Design Manager

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Date: Jun 18, 2025

Location: Fullerton, CA, US, 92833

Company: Southern California Edison

 

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

 

Become a Design Manager  at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll lead a safety-first culture focused on facilitating a team that provides excellent customer service, provides high quality plans for Distribution customer driven and maintenance projects, builds constructive relationships with Operations and other internal stakeholders, supports team in learning opportunities, and develops employees to achieve their career goals.

As a Design 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

  • Reviews and approves work orders for accuracy and developing/revising business plans as appropriate, ensuring that all design, construction, and safety standards are met 
  • Supervises incoming projects to guarantee work is assigned to balance workload level between the design staff, and to meet design execution targets
  • Leads and coordinates design activities and contract resources to meet department goals while working with peer hub managers and organizations to maintain workload level across the department.
  • Manages employee performance and development by conducting performance planning reviews, mentoring employees, and carrying out disciplinary actions when necessary.
  • Reviews employee and hub performance related to approved budgets, objectives, core activities, quality, cost efficiency, and client responsiveness using various reporting means such as Project Tracker, Power BI, and similar reporting interfaces to help make informed decisions as well as provide regular performance report outs to Senior Leadership and the organization.
  • Supports and monitors the implementation of new work processes and methods, technology, and automation (e.g., proactive scheduling of design tasks), while meeting ongoing project demands.
  • Manages the selection, training and development, performance management, compensation, and discipline of subordinate personnel.
  • Establishes and enforces expectations related to safety, procedure compliance, corrective actions, and appropriate work behaviors
  • 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 Electrical Utility Distribution Design, Transmission Design or Distribution Line construction.
  • Possess a valid Class C Driver's License.

 

Preferred Qualifications

 

  • Three years of experience leading or supervising a team.
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business administration, or related technical field.
  • Experience supporting, operations, projects or programs across Transmission and Distribution within a utility organization.

 

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. 
  • This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation.  Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.
  • This position has an option for a 9/80 Alternate Work Schedule or 40hrs/5 days a week.
  • 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.


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