Senior Project Manager - Utility Construction

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Senior Project Manager - Utility Construction at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this role, you’ll oversee complex, high visibility Transmission & Distribution projects that strengthen and expand the electric grid. The role blends technical leadership, strategic problem solving, and cross functional collaboration—including partnering with customers and internal and external stakeholders to plan and deliver equipment relocations. It’s exciting because the work leaves a lasting, visible impact on how energy is delivered to communities every day.

As a Senior Project Manager - Utility Construction, 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

- Manages high impact, strategic projects effectively using project management principles, tools, and techniques under time constraints, shifting priorities, and making critical decisions, providing direction to supporting team members.

- Directs project initiation, planning, execution, control, and closure for core disciplines of project management (scope, schedule, and budget) independently and provides guidance/mentorship to subordinate Project Managers/Associate Project Managers.

- Leads moderate to highly complex projects and delivers on strategic objectives by influencing stakeholders across multiple departments and exercising independent decision making, with limited consultation from leadership.

- Collaborates with Project Managers, department/division senior and executive leadership, and other stakeholders internal and external to the company as a key consultant to provide recommendation and make critical decisions that that have broad impacts across multiple organizations.

- 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 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.

- Leads technical standards, specifications, and architecture that optimize system reliability, efficiency, capacity, resilience, and asset management.

- Oversees technology integration efforts including new SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems, digital substations, automation, and advanced grid analytics platforms.

- 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

- Ten or more years of experience in project management.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience managing multi-year contract-driven projects involving large teams to coordinate with internal departments, government agencies and large customers.

- Experience working with external and internal stakeholders on complex issues related to Law, Regulatory, Environmental, EMF, and other issues.

- Direct accountability for forecasting, estimating, and managing overruns or true‑ups within monthly and annual capital budget forecasting.

- Experience with state, federal and special funding sources and compliance requirements.

- Provide oversight, mentoring, training, and technical oversight to Project Managers and Project Support Staff.

- Planning, Engineering, and/or Construction Management background with experience navigating conflicting interests, permitting, land rights, or jurisdictional constraints.

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.

- 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.

- The primary work location for this position is Santa Ana Regional Office.

- Position will require up to 60% 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’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 AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.