Planning, Principal Manager

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Planning, Principal Manager – Transmission & Telecom at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the Transmission & Telecommunications Design Planning organization across the service territory. This position oversees a geographically distributed team of approximately 100 SCE  employees and contract staff, with potential growth, responsible for planning, designing, and delivering sub‑transmission and telecommunications infrastructure work. This team supports a broad portfolio of work including new business customer requests, infrastructure relocations, maintenance programs, and capital execution. 

As a Principal Manager, you will drive performance across safety, quality, and productivity objectives while ensuring compliance with organizational standards, regulatory requirements, and auditable guidelines. You will partner closely with internal and external stakeholders—including Systems Planning Engineering, Transmission and Telecom Operations, IT, Project Management, Design and Field Asset Services, and telecommunications partners—to ensure work is effectively scoped, resourced, and transitioned from planning through execution.

As a Planning, Principal 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?

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience leading large, cross‑functional and geographically distributed organizations, ensuring compliance with safety, training, auditable guidelines, organizational standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Proven leadership capability with a strong people‑first approach, including selecting, developing, and advancing employees, reviewing workforce forecasts, and proactively addressing talent gaps.
• Experience overseeing employee and public safety, with a consistent track record of driving a strong safety culture while meeting operational and performance expectations.
• Strong strategic and business leadership skills, including developing and implementing strategic plans with broad organizational impact and prioritizing critical initiatives in complex environments.
• Experience applying project and program management techniques to manage interrelated work, including budget projections, scope definition, risk identification, mitigation, and delivery oversight.
• Working knowledge of transmission and distribution, and/or telecommunications planning, design, engineering and construction environments sufficient to lead technical teams, partner effectively with stakeholders, and guide informed decision‑making.

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. 
• Position will require traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory. 

Relocation 

• 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.