Underground General Foreman Supervisor

Southern California Edison (SCE); Monrovia (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison is seeking an Underground General Foreman Supervisor to lead distribution crews responsible for installing, maintaining, and repairing underground and overhead systems. You’ll oversee field operations, enforce safety, coordinate with customers, and respond to outages after hours.

This on-site leadership role requires experience in underground and overhead construction, a valid driver’s license, and a commitment to safe, compliant work while mentoring teammates.

Qualifications

• Experience supervising underground and overhead construction and distribution operations.
• Valid Class C Driver's License is required.

Responsibilities

• Reviews daily construction plans with crews and conducts site inspections for safe work methods.
• Collaborates with customers on daily activities and long-term projects.
• Enforces safety protocols and ensures field work aligns with standards and policies.
• Manages materials, field records, and work orders per manuals and accounting rules.
• Acts as Duty Supervisor for after-hours outage responses and repairs.
• Ensures environmental guidelines and proper handling of project materials.
• Provides training and development opportunities to crews, delivering feedback as appropriate.
• Protects company assets and sensitive information with integrity.

Skills

Underground construction experience

Overhead construction supervision

Electrical distribution knowledge

Safety leadership

Effective instruction and coaching

Job description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become an Underground General Foreman Supervisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll oversee distribution crews responsible for installing, removing, maintaining, and repairing underground distribution and communication systems. As an Underground General Foreman Supervisor, 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

• Reviews daily construction plans and materials needs with crews and conducts site inspections to verify safe work methods are used.
• Collaborates with internal and external customers regarding daily work activities and short- and long-term projects.
• Enforces strict compliance with safety protocols and resolves any identified issues promptly and effectively. Ensures all work orders in the field align with standards and are designed per the Transmission Overhead
• Construction, Distribution Design Standard, Overhead and Underground Construction Standards manuals. Ensures in-field and on-site adherence to company policies and environmental guidelines on the job site, following proper accounting procedures for all project materials and ensuring they are correctly accounted for in the work order.
• Acts as a Duty Supervisor and responds to after-hours outage and emergency repair calls, supervising proper commissioning and testing prior to re-energization.
• Ensures adherence to all aspects directly related to material management, as well as environmental guidelines relating to proper handling and disposal.
• Provides applicable training and development opportunities to employees and crew members, facilitating training sessions and offering feedback as appropriate.
• 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

• One or more years of combined experience performing or supervising underground and overhead construction, maintenance, operation of the electrical distribution system (including outages and switching procedures).
• Possess a valid Class C Driver's License.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowing the fundamentals of electricity, electrical circuitry, and operation of electrical equipment.
• Dedication to working safely and skillfully.
• Great at giving instructions in written, oral, or diagrammatic form.
• Experience with State General Orders 95 and 128.
• Ability to collaborate and work well with others.

Additional Information

• This position's work mode is On-Site. The employee will report to an SCE facility or in the field location. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
• 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 10% 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 is 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.