Senior Manager, Grid Modernization & Distribution

Southern California Edison; Compton (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison is seeking a Senior Manager, Distribution Engineering (Metro West) to lead the SP&E Distribution Engineering organization in California. You will drive grid strategies, oversee an engineering roadmap, and deliver capital projects with safety, quality, and efficiency in mind.

In this hybrid role, you will collaborate with multiple departments and external stakeholders to advance strategic objectives, manage budgets, and develop talent while maintaining a strong safety

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience supervising a team and/or project management.
• Experience performing engineering work in operations, production, construction or maintenance environments.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related engineering discipline.

Responsibilities

• Leads a variety of engineering and business initiatives to develop grid strategies, determine how the grid is planned, designed, operated and maintained to operationalize company's strategy.
• Manages and prioritizes the engineering roadmap in collaboration with other departments; develops and implements strategies for improving execution efficiency.
• Leads, manages and supports the project engineering group and remains responsible and accountable for their team's delivery of small to large scale projects.
• Manages execution performance of their teams, identifying barriers, and prioritizing work for their teams to ensure projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budgets.
• Reviews and makes decisions on project plans, resource allocation, risk assessment, mitigation strategies, budgets, and resources to ensure timely and successful delivery of capital and strategic projects Oversee the development and implementation of a comprehensive project management framework to ensure efficient project execution, reporting, and delivery of goals within budget.
• Drives the adoption of digitalization and automation technologies to improve engineering processes, reduce manual effort, and enhance project outcomes.
• Leads the development and maintains a robust risk management strategy to identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with engineering projects.
• Develops goals and assigns projects/roles to employees that translate corporate strategic vision into actionable initiatives to delegate.
• Leads the development and implementation of cross organizational strategy, technology and safety program to ensure company advancement toward future vision and the well-being of employees and contractors involved in engineering projects.
• 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

Leadership

Strategic planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Southern California Edison is seeking a Senior Manager, Distribution Engineering (Metro West) to lead the SP&E Distribution Engineering organization in California. You will drive grid strategies, oversee an engineering roadmap, and deliver capital projects with safety, quality, and efficiency in mind.

In this hybrid role, you will collaborate with multiple departments and external stakeholders to advance strategic objectives, manage budgets, and develop talent while maintaining a strong safety