineering decisions are made in a way that benefits the overall project and company needs
• 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

• Seven or more years of experience in engineering project management.
• Posses a valid Class C Driver’s License.

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Geotechnical or Civil Engineering required with an advanced Structural and/or Geotechnical degree preferred
• P.E. License
• PMP Certificate
• Utility power generation experience with background inCivil/Geotechnical engineering relevant to thermal and/or hydro power generation assets
• Experiencing managing the delivery of scope, schedule, and budget commitments by engineering design contractors

Additional Information

• This position’s work mode ishybrid.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 andreside 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.
• 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.
• Position will require up to 40% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
• 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.