Powerline Trades Distribution Training Manager

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Date: May 16, 2026

Location: Chino, CA, US, 91710

Company: Southern California Edison

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Powerline Trades Distribution Training Manager at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll oversee the daily operations of SCE’s Distribution training school, leading instructors who prepare Groundmen, Apprentices, and new Journeyman Linemen for safe and successful careers in the trade. This role plays a pivotal part in shaping both the skills and culture of the next generation of linemen by setting high standards for safety, professionalism, and instructional excellence. Partnering with Distribution leadership, this manager drives continuous improvement to build a best‑in‑class training environment that develops the best of the best. As a Powerline Trades Distribution Training 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

  • Manages and analyzes budget to provide strategic recommendations to executive management for the T&D Training seat time and delivery budget.
  • Supports T&D Training by collaborating with peers to determine business objectives and ensures that the vision and goals of the organization are in alignment with the Company's goals.
  • Provides leadership to staff including counseling, training and development, salary administration, hiring selection and disciplinary action.
  • Explores and evaluates new technology and best practices to assess value for T&D Training's current continuous improvement efforts related to streamlining processes and creating consistencies across the T&D Training organizations.
  • Leads the centralized administrative and analytical effort by shaping and implementing the project management and business support strategy across various T&D Training groups.
  • Partners with EL&D, client organizations, Cost Management, peers and management to ensure alignment and high levels of productivity.
  • 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 combined experience performing or supervising power grid system operations or the design and delivery of related technical training.
  • Possess a valid Class C Driver's License.

 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience as a journeyman lineman
  • Knowledge of the SCE Apprenticeship program
  • Experience mentoring and leading others
  • Strong ethics, commitment to safety, and adherence to our Company values

 

 

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 AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.


Nearest Major Market: Riverside
Nearest Secondary Market: Los Angeles

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