Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become the Engineering Senior Manager, Substation Electrical Engineering at Southern California Edison (SCE) and help shape how the electric grid of the future is designed and delivered. You will lead a geographically diverse engineering organization, organized across four regions, responsible for the electrical engineering and design of more than 300 substation capital projects annually across SCE’s service territory. As a key leader within Transmission & Substation Engineering (TSE), you will provide strategic direction to engineering managers, technical leaders, engineers, and engineering partners while advancing our Best-in-Class vision for engineering excellence, safety, workforce development, digital innovation, and operational performance. You will champion Intelligent Design & Construction (IDC), engineering quality, cycle-time improvement, contractor performance, and cross-functional collaboration to help deliver the grid modernization, wildfire mitigation, reliability, and clean energy infrastructure that powers Southern California’s future.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline; advanced degree, Professional Engineer (PE) license, or equivalent advanced technical or leadership qualifications preferred.
• Ten or more years of progressively responsible engineering, utility, infrastructure, or capital project delivery experience, including demonstrated experience leading managers, engineers, and large multidisciplinary technical organizations.
• Demonstrated experience leading substation engineering, transmission engineering, utility design, construction support, or other complex electric utility capital infrastructure programs.
• Proven success leading engineering organizations accountable for safe, high-quality, and predictable execution, including engineering quality, schedule performance, resource management, contractor performance, and delivery of business commitments.
• Demonstrated success improving engineering productivity, quality, cycle time, and delivery performance through process improvement, technical governance, standardization, performance metrics, and data-driven decision-making.
• Proven ability to build and sustain high-performing organizations through coaching and development, succession planning, workforce planning, talent management, technical capability development, and leadership development.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale engineering portfolios, establish priorities, manage organizational capacity and risk, and balance competing commitments across multiple programs, stakeholders, and geographic regions.
• Demonstrated commitment to safety leadership through field engagement, proactive risk identification and mitigation, organizational learning, and fostering a culture of ownership and accountability.
• Demonstrated ability to influence, align, and collaborate across engineering, project delivery, operations, planning, construction, environmental, procurement, contractors, and executive leadership to resolve complex issues and achieve enterprise objectives.
• Strong strategic planning, project sponsorship, risk management, and governance experience, with demonstrated ability to translate organizational strategy into measurable engineering and business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to foster a psychologically safe, inclusive, and high-performing work environment that promotes constructive challenge, collaboration, innovation, employee engagement, accountability, and engineering excellence.
• Experience leading or sponsoring digital transformation within engineering organizations, including engineering automation, AI-enabled solutions, advanced design platforms, 3D modeling, digital twins, or Intelligent Design & Construction (IDC) capabilities.

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.
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• 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 Pomona, CA (PIV 1).
• Position will require up to 30% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory. 
• This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position – Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation.  Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties. 

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.