Project Manager - New Development

Southern California Edison (SCE)

$108K — $130K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of project management experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, project construction management, or related field; PMP preferred.
  • Experience with full IPSEC project scope delivery.
  • Proven ability to manage multiple high-impact projects with tight deadlines.
  • Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills for data-driven decisions.
  • Effective communication skills adaptable to various stakeholders.
  • Strong time-management and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

  • Manage moderately complex projects using project management principles under tight deadlines.
  • Direct project initiation, planning, execution, control, and closure independently.
  • Lead projects to achieve team goals through stakeholder influence and independent decision-making.
  • Collaborate with senior leadership and peers to drive projects forward as a key consultant.
  • Handle electric transmission/distribution project planning and execution including infrastructure upgrades and maintenance.
  • Drive milestones on medium to large projects, ensuring compliance and reporting on documentation and design.
  • Conduct power flow and fault analysis studies to assess system impacts and requirements.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with flexibility for remote work days.
  • Opportunity for ongoing training and professional development.
  • Supportive environment fostering continuous learning and mentorship.
  • Travel opportunities up to 35% for fieldwork across the service territory.
Full Job Description
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
  • Proven experience in project management delivery of scope, schedule, and budget commitments while overseeing full IPSEC scope (Initiation, Planning, Scheduling, Executing, and Closing).
  • Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, project construction management, or a related field; PMP credential preferred.
  • Ability to integrate work across relevant areas, lead risks and safety appropriately, develop and execute business plans, manage information, and provide outstanding service to internal and external customers.
  • Experience managing multiple high-impact projects with tight timelines and various stakeholders with demonstrated proficiency in resource and project planning, decision making, and results delivery.
  • Exceptional business analytics and problem-solving skills to drive data-driven decision-making.
  • Effective communication with an adaptive style to collaborate effectively with clients, residents, cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
  • Strong time-management skills with the ability to organize and proactively prioritize a large volume of projects simultaneously.
  • Strong ethics, influence and negotiation, leadership, interpersonal skills, communication, and the ability to effectively handle stress and engage in continuous learning.
  • Experience mentoring co-workers, providing small team leadership, delivering on-going training as needed for peers and support personnel.
  • Advanced experience using Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook with proficiency using Design Manager (DM), Click, and SAP.


Additional Information
  • Work location is Tulare, CA.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
  • Position will require up to 35% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
  • Relocation does not apply to this position.

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