Become a Senior Manager of Distribution Project Management at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. The New Business Project Management (NBPM) Distribution Senior Manager plays a critical leadership role in turning customer commitments into successful project outcomes by driving safety, project predictability, proactive communication, and operational excellence. In this role, you'll bring together people, processes, and partners to remove barriers and improve the customer journey. What makes the opportunity exciting is the ability to lead meaningful change that customers and employees can directly experience.
As a Senior Manager of Distribution Project Management, 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- Develops long-term vision and strategic roadmap for the project management competency. Provides strategic level (Region/Portfolio) direction to project controls engineers responsible for cost and schedule support. Drive adoption of innovative project management methodologies and approaches.
- Cultivates relationships with business partners and vendors to achieve operational excellence. Builds strong and collaborative working relationships with peers from project sponsoring and peer organizations: Engineering, Asset Management, Technical Planning, Region personnel, Transmission, Permitting, Local Public Affairs, and others as needed.
- Determines overall and Regional Targets. Responsible for rebase lining or adjustments to Targets. Collaborate with Capacity Planning group to ensure appropriate resources are in place to successfully manage Distribution Program work and to meet section and departmental goals and objectives. Directs project portfolio planning and ongoing optimization of resources to advance key initiatives.
- Collaborate with Capacity Planning group to ensure appropriate resources are in place to successfully manage Distribution Program work and to meet section and departmental goals and objectives. Heads a portfolio of the largest and most complex electric transmission/distribution projects.
- Acts in a senior leadership capacity during interactions with regulatory authorities and is a subject matter expert on regulatory environments for electrical transmission/distribution projects.
- Provides leadership and strategic direction for transmission infrastructure projects including new lines, substations, and network upgrades.
- Navigates and negotiates with regulatory agencies on project permitting, siting, and environmental impact assessments.
- Provides escalation support for various emergent issues across IPSEC.
- Provides strategic oversight of Distribution Capital Programs and commodities across Program Management to achieve the successful completion of work to unit and spend targets as well as a number of Tand D and corporate goals.
- 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 experience supervising a team of direct reports and/or project management.
- Experience developing long-term vision and strategic roadmaps for the project management initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct people leadership experience managing high-performing project management, utility, or operational teams, with a demonstrated ability to develop employees and build organizational capability.
- Experience leading complex electric utility or infrastructure projects and portfolios, with accountability for scope, schedule, budget, risk, performance, and customer outcomes.
- Strong working knowledge of electric distribution operations and the ability to effectively partner across engineering, design, construction, operations, and other organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to improve customer experience through proactive communication, project predictability, issue resolution, and effective stakeholder management.
- Experience leading organizational change, process improvement, performance management, and data-driven decision-making in a complex operating environment.
- Exceptional communication, strategic thinking, and influencing skills, with demonstrated ability to align diverse stakeholders and translate business priorities into measurable results.
Southern California Edison
P.O. Box 800
Rosemead
California États-Unis
www.sce.com
