Transmission Program Manager - Hybrid, Impactful Projects

Southern California Edison; Ventura (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Southern California Edison is seeking a Transmission Project Manager to lead the development and delivery of capital projects in the service territory. You will oversee cross-functional teams across engineering, procurement, licensing, and construction, coordinating with external customers to align schedules and ensure project success.

The role emphasizes complex project management, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and data analysis using tools like C55, Ariba, and P6.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of experience in project management.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field.
• PMP certification.
• Experience in Planning or Construction, with an Electric Utility.
• Experience reading and interpreting Construction Maps and Plans.
• Experience in Construction Project Management.
• Experience leading large capital projects, including planning and coordinating multiple deliverables; preparing presentation materials, agendas, and meeting minutes; monitoring and reporting project status; and coordinating activities to ensure timely delivery.
• Experience creating and editing reports, graphs, and presentations, converting information between formats, generating non-standard reports, and maintaining records, logs, document files, and databases used to monitor, track, and trend project costs, resources, schedules, and status.
• Experience with SharePoint, BI Dashboards, and Data Analytics.
• Experience with the Microsoft Office suite, including CoPilot.
• Experience integrating work across functions, manage risks appropriately, develop and execute business plans, distill and communicate information effectively, and provide excellent service to internal and external customers.

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

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk management

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Business Administration, Management, Finance, Engineering, or a related field

PMP Certification

Tools

C55

Ariba

P6

SAS

SharePoint

BI Dashboards

Data Analytics

Microsoft Office

Job description

Southern California Edison is seeking a Transmission Project Manager to lead the development and delivery of capital projects in the service territory. You will oversee cross-functional teams across engineering, procurement, licensing, and construction, coordinating with external customers to align schedules and ensure project success.

The role emphasizes complex project management, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and data analysis using tools like C55, Ariba, and P6.