Project Manager - New Development

Southern California Edison; Tulare (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison in Tulare, CA is seeking a Project Manager - New Development to oversee residential and commercial new business development projects from inception to close. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage scope, schedule, and budget, and ensure safe, compliant execution.

The role requires strong communication, stakeholder influence, and risk management to drive on-time delivery across the SCE territory.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of experience in project management.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field; PMP credential preferred.
• Ability to integrate work across areas, manage risks and safety, and develop business plans.
• Experience managing multiple high-impact projects with tight timelines and diverse stakeholders.
• Strong analytics and problem-solving to drive data-driven decisions.
• Excellent communication with clients, residents, and cross-functional teams.
• Strong time-management and prioritization of many projects concurrently.
• Ethics, influence, leadership, and resilience; mentoring experience is a plus.
• Advanced proficiency in Word, Excel, Outlook; DM, Click, and SAP experience.

Responsibilities

• Manages one or more moderately complex projects with PM principles under constraints.
• Directs initiation, planning, execution, control, and closure for scope, schedule, budget.
• Leads projects by influencing stakeholders with independent decision-making.
• Collaborates with other PMs and leadership to drive projects forward.
• Manages planning, development, and execution of transmission/distribution projects.
• Drives milestones and reports on large projects including regulatory filings.
• Performs power flow and fault analyses to determine system impacts.
• Facilitates development plans, work packages, testing procedures, energization sequences.
• Protects assets and data, maintaining high standards of conduct and integrity.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Resource planning

Communication

Leadership

MS Office

Design Manager

Click

SAP

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

PMP credential preferred

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

Outlook

Design Manager (DM)

Click

SAP

Job description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a 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.

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

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 Tulare, 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.
• Travel up to 35% 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.