Senior Manager, Distribution Engineering (Metro West)

Southern California Edison•Compton, CA

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Distribution Engineering leads a high-performing organization delivering safe, reliable, customer-focused engineering solutions for Southern California Edison’s Metro West service territory. The role oversees the design, planning, and delivery of complex distribution infrastructure projects supporting reliability, resiliency, load growth, and grid modernization. It drives operational excellence, strategic execution, workforce development, and collaboration across Engineering, Planning, Operations, Construction, Environmental Services, Permitting, and external stakeholders. The position champions accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, and employee development to deliver effective customer and community outcomes. The manager leads engineering and business initiatives that shape grid strategy and how the grid is planned, designed, operated, and maintained. The role manages the engineering roadmap and project engineering teams, oversees project performance and resource allocation, and ensures delivery within scope, schedule, and budget. It also advances project management practices, digitalization, automation, risk management, and cross-organizational strategy, technology, and safety programs. The position is hybrid, with a required number of days at an SCE facility and remote work on remaining days; the details are discussed during the interview, and the work mode may change with business needs. The primary location is Dominguez Hills, with possible extended work at other locations including Santa Monica, Whittier, Long Beach, and South Bay. Travel and field work may be required up to 20% throughout the SCE service territory. Employees are generally required to work and reside in California unless otherwise noted. This is a NERC/CIP-impacted position requiring a Personnel Risk Assessment or Background Investigation before hire and specified training before unescorted access to an assigned work location and performance of necessary duties. The role includes responsibility for protecting company assets and handling sensitive information and customer data with integrity.

Requirements

At least five years of experience supervising direct reports and/or managing projects.
Experience performing engineering work in operations, production, construction, or maintenance environments.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
At least five years leading large engineering or utility organizations, including managers, engineers, and technical professionals, with accountability for engineering execution, operational performance, workforce planning, employee development, safety, quality, and business results.
Success managing organizations responsible for engineering execution, safety, quality, schedule performance, contractor oversight, workforce planning, and employee development.
Ability to lead large-scale engineering portfolios and balance competing priorities across programs, stakeholders, and geographic regions.
Experience improving engineering productivity, cycle time, engineering quality, and operational excellence through data-driven decisions and performance metrics.
Experience leading complex engineering portfolios through strategic planning, project sponsorship, portfolio governance, risk management, and collaboration with executive leadership, operations, construction, environmental teams, and external stakeholders.
Commitment to safety leadership through field engagement, risk identification, organizational learning, and a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
Ability to create a psychologically safe, inclusive, and high-performing environment that promotes collaboration, innovation, employee engagement, and engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

Lead engineering and business initiatives to develop grid strategies and determine how the grid is planned, designed, operated, and maintained.
Manage and prioritize the engineering roadmap with other departments and develop strategies to improve execution efficiency.
Lead, manage, and support the project engineering group; remain accountable for delivery of projects ranging from small to large scale.
Manage team execution performance, identify barriers, and prioritize work to deliver projects on time, within scope, and within budget.
Review and make decisions on project plans, resource allocation, risk assessments, mitigation strategies, budgets, and resources for capital and strategic projects.
Oversee development and implementation of a project management framework for efficient execution, reporting, and delivery of goals within budget.
Drive adoption of digitalization and automation technologies to improve engineering processes, reduce manual effort, and enhance project outcomes.
Develop and maintain a risk management strategy to identify, assess, and mitigate engineering project risks.
Develop employee goals and assign projects and roles that translate corporate strategic vision into actionable initiatives.
Lead development and implementation of cross-organizational strategy, technology, and safety programs.
Protect company physical, financial, and cybersecurity assets and ensure sensitive information and customer data are accessed and managed appropriately.