Transmission Engineering Manager

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become an Transmission Engineering Manager of the Northern Region team at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow.

In this job, you'll lead a team of engineers and technical specialists responsible for delivering engineering solutions that support the safe, reliable, and resilient operation, expansion, and modernization of SCE's transmission, subtransmission, and distribution line infrastructure. The manager provides leadership across a diverse portfolio that includes new transmission lines, generation interconnections, distribution long spans, infrastructure replacement, reliability improvements, and engineering support for operations and maintenance. The manager is accountable for portfolio performance and engineering execution, establishing priorities, strategically balancing internal and consulting resources, and ensuring commitments for scope, quality, cost, and schedule are achieved. The role provides technical leadership for line design and structural analysis, strengthens engineering standards and practices, and ensures work aligns with applicable codes, standards, safety requirements, and design criteria.

As a key cross-functional leader, the manager partners with project management, project development, construction, operations, planning, and other engineering disciplines to resolve complex technical challenges, proactively manage risk, and improve constructability and project outcomes. The manager uses portfolio insights and performance metrics to anticipate resource constraints and delivery risks, remove barriers, and drive improvements in cycle time, design quality, predictability, and execution consistency.

Equally important, the manager builds a best in class engineering organization by developing technical and leadership capability through coaching, mentoring, training, knowledge sharing, and succession development. The role fosters a culture of safety, accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement, while positioning the team to meet evolving business and infrastructure needs.

As Transmission Engineering 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

• Leads a select set of engineering and business initiatives to develop grid strategies, determine how the grid is planned, designed, operated, and maintained to operationalize company's strategy.

• Develops and maintains a project portfolio management system to prioritize projects, allocate resources, and monitor performance.

• Evaluates new technologies and methodologies to enhance project efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability, designing and implementing improvement projects and new systems to support site initiatives and improve operational efficiency.

• Establishes and maintains relationships with external partners, vendors, and contractors to support project delivery and innovation.

• Coaches engineering teams on professional development opportunities to enhance their skills and knowledge.

• Leads the development and implementation of a comprehensive strategy, technology and safety program to ensure company advancement toward future vision and the well-being of employees and contractors involved in engineering projects.

• Manages the engineering team that provides emergent and routine trouble-shooting support for plant technical needs. Manages various contract engineers and works with those individuals to ensure consistency and quality in design, delivery milestone dates, and cost.

• Leads the design and implementation of new equipment and cost-effective equipment modifications to help improve safety, reliability, and throughput.

• Develops goals for engineering team and assigns projects/roles to employees that translate Sr. Manager levels goals into actionable tasks.

• 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 engineering work.

• Experience in operations, production, construction or maintenance environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• California Professional Engineer (PE) license, or the ability to obtain one through comity.

• Experience leading, supervising, and/or developing transmission engineers or multidisciplinary engineering teams, including establishing consistent engineering practices and improving work processes across team's project portfolio.

• Seven or more years of technical experience in transmission, and/or substation engineering utilizing PLS-CADD, PLS-Tower, PLS-Pole, SPiDA, SAP2000, AUTO-CADD, SAG10 as designing tools

• Engineering experience with electric utility Distribution and Transmission Systems using California GO95 or NESC rules.

• Experience with design and analysis of lattice steel towers or other Transmission line support structures and/or transmission line projects

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including coordination with T&D Planning, T&D Construction, Environmental, Asset Management & Engineering, and/or CPUC regulators.

• Demonstrated experience managing engineering resources, consultants, budgets, schedules, scopes, deliverables, and quality expectations while driving project execution and innovation.

• Experience using online ArcGIS, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Copilot.

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 (https://www.edisoncareers.com/page/show/candidate-resources) 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 Pomona, CA (PIV 1). However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at alternate work location.

• Position will require up to 25% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.

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 [email protected] or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.