Civil Engineering (Land Development) Manager

Location: Hybrid in Pomona, California, US. Report to an SCE facility for a set number of days and work remotely on remaining days; employees are generally required to work and reside in California. Up to 10% travel and field work throughout the SCE service territory.

Salary: $161,700–$242,600 per year.

Company

hirify.global delivers and maintains electric-grid infrastructure and supports cleaner energy, safety, reliability, and innovation across Southern California.

What you will do

• Lead civil engineering for land development and site-civil support involving transmission lines, substations, rights-of-way, access roads, and related facilities.
• Set priorities across a diverse engineering portfolio, develop project strategies, allocate resources, and monitor performance.
• Oversee grading and drainage, hydrology and stormwater compliance, roadway and access design, erosion control, utility coordination, permitting, geotechnical interfaces, constructability, and construction or emergency-response support.
• Manage engineering employees, contract engineers, consultants, deliverables, quality, schedules, budgets, and design consistency.
• Develop engineers, establish team goals, assign roles, coach professional development, and improve engineering standards and work processes.
• Partner with Project Management, Environmental, Real Properties, Construction, Operations, Transmission Engineering, Substation Engineering, external partners, vendors, and contractors.

Requirements

• Five or more years of combined experience performing or supervising engineering work.
• Experience in operations, production, construction, or maintenance environments.
• Ability to protect physical, financial, cybersecurity, customer, proprietary, medical, and other sensitive information with high standards of conduct and integrity.
• Ability to pass a NERC/CIP Personnel Risk Assessment or Background Investigation and complete required training before obtaining unescorted access to assigned work locations.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• California Professional Engineer license in Civil Engineering, or ability to obtain one through comity.
• Experience leading and developing civil engineering teams, establishing engineering standards, improving work processes, and mentoring engineers.
• Civil land-development or site-development experience with grading, drainage, hydrology, stormwater, erosion control, access roads, paving, or utility coordination.
• Experience supporting electric utility transmission, substation, distribution, rights-of-way, or other large infrastructure projects.
• Experience managing engineering consultants and contract resources, including scopes of work, budgets, schedules, deliverables, and quality expectations.
• Experience coordinating with California agencies and permitting authorities, including CEQA, stormwater compliance, and environmental permitting.
• Experience using or overseeing AutoCAD Civil 3D, GIS applications, hydrologic or hydraulic analysis tools, and related civil engineering software.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with a defined onsite schedule and remote work on remaining days.
• Work on infrastructure supporting grid modernization, safety, reliability, and cleaner energy.
• Field work and travel of up to 10% across the SCE service territory.
• Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodation support are provided.