Engineering Principal Manager

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become an Engineering Principal Manager at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll lead a team of Senior Managers and employees, ensuring grid reliability and safety. Responsibilities include developing long-term grid solutions, sponsoring projects, and ensuring 24/7 field engineering support for safe operations and emergency restoration. Oversee technical studies, customer load analysis, and compliance with regulatory deliverables. Manager will align with SCE strategies, set annual goals, drive innovation, and foster high-performance cultures. They define priorities, establish KPIs, optimize processes, and adjust organization to meet evolving needs. As an Engineering Principal 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 efforts to drive innovative grid policy, architecture and technology roadmap development and implementation under aggressive deadlines to transform how the grid is planned, designed, operated and maintained to operationalize company's strategy. Responsible for annual strategies for ~$1 billion annually. Reviews and approves large impactful engineering processes and standards to ensure efficiency and quality, utilizing a variety of strategies and ensures appropriate resources are dedicated to the successful implementation of cutting-edge technologies.
• Documents goals, communicates direction, and delegates initiatives that design, development, and implementation of engineering projects in alignment with organizational goals and industry standards. Prepares testimony and may be a witness in GRC proceedings on behalf of SCE.
• Leads the development and execution of long-term strategic plans for the engineering department, aligning with the overall business strategy and objectives and key maintenance and engineering objectives. Develops and maintains KPIs to measure and track engineering department performance and project success.
• Ensures appropriate support is provided to the implementation of engineering standards, procedures, and best practices to optimize project outcomes.
• Develops and manages the engineering department budget, ensuring resources are allocated effectively to meet project needs and financial targets.
• 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

• Seven or more years of experience supervising a team of direct reports and/or project management.
• Experience performing engineering work in operations, production, construction or maintenance environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering
• Experience managing a team of direct reports
• Experience identifying process efficiencies, collaborating with stakeholders, and driving innovative initiatives to achieve long-term organizational goals.
• Experience in electrical transmission or distribution system planning or engineering

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 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.
• Relocation does not apply to this position.

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 (833) 343-0727.

Client-provided location(s): Ontario, CA

Job ID: Edison-5423

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-01-15T18:54:58