New Business Project Manager - New Development

Southern California Edison; Pomona (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison is seeking a New Business Project Manager - New Development to oversee residential and commercial development projects from inception to close. The role requires managing scope, schedule, and budget, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring regulatory and safety compliance across transmission/distribution initiatives.

The position is hybrid in Pomona, CA, with up to 35% travel, a focus on data-driven decisions, and collaboration with stakeholders to

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of experience in project management.
• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, project construction management, or a related field; PMP credential preferred.
• Ability to integrate work across relevant areas, lead risks and safety appropriately, develop and execute business plans, manage information, and provide outstanding service to internal and external customers.
• Experience managing multiple high-impact projects with tight timelines and various stakeholders with demonstrated proficiency in resource and project planning, decision making, and results delivery.
• Exceptional business analytics and problem-solving skills to drive data-driven decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Manages one or more moderately complex projects effectively using project management principles, tools, and techniques under time constraints, shifting priorities, and making critical decisions with minimal supervision.
• Directs project initiation, planning, execution, control, and closure for core disciplines of project management (scope, schedule, and budget) independently.
• Leads simple to moderately complex projects and deliver on team goals by influencing stakeholders within the department and exercising independent decision making, with consultation from leadership as needed.
• Collaborates with peer Project Managers, department/division senior leadership, and other stakeholders departments as a key consultant to provide recommendations to drive projects forward.
• Manages planning, development, and/or execution of electric transmission/distribution projects, which may include but is not limited to, wildfire, infrastructure replacement, load growth, poles, line upgrades, maintenance, or installations.
• Drives milestones and reports on medium to large transmission and/or distribution projects which may include designs, schedules, projects applications, compliance and safety documentation, regulatory filings, and local and state agency coordination.
• Performs complex power flow and fault analysis studies to determine system impacts and requirements for transmission lines.
• Facilitates the progress of development plans, work packages, testing procedures, and energization sequences.
• 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.

Skills

Project management

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Analytical skills

Leadership

Time management

Mentoring / team leadership

Negotiation

Problem solving

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/engineering/project management

PMP credential

Tools

Design Manager (DM)

Click

SAP

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Outlook

Job description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a New Business Project Manager - New Development at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this role, you are responsible for managing residential and commercial new business development projects from inception to close, throughout the SCE territory. Your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and build cleaner air for everyone.

As a New Business Project Manager - New Development, 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

• Manages one or more moderately complex projects effectively using project management principles, tools, and techniques under time constraints, shifting priorities, and making critical decisions with minimal supervision.

• Directs project initiation, planning, execution, control, and closure for core disciplines of project management (scope, schedule, and budget) independently.

• Leads simple to moderately complex projects and deliver on team goals by influencing stakeholders within the department and exercising independent decision making, with consultation from leadership as needed.

• Collaborates with peer Project Managers, department/division senior leadership, and other stakeholders departments as a key consultant to provide recommendations to drive projects forward.

• Manages planning, development, and/or execution of electric transmission/distribution projects, which may include but is not limited to, wildfire, infrastructure replacement, load growth, poles, line upgrades, maintenance, or installations.

• Drives milestones and reports on medium to large transmission and/or distribution projects which may include designs, schedules, projects applications, compliance and safety documentation, regulatory filings, and local and state agency coordination.

• Performs complex power flow and fault analysis studies to determine system impacts and requirements for transmission lines.

• Facilitates the progress of development plans, work packages, testing procedures, and energization sequences.

• 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 project management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience in project management delivery of scope, schedule, and budget commitments while overseeing full IPSEC scope (Initiation, Planning, Scheduling, Executing, and Closing).

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, project construction management, or a related field; PMP credential preferred.

• Ability to integrate work across relevant areas, lead risks and safety appropriately, develop and execute business plans, manage information, and provide outstanding service to internal and external customers.

• Experience managing multiple high-impact projects with tight timelines and various stakeholders with demonstrated proficiency in resource and project planning, decision making, and results delivery.

• Exceptional business analytics and problem-solving skills to drive data-driven decision-making.

• Effective communication with an adaptive style to collaborate effectively with clients, residents, cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

• Strong time-management skills with the ability to organize and proactively prioritize a large volume of projects simultaneously.

• Strong ethics, influence and negotiation, leadership, interpersonal skills, communication, and the ability to effectively handle stress and engage in continuous learning.

• Experience mentoring co-workers, providing small team leadership, delivering on-going training as needed for peers and support personnel.

• Advanced experience using Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook with proficiency using Design Manager (DM), Click, and SAP.

Additional Information

• Work location is Pomona, CA.

• 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.

• 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 35% 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 [e-mail] or [phone] and select option 2.