Underground Detail Inspector General Foreman

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Date: Aug 6, 2026

Location: Fontana, CA, US, 92336

Company: Southern California Edison

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become an Underground Detail Inspector General Foreman at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll oversee distribution crews including Lineman and Groundman responsible for detailed inspection and minor repair of underground assets on SCE’s distribution system. As an Underground Detail Inspector General Foreman, 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

  • Reviews daily construction plans and materials needs with crews and conducts site inspections to verify safe work methods are used.
  • Collaborates with internal and external customers regarding daily work activities and short- and long-term projects.
  • Enforces strict compliance with safety protocols and resolves any identified issues promptly and effectively. Ensures all work orders in the field align with standards and are designed per the Transmission Overhead
  • Construction, Distribution Design Standard, Overhead and Underground Construction Standards manuals. Ensures in-field and on-site adherence to company policies and environmental guidelines on the job site, following proper accounting procedures for all project materials and ensuring they are correctly accounted for in the work order.
  • Acts as a Duty Supervisor and responds to after-hours outage and emergency repair calls, supervising proper commissioning and testing prior to re-energization.
  • Ensures adherence to all aspects directly related to material management, as well as environmental guidelines relating to proper handling and disposal.
  • Provides applicable training and development opportunities to employees and crew members, facilitating training sessions and offering feedback as appropriate.
  • 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

  • One or more years of combined experience performing or supervising underground and overhead construction, maintenance, operation of the electrical distribution system (including outages and switching procedures).
  • Possess a valid Class C Driver's License.

 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience coordinating and collaborating with local District stakeholders to ensure adequate staffing of UDI crews in respective locations.  Knowing the fundamentals of electricity, electrical circuitry, and operation of electrical equipment.  
  • Ensuring all inspection orders are met timely with inspection timelines, asset corrections are submitted timely, and that time is utilized efficiently and effectively by crews.  Ensure that crews inspect and repair according to external compliance rules and standards, and internal construction standards and practices e.g. Distribution Design Standard and Underground Construction Standards manuals.
  • Experience conducting Gatekeeping activities, including quality control and screening of repair notifications  
  • Dedication to working safely and skillfully. 
  • Great at giving instructions in written, oral, or diagrammatic form. 
  • Experience with State General Orders 95,  128, and 165
  • Ability to collaborate and work well with others. 

 

 

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. 
  • The primary work location for this position is Foothill.  However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time throughout the SCE service territory
  • Position will require 50% or more traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory. 
  • 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: Fontana
Nearest Secondary Market: Los Angeles

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