Principal Manager, System Operations

Thomson Reuters Markets Espana SL.; Champagne (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Southern California Edison seeks a Principal Manager, System Operations to lead approximately 150 employees across critical transmission and distribution functions. You will oversee outages, field safety, and regulatory interfaces while driving operational excellence and customer reliability.

This hybrid role requires California residency and frequent field presence. The position emphasizes safety culture, data governance, and strategic leadership for SCADA/EMS-enabled monitoring and grid

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of experience supervising a team and/or managing projects.
• Experience managing field-oriented operations such as transmission, distribution, generation, substations, or strategic planning & design roles.

Responsibilities

• Oversees electric transmission system safely and reliably while controlling costs.
• Schedules outages ensuring safety for field personnel during maintenance.
• Plans and implements construction/maintenance of transmission facilities and equipment.
• Interfaces with regulators to ensure grid reliability and policy alignment.
• Manages transmission grid operations, outages, training, and asset performance.
• Oversees outage restoration to maximize customer restoration safely and efficiently.
• Develops and maintains training for employees and data governance for work.
• Protects sensitive data and assets with high standards of conduct.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Safety leadership

Regulatory interface

Team management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Operations Management

Master's/MBA preferred

Tools

SCADA

EMS

Job description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Becomea Principal Manager, System Operationsat Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. You will be accountable for ensuring the safe, compliant, and efficient and operation of the transmission and distribution system in support of SCE’s strategic priorities. As the Principal Manager, you will oversee a workforce of approximately 150 employees, including bargaining unit/represented personnel, with 3 direct reports responsible for overseeing over 30k switching programs, including both Repair (unplanned) and Maintenance (planned) activities aimed at improving worker safety, Operational Excellence, and customer experience. You will provide visible leadership in the field, reinforce a strong safety culture, and ensure operational excellence through proactive oversight of performance, work allocation, reliability improvement efforts, and customer commitments. 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?

Your work will help ensure SCE evolves its grid to meet the demands of a clean energy future. If you’re motivated by solving complex challenges and leading the transformation of critical infrastructure, this is your opportunity to help build the grid of the future.

Responsibilities

• Oversees the electric transmission system to ensure the grid is operated in a safe and reliable manner according to regulatory requirements, while minimizing costs to customers and the company.
• Manages the coordination and scheduling of system outages to ensure safety for all field personnel while working on electric utility equipment.
• Ensures successful planning and implementation of construction and maintenance of electric transmission facilities and equipment.
• Supports the development of transmission policy and interfaces with key state and federal regulators, to ensure the safe and reliable operation of electric transmission systems across short- and long-term planning horizons.
• Manages the transmission grid, including electrical operations and dispatch, outage planning, design, training, emergency management and asset performance.
• Oversees the execution of outage restoration and response by ensuring that the maximum numbers of customers are restored in the safest, most efficient manner.
• Develops and maintains the clearance process, including developing and implementing proper training for employees and implementing and maintaining initiatives consistent with industry best practices.
• Ensures proper data management for work executed and/or managed.
• 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 supervising a team of direct reports and/or project management.
• Experience managing field‑oriented operations such as transmission, distribution, generation, substations, contractor operations OR experience in a supporting role through strategy, planning & design, engineering, system operations, safety.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Operations Management, or a related field; advanced degree (Master's/MBA) highly preferred
• 10 or more years of experience in electric transmission, enterprise-wide grid, and systems operations & technology oversight
• Strategic collaboration with Balancing Authority, regulatory agencies to ensure alignment on grid reliability, operational readiness, evolving industry requirements and enterprise reliability objectives
• Provides strategic leadership and governance for SCADA & EMS‑enabled monitoring operations, driving system awareness, risk identifications, and oversight of critical activities essential to maintaining grid reliability
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide change management for major grid modernization initiatives, operational transformation, and large field workforce changes, ensuring operational readiness, stakeholder alignment, workforce adoption, and continued reliability performance.
• NERC-Certified Bulk Power and Transmission Operator credential or equivalent demonstrated experience supporting bulk power system operations

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.
• 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 30% 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 may 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.