Principal Manager, Project Management
Date: Oct 20, 2026
Location: Rosemead, CA, US, 91770-3714
Company: Southern California Edison
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Principal Manager, Project Management at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you will be responsible for major non-electric project development, reporting to the Director of Corporate Real Estate and managing a capital budget of over $100 million annually.
As a Principal Manager, Project Management, 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
- Establishes and communicates enterprise-wide project management vision, policies, and objectives. Advises senior leaders on project investments, strategic initiatives, and benefits realization.
- Collaborates with executive leadership to align project portfolio to corporate strategy.
- Leads project management community of practice to share knowledge and enhance capabilities.
- Owns, maintains, and drives improved project performance metrics to ensure delivery of key business objectives.
- Ensures proper change control processes are understood and used by the project team.
- Oversees, motivates and monitors the performance of the team, ensuring quality and timeliness of assignments and roles, and addresses any performance gaps; Manages and coordinates all activities leading to the successful completion of large-scale, major strategic projects including project scoping, timelines, cost estimates and design.
- Establishes and leads project teams with agreed-upon roles and responsibilities; Manages all project activities and resources across the organization in a manner that maximizes efficiency and minimizes conflicts.
- Develops and defines project scope and objectives; Shapes project management strategy, goal setting and execution, ensuring clear visibility across key stakeholder groups including executive leadership.
- Creates budget forecasts and performs budget analysis to manage workflow and stay within budget planning; Champions the delivery of SCE's most critical projects on time, on budget and to scope, ensuring its aligned to the business objectives.
- 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 establishing enterprise-wide project management vision, policies, and objectives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced education, degree or certification in related facilities and/or asset management field
- Demonstrated experience managing large construction portfolios in excess of $100 million a year
- 10 Years managing people, budgets, and work scope
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills in building relationships and interacting with all levels of individuals, executives, managers, and contractors.
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 Rosemead, CA.
- Position will require up to 20% traveling 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.
