Engineering Lab Management, Engineering Manager

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

The Engineering Lab Management, Engineering Manager plays a critical role in managing safe, efficient, and scalable laboratory operations that support Southern California Edison’s technology development, testing, and demonstration activities. This position provides strategic and operational leadership across laboratory services, ensuring that lab environments, processes, and partnerships are aligned with organizational objectives and evolving business needs.

You will be leading a team that is focuses on developing, documenting, implementing, and maintaining holistic operational processes and policies that support collaboration across multiple departments and stakeholders. You will oversee the team responsible for the full laboratory project portfolio, including long‑term strategic initiatives, lab enhancement efforts, and internal and external Grid Technology Development projects, while ensuring consistency, safety, and compliance across lab operations.

The Engineering Lab Management, Engineering Manager also leads the team in stakeholder engagement and coordination activities, including managing third‑party laboratory services and supporting high‑visibility lab tours and demonstrations. This leader will drive operational excellence, strengthen external partnerships, and enhance SCE’s industry leadership in laboratory‑based innovation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong organizational and process development skills, with experience creating, documenting, and maintaining procedures, workflows, or governance frameworks that improve consistency, efficiency, and cross functional alignment.
• Demonstrated strength in project or program management, including planning, prioritization, execution, and tracking of complex initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Experience managing both capital and operations and maintenance (O&M) budgets, including planning, forecasting, prioritizing expenditures, and ensuring resources are aligned with business objectives and operational needs.
• Proven ability to lead and coordinate cross functional efforts, working effectively with engineering, operations, vendors, and leadership to drive outcomes without direct authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience preparing clear documentation, executive level summaries, and facilitating discussions across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to engage stakeholders and external partners, align expectations, and represent organizational capabilities in meetings, reviews, or site visits.
• Background working in structured, operational, or regulated environments where safety, consistency, and accountability are important, even if not laboratory specific.
• Experience in supporting engineering design and integration of various grid and edge technologies, e.g. energy storage, generators, microgrids, transformers, relays, sensors, etc.
• Strong understanding and technical capability to deliver advanced technology demonstration projects from concept to field deployment.
• Experience working hands on in lab environment for instrumentation, testing and validation of range of grid and edge technologies (e.g. energy storage, generators, microgrids, transformers, sensors).

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.
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• 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 Westminster, CA.  However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at Pomona, CA.
• Position will require up to 60% 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.

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.