Principal Manager, Employee & Contractor Safety Northwest
Date: Oct 16, 2026
Location: Chino, CA, US, 91710
Company: Southern California Edison
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Principal Manager, Employee & Contractor Safety Northwest at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll leads a team responsible for strengthening safety performance across employee and contractor operations. This leader translates enterprise safety strategy into practical field execution by advancing effective standards, risk controls, organizational learning, and consistent safety leadership, helping ensure employees and contractors perform high-hazard work safely and successfully.
As a Principal Manager, Employee & Contractor Safety Northwest, 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 field safety strategies to mitigate hazards and improve controls to reduce risks to an acceptable level, working with teams in the facilities to plan drills and exercises to verify readiness.
- Creates, designs, evaluates, and communicates a clear field safety vision, direction, and strategy with employees and contractors and throughout the organization that motivates and influences others to commit to and support the strategic direction and vision.
- Develops, implements, and manages all Environmental, Health and Safety policies, procedures, and activities to ensure a safe work environment for all employees.
- Defines corporate field safety objectives annually and assists site and project teams in setting objectives. Leads the effort to develop and implement field safety strategies and programs that align with the organizational goals.
- Develops and oversees the delivery of field safety training programs to project teams, contractors, and other personnel.
- Drives environmental change management to ensure changes to field safety issues are proactively identified and addressed prior to implementation.
- Drives and monitors savings through Environmental, Health and Safety sustainability initiatives, promotes the standardization of processes and field procedures, and further operationalizes the function across the company.
- Serves in an emergency response role as part of the Company’s Incident Management Team in supporting crisis response. This role requires periodic on-call reporting during the day, night, and weekends as emergencies arise.
- 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 within electrical utility craft, safety, or compliance programs, activities, or systems.
- Possess a valid Class C Driver's License.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering, business, safety, or a related field.
- Knowledge of Cal/OSHA requirements and other governmental regulations applicable to the electric utility industry.
- Mental Health First Aid (MHFA), Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM), or comparable behavioral health and crisis response training.
- Strong knowledge of critical-risk management, safety management systems, Human and Organizational Performance, and organizational learning principles.
- Ability to convert incident, observation, and operational data into targeted field actions and sustainable safety improvements.
- Demonstrated success developing leaders, building accountable teams and establishing a culture of trust, learning, constructive challenge, and safety stewardship.
- Strong executive communication, judgment, and change-leadership capabilities.
- Experience leading safety professionals supporting high-hazard utility or field operations.
- Demonstrated ability to influence operational leaders, frontline employees, labor partners, and contractors without relying solely on direct authority.
- Certified Utility Safety Professional, or another applicable professional safety certification.
- Experience analyzing work methods and recommending practical improvements.
Additional Information
- This position’s work mode is on-site. The employee will report to an SCE facility or in the field location. 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.
- Position will require up to 70% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE Northwest service territory.
- Relocation may 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.
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