What are the responsibilities and job description for the Emerging Technical Acquisition & Implementation Sr. Project Manager position at Southern California Edison?
Pay Range: $165,800.00 -$248,800.00
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Emerging Technical Acquisition & Implementation Sr. Project Manager at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll play a pivotal role to help shape SCE’s long-term strategy by aligning technology needs with emerging solutions from vendors, startups, technologists, advisory groups, and professional memberships. We seek to implement these solutions by demonstrating breakthrough technologies, actively engaging with industry leaders, and securing new funding opportunities.
As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for identifying, acquiring, and coordinating early stage deployment of technologies that advance SCE’s strategic priorities. You will collaborate closely with internal teams, external technology vendors, startups, and research organizations to explore innovative solutions, run demonstrations or small-scale deployment programs, and showcase real-world capabilities that can transform our grid. The ideal candidate is results-driven with a deep understanding of technology trends in the utility sector and a passion for driving grid innovation through hands-on engagement and execution.
As a Emerging Technical Acquisition & Implementation Sr. Project 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
- Manages activities of one or more large, long-term projects or portfolio of related projects with responsibility for results in terms of costs, methods and outcomes
- Develops business plans, objectives and initiatives for the organization
- Provides inputs to organizational objectives and policies and ensures delivery of results
- Engages regularly with senior management as a key consultant on critical business issues
- Establishes, oversees and enhances stage-gate governance processes for emerging technology portfolio management, prioritization, and funding
- Develops technology roadmaps aligned to business goals and lead adoption of emerging tech capabilities across the organization
- Leads complex, multi-phase implementation programs for new enterprise systems, infrastructure, and smart grid technologies
- Oversees systems integrations, data migrations, and interfaces between emerging tech platforms and legacy systems.
- 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
- Ten or more years of experience in technology project management.
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, computer science, or other business-related discipline (including liberal arts majors)
Experience with utility technology needs, including strategic objectives and areas of investment focus
Experience responding to regulatory activities
Experience delivering/developing technical information to a non-technical audience as well as to senior leadership
Experience in corporate strategy, strategic planning or strategy/management consulting
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.
- 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.
At SCE, we celebrate our differences. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected 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.
Salary : $165,800 - $248,800
