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Transmission Project Manager

  • Job ID: 8650
  • Job Family: Transmission & Distribution
  • Location: Ventura, CA, US
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  • Pay: $143,900 – $215,800
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Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Transmission Project Manager at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this role, you will perform the analytical functions essential to the successful execution and construction of SCE projects. The Project Manager oversees the development and delivery of capital projects, as well as initiatives driven by large external customers requiring interconnection with the sub‑transmission or transmission system. You will lead cross‑functional teams across SCE—including licensing, engineering, procurement, and construction—to move projects from planning through execution. You will interface directly with external customers and their technical and project management staff to coordinate activities, align schedules, and ensure customer needs are met throughout the project lifecycle.

Focus of Role:

  • Lead multiple projects simultaneously by monitoring status, reporting progress, and aligning activities and schedules for timely delivery.
  • Tracking and monitoring materials and coordinating with the material coordinator on lead times.
  • Utilizing project management tools and systems (e.g., C55, Ariba, P6, SAS) to maintain project data and schedules.
  • Creating and maintaining project documentation, including version control, distribution, storage, and access management.
  • Partnering with Public Affairs to develop public involvement materials, talking points, and project presentations, and coordinating with local governments.
  • Using multiple reports to monitor project completion and system closeout to help prevent project write‑offs.
  • Attending project job walks.

As a Transmission Project Manager, 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 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.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Seven or more years of experience in project management.

 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business Administration, Management, Finance, Engineering, or a related field.
  • PMP Certification and/or Project Management Certificate.
  • Experience in Planning or Construction, with an Electric Utility. 
  • Expereince and ability 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.

 

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 Ventura Regional Office. However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at alternate work locations through the SCE service territory.
  • Position will require up to 25% 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.

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