Clean Energy Associate Project Manager

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Clean Energy Associate Project Manager at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this role, you will work in the Commercial EV/Rule 29 group within Clean Energy Project Management (CEPM) in Transmission and Distribution and will be responsible for leading projects through design and construction for light, medium, and heavy-duty vehicle customers requesting service throughout the SCE territory. As the Electric Vehicle market continues to grow, light, medium, and heavy-duty EV customers continue to increase their footprint requesting new services or expansion of their existing services and require customer focus and support of their projects.

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?

Key Focus Areas

• Directs all tasks performed by the EV Construction Specialists and Sr Specialists including field verification requests, review documentation for new submittals to the planning department.
• Manages small to medium EV installation projects from inception to energization.
• Provides weekly/bi-weekly reports to customers and management to facilitate monthly conference calls to provide project status and address customer questions.
• Receives preliminary/final designs, facilitates customer approval and communication.
• Receive Preliminary/Final Designs from Design Hubs, facilitate customer approval and communication with Design Hub.
• Ensure permits and easements are secured and all work order requirements are met when scheduling projects for construction with Districts or Regional Hubs.
• Schedules customer side electrical construction and customer side civil construction.
• Track project updates in database to ensure project status is up to date.
• Provide EV updates at regional meetings to various levels of management.
• Build relationships with District and Regional scheduling contacts, Production Specialists, and Preconstruction Inspectors to ensure timely and successful project completion.

• Manages multiple work streams of one or more short-term projects with responsibility for results in terms of costs, methods and outcomes. Uses project management principles, tools, and techniques under time constraints, shifting priorities, and making decisions with support from leadership and/or Senior Project Manager
• Exercises latitude and judgement in developing plans, budgets, and resources, directing activities and actions, and determining deliverables
• Support simple to moderately complex projects and team goals by developing recommended course of action with support from leadership and Senior Project Manager. Develops and recommends course of action on projects in conjunction with the Project Manager
• Collaborates with peer Project Managers, department/division management, and other internal stakeholders to analyze simple to moderately complex projects and recommend courses of action
• Support management of 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
• Support achievement of milestones and report on small to medium transmission and/or distribution projects which may include designs, schedules, projects applications, compliance and safety documentation, regulatory filings, and local and state agency coordination
• Conducts the development and approval process for transmission line routes, right-of-way access, and environmental permits
• Implements safety protocols for ground crews and contractors working on live transmission system components and energized substation equipment
• 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.

• Five or more years of experience in project management or project support.

• Experience working on electric utility distribution projects, including new service, service upgrades, or distribution system enhancements.
• Background in distribution planning or service planning, including development or coordination of scopes of work, design packages, construction readiness, or energization activities.
• Proven ability to manage utility side construction projects that require balancing external customer expectations with internal utility standards, safety requirements, and regulatory obligations.
• Experience serving as the primary point of contact for external customers, including leading customer meetings, site walks, and communicating scope, schedule, risks, and delivery impacts.
• Experience delivering projects through the full lifecycle, from initial planning and design through construction and energization / in service completion.
• Familiarity with EV charging infrastructure projects, transportation electrification programs, or projects involving large customer load additions is strongly preferred.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with varying levels of complexity, stakeholders, and construction activity.

• 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.
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• 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.
• Position will require up to 50% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.

• Relocation does not apply to this position.