Program Manager, Business Resiliency & Weather Services (Advisor)
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Location: Irwindale, CA, US, 91702
Company: Southern California Edison
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Program Manager, Business Resiliency & Weather Services (Advisor) at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll lead the planning, coordination, and execution of strategic programs and initiatives that support Weather Services, emergency preparedness, wildfire mitigation, and operational resiliency across the enterprise. You will partner with technical experts, operational organizations, and senior leadership to drive cross-functional projects, improve processes, manage program governance, and deliver actionable insights that strengthen SCE's ability to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to operational risks.
As a Program 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
- Partners with key business units to develop and lead planning and response teams maintain or develop response plans in the event of severe but plausible operational disruptions.
- Supports business resiliency incident management activities within the crisis management processes and monitor lessons learned.
- Performs gap analysis on assessment findings to identify critical business processes, resources, and key personnel.
- Continuously improves and enhances business resiliency plans and recovery strategies. Collects, analyzes, and presents key metrics to senior management.
- Researches and identifies relevant requirements and procedures to implement best practices in crisis management and business resiliency.
- Supports the development and maintenance of key program documentation including the reporting and supporting material for risk committees and other governance groups.
- Monitors critical and important incidents, identifying the cause, remediation, future risks, and escalating to leadership as needed.
- 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 in business resiliency, emergency management or utility operations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Emergency Management, Engineering, Meteorology, Public Administration, Environmental Science, or related field.
- Experience with MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience leading complex, cross-functional programs or projects within utility operations, emergency management, wildfire mitigation, meteorology, risk management, or business resiliency.
- Demonstrated experience developing executive presentations, briefing materials, governance reports, and strategic communications for leadership audiences.
- Experience facilitating collaboration among technical experts, operational organizations, and corporate functions to achieve strategic objectives.
- Knowledge of utility emergency management, incident management systems, operational readiness, business continuity, or resiliency frameworks.
- Experience developing and monitoring key performance indicators, metrics, dashboards, and program reporting.
- Experience with data analytics, business intelligence tools, and Microsoft Office applications including Power BI, SharePoint, Teams, and the Microsoft Power Platform.
- Experience with AI technologies and productivity tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot) to improve business processes and operational effectiveness.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills with experience managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment across organizations with competing priorities.
- Exceptional organizational skills with high level of initiative and ability to effectively interface, collaborate, and partner with executives, senior management, clients and team members to help drive solutions and ensure stakeholder buy-in.
- Demonstrate sound leadership skills to set priorities, achieve desired actions and outcomes through facilitation, collaboration, negotiation and influence.
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.
- The primary work location for this position is Irwindale, CA.
- Position will require up to 10% travel (if applicable) and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
- 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.
- 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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