Manager of Construction Advisors

Southern California Edison (SCE)

$120K — $145K *
Real Estate & Construction
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in construction project management or advisor roles
  • Valid Class C Driver's License
  • Proven experience in leading and developing high-performing teams
  • Experience in managing utility or complex infrastructure projects
  • Expertise in the full construction lifecycle from planning to closeout
  • Strong risk and contract management skills
  • Degree in engineering, construction management, or related field with relevant certifications preferred

Responsibilities

  • Manage execution of major construction projects and ensure alignment with objectives
  • Provide guidance on constructability, logistics, and productivity analysis
  • Implement standardized project controls for cost, schedule, and change management
  • Oversee delivery schedules and construction performance metrics
  • Develop action plans for operational issues and ensure prompt resolutions
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and vendors to meet project milestones
  • Recommend policy changes to enhance efficiency and outcomes

Benefits

  • Hybrid work mode offering flexibility between remote and on-site work
  • Opportunity to work in a rapidly evolving sector with a focus on utility infrastructure
  • Support for continuous improvement and professional development
  • Consideration of qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records
  • Compliance with safety and cybersecurity regulations to protect sensitive data
  • Fieldwork involving travel within the organization’s service territory
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

  • Manages the execution of major construction projects, providing direct supervision to exempt employees and ensuring alignment with project objectives, timelines, and budgets.
  • Provides guidance on constructability reviews, logistics planning, and productivity analysis to optimize field execution and resolve operational challenges.
  • Implements standardized project controls across assigned projects, including cost estimating, scheduling, change management, and documentation procedures.
  • Oversees equipment and material delivery schedules, monitors construction performance metrics, and takes corrective action to maintain progress.
  • Develops action plans and procedures to address issues arising during general operations, ensuring timely resolution and minimal disruption.
  • Collaborates with internal stakeholders and external vendors to coordinate resources and ensure project milestones are met.
  • Recommends changes to policies and procedures affecting the immediate work group to improve efficiency and project outcomes.
  • Ensures the protection and proper handling of sensitive project data, financial information, and cybersecurity assets in accordance with company standards.
  • 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

  • Five or more years of combined experience performing or supervising construction project management or construction advisor/oversight roles supporting construction projects
  • Possess a valid Class C Driver's License.


Preferred Qualifications
  • People Leadership: Experience leading, coaching, and developing high-performing teams while promoting accountability, safety, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Utility Construction Experience: Experience supporting complex utility, generation, hydroelectric, power plant, substation, transmission, or comparable infrastructure projects with operational, outage, access, environmental, or regulatory constraints.
  • Portfolio and Project Execution: Experience managing diverse construction or capital project portfolios and improving processes to support safe, efficient, and consistent project delivery.
  • Construction Lifecycle Expertise: Demonstrated ability to provide owner-side construction advisory support through planning, constructability, sourcing, bidder evaluation, preconstruction, execution, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
  • Safety and Quality Oversight: Knowledge of construction safety, contractor oversight, hazard recognition, incident escalation, inspection planning, testing, quality control, nonconformance resolution, and closeout documentation.
  • Risk and Contract Management: Experience identifying and managing construction risks, constraints, change orders, time-and-material work, invoices, contractor documentation, milestone readiness, and mitigation actions.
  • Communication and Stakeholder Leadership: Strong communication, influence, and decision-making skills, with the ability to align project management, engineering, operations, safety, environmental, quality, supply management, contractors, and senior leadership.
  • Education, Credentials, and Technology: Degree in engineering, construction management, business, or a related field. Relevant credentials such as PE, PMP, CCM, OSHA/Cal-OSHA certifications, or construction quality certifications are preferred, along with proficiency in applicable project, contract, design-review, and document-management systems.


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 Rosemead, CA.
  • Position will require up to 20% 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.
  • Relocation does not apply to this position.

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