Transmission Planning Manager

Southern California Edison•Santa Ana, CA

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Southern California Edison is hiring a Transmission Planning Manager to perform analytical functions that support the successful execution and construction of SCE projects. The role oversees development and delivery of capital projects and initiatives for large external customers requiring interconnection with the sub-transmission or transmission system. The manager leads cross-functional teams across licensing, engineering, procurement, and construction, and works directly with external customers and their technical and project management staff to coordinate activities, align schedules, and meet customer needs throughout the project lifecycle. The position manages moderately complex projects from initiation through closure, including scope, schedule, and budget. Projects may include electric transmission and distribution work involving wildfire mitigation, infrastructure replacement, load growth, poles, line upgrades, maintenance, or installations. The role also performs complex power-flow and fault-analysis studies to assess transmission-line system impacts and requirements, and facilitates development plans, work packages, testing procedures, and energization sequences. The position is hybrid, with reporting to an SCE facility for a set number of days and remote work on the remaining days. The primary work location is the Santa Ana Service Center, though extended work at alternate locations across SCE’s service territory may be required. The role requires up to 25% travel and field work throughout the service territory. Unless otherwise noted, employees must work and reside in California. Relocation is not offered.

Requirements

Seven or more years of experience in project management.

Nice To Haves

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.
Ability to read and interpret 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 for 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 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.
Ability to integrate 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.

Responsibilities

Manage one or more moderately complex projects using project-management principles, tools, and techniques while handling time constraints and shifting priorities and making critical decisions with minimal supervision.
Direct project initiation, planning, execution, control, and closure for core project-management disciplines, including scope, schedule, and budget.
Lead simple to moderately complex projects and influence stakeholders within the department to deliver team goals, consulting leadership as needed.
Collaborate with peer Project Managers, department and division senior leadership, and other stakeholder departments to provide recommendations that drive projects forward.
Manage the planning, development, and/or execution of electric transmission and distribution projects, including wildfire, infrastructure replacement, load growth, poles, line upgrades, maintenance, and installations.
Drive milestones and report on medium to large transmission and/or distribution projects, including designs, schedules, project applications, compliance and safety documentation, regulatory filings, and local and state agency coordination.
Perform complex power-flow and fault-analysis studies to determine system impacts and requirements for transmission lines.
Facilitate development plans, work packages, testing procedures, and energization sequences.
Lead multiple projects simultaneously by monitoring status, reporting progress, and aligning activities and schedules for timely delivery.
Track and monitor materials and coordinate with the material coordinator on lead times.
Use project-management tools and systems, including C55, Ariba, P6, and SAS, to maintain project data and schedules.
Create and maintain project documentation, including version control, distribution, storage, and access management.
Partner with Public Affairs to develop public-involvement materials, talking points, and project presentations, and coordinate with local governments.
Use reports to monitor project completion and system closeout and help prevent project write-offs.
Attend project job walks.
Protect company physical, financial, and cybersecurity assets and properly access and manage private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other sensitive information with integrity.